Review #224: King Kong (1933)
This review was originally written in October 2022. Gabe's 100 Bucket List Horror Films Review #78: King Kong (1933) Believe it or not, I've never seen ANY King Kong movie until now. My only frame of reference for it was the part that got parodied on the Simpsons (the part where he escapes the theater in New York and climbs the Empire State building), which surprisingly-but-not-that-surprisingly turned out to only be the final fifteen minutes of this 1-hour-40 film. This is probably going to be a more scattered review than usual, so I'll get the plot out there: Denham, a famous filmmaker, has chartered a ship to take him to a mysterious island for... some reason (he wants to shoot a scene there but if his intention wasn't to see the island's unique fauna I don't know why he didn't just go somewhere less remote) and he brings along Ann, a woman he picked up on the street for being hot. On the island they discover a secluded tribe of people who kidnap Ann and ...