La horripilante bestia humana (1969)

User Rating:

4.8/10   

Director:

René Cardona

Writers:

René Cardona Jr. (story)
René Cardona (story)

Release Date:

1972 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Tagline:

Half Man, Half Beast, ALL HORROR!

Plot:

This cheap Mexican horror film is a remake of Cardona's Doctor of Doom (1962), spiced with nudity, medical footage...

Plot Keywords:

Wrestling | Gorilla | Nudity | Heart Transplant | Medical Footage

Cast

José Elías Moreno	...	Dr. Krallman
Carlos López Moctezuma	...	Goyo
Armando Silvestre	...	Lt. Arturo Martinez
Norma Lazareno	...	Lucy Ossorio
Agustín Martínez Solares	...	Julio Krallman (as Agustin Mtz. Solares)
Javier Rizo
Gerardo Zepeda		(as Gerardo Cepeda)
Noelia Noel	...	Elena Gomez
Gina Morett	...	Woman in shower

Also Known As:

Gomar: The Human Gorilla
Horror and Sex
Horror y sexo (racier version)
Night of the Bloody Apes (USA)

Runtime:

USA:83 min (dubbed version) | Mexico:81 min

Country:

Mexico

Language:

Spanish

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:R | UK:(Banned) (1984-1999) | UK:18 (re-rating, uncut) | UK:X (original rating) (cut)

Filming Locations:

Chapultepec Park, Mexico City, México D.F., Mexico

Company:

Cinematográfica Calderón S.A.

Trivia:

Features footage of an actual human heart transplant operation in two separate scenes.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When the girl is attacked in the park, the fake "grass" is accidently pushed aside, revealing the hard studio floor beneath.

Quotes:

Dr. Arturo Martinez: It's more probable that of late more and more you're watching in your television many of those pictures of terror.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in The Bloody Ape (1997) (V)

Check it out!!!

I must disagree with other critics here. This is a marvelous Mexican exploitation movie. One problem with the translated title, however, is that there is only one ape in the movie, not two, and he dies early on after having his heart transplanted to a human. Thereafter, a man-ape assumes the role of movie-monster, so he's not fully a gorilla. Apes?? Anyway, much of the movie was made to titilate Mexican male viewers in the era of the movie's release, 1972. The ape-man has a penchant for chasing voluptuous Mexican ladies and tearing their blouse and bra off. For some reason he also likes to rip the heads off of human males. Surely this is the consequence of his animal heart! The movie also features the obligatory masked wrestling women, the heroine in this instance having almost no connection with the ape-man or his evil scientist creator, but the dialogue makes for extremely bad/funny sequences. There is much red paint splattered about and some obviously phony gore scenes. A great and good laugh for the twisted soul such as myself.