Director Keith J Crocker's loving ode to trash cinema has a carnival ape "escaping" from Lampini(..the ape's trainer), murdering people who caused his master emotional distress. But, along the way other innocent people find themselves victims of the deranged ape's bloody rampage. A despicable, repulsive, racist detective targets a black man as his suspect despite suggestive reasons he might not be the one behind the murders. Will the black suspect be able to clear his name? Or, will the obsessive racism of the detective, whose blind hate blurs his abilities to perform his duty, cause this poor guy unneeded duress?
Shot on Super 8, Crocker spent a great while putting his little exploitation flick together. I think that I personally would've preferred Crocker just shot The Bloody Ape as a silent film because there would be sequences of dialogue between the two detectives where the audio would distort as if the sound recording was put on a flawed cassette tape. I thought Crocker's murder sequences, as an example, were effective because he chose to shoot them essentially without dialogue you could hear, playing some sort schlocky score which punctuates the outrageous gratuitous carnage.
There's a loud, very unrestrained vocal message, I thought, in the dialogue which is not the least bit subtle, regarding a racial disconnect between various people in this distinctive location in Long Island. Crocker doesn't hold anything back in regards to his characters' repellent natures.
Plenty of gore and an abundance of nudity, mostly shot in silent, with the music overlapping as the ape attacks naked women, scalping one victim after slicing her throat, viciously assaulting one in the shower, and raping a third before opening up her stomach, removing her guts among other organs.
One victim is run over, another decapitated(..with Crocker showing blood squirting from the neck wound), with a head squished under a car tire! And, one could not forget the castration! I felt like, above all, Crocker's movie resembles a HGL production, and I'm sure he'd take that as a compliment. The film's minuscule budget shows and that might work against most, but the Super 8 film used by Crocker, I felt actually gave The Bloody Ape a unique look and feel. I think Crocker is very akin to another no-budget New York filmmaker, Nathan Schiff(The Long Island Cannibal Massacre). If you are looking for a film with polish and style, I suggest looking elsewhere, because The Bloody Ape doesn't even attempt gloss or beauty, it's ugly and harsh, which means it succeeds in capturing exactly what it set out to do..
The cast, under ridiculous costumes which aren't the least bit realistic(..such as Reis detective, under as fake a wig and beard you'd ever see, and Crocker as a Hasidic Jew), have a field day in their roles, going as far in bad taste as the material will let them.
Shot on Super 8, Crocker spent a great while putting his little exploitation flick together. I think that I personally would've preferred Crocker just shot The Bloody Ape as a silent film because there would be sequences of dialogue between the two detectives where the audio would distort as if the sound recording was put on a flawed cassette tape. I thought Crocker's murder sequences, as an example, were effective because he chose to shoot them essentially without dialogue you could hear, playing some sort schlocky score which punctuates the outrageous gratuitous carnage.
There's a loud, very unrestrained vocal message, I thought, in the dialogue which is not the least bit subtle, regarding a racial disconnect between various people in this distinctive location in Long Island. Crocker doesn't hold anything back in regards to his characters' repellent natures.
Plenty of gore and an abundance of nudity, mostly shot in silent, with the music overlapping as the ape attacks naked women, scalping one victim after slicing her throat, viciously assaulting one in the shower, and raping a third before opening up her stomach, removing her guts among other organs.
One victim is run over, another decapitated(..with Crocker showing blood squirting from the neck wound), with a head squished under a car tire! And, one could not forget the castration! I felt like, above all, Crocker's movie resembles a HGL production, and I'm sure he'd take that as a compliment. The film's minuscule budget shows and that might work against most, but the Super 8 film used by Crocker, I felt actually gave The Bloody Ape a unique look and feel. I think Crocker is very akin to another no-budget New York filmmaker, Nathan Schiff(The Long Island Cannibal Massacre). If you are looking for a film with polish and style, I suggest looking elsewhere, because The Bloody Ape doesn't even attempt gloss or beauty, it's ugly and harsh, which means it succeeds in capturing exactly what it set out to do..
The cast, under ridiculous costumes which aren't the least bit realistic(..such as Reis detective, under as fake a wig and beard you'd ever see, and Crocker as a Hasidic Jew), have a field day in their roles, going as far in bad taste as the material will let them.