Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

ChicRawIdol A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

poe-48833 I have to agree with fellow Carolinian "BaronBlood" about BRIDE OF THE GORILLA: this it is, as s/he(?) put it: "A simian soap opera." Of the highest order, I might add. It never fails to amaze me when a filmmaker has at his/her disposal everything that s/he needs to render a classic (or, at the very least, something boasting higher Entertainment Value than this) and DOESN'T. BRIDE OF THE GORILLA manages, by film's end, to look like the kind of movie that Ed Wood, Jr. would've made had he been capable. The shot of the gorilla's reflection (as the gorilla Raymond Burr reflects) is almost laugh-out-loud funny. I expected a LITTLE more from a movie that boasts so much.

Cristi_Ciopron A shocker with Barbara Payton, Chaney, Burr, Conway, Cavanagh, Strode (I hope he wasn't playing in drag the witch …); Curt Siodmak had the destiny of the 2nd brother who directs, somewhat like Wilder's brother, which in his situation seems unfair, it's almost never mentioned that he has made movies, like this one or the kindred TV series. I liked that Barbara has been given the right to a loud scream.Curt Siodmak's directing is light and subtle, unassuming and intelligent, like in the later TV series.2nd, the storyline resembles very much that of the director's TV series, '13 Demon Street'. It's almost like that series' pilot. The idea is the same.3rd, Burr surprised me again with his modern appearance and also style, he reminds a bit of Sutherland (or even M. Sheen, but not necessarily), more of an early '70s look.4th, Chaney does a very smooth and likable role here, as the indigenous commissioner. He's a bit nonchalant and 5th, although Curt Siodmak stated his dissatisfaction with Chaney being cast as the monster written by him, nevertheless he directed Chaney, and not only in this feverish shocker, but also in the TV series.6th, Cavanagh, who plays the older husband, resembled the father in law of Doug from 'King of Queens', and it was good he has been wasted, expended soon.7th, you will see the names of Broder and Leven, plus H. Cohen, on the credits, which are associated with a lousy jungle comedy disgracing Lugosi's late career (in fact, it was from the same epoch). So they produced both one of the worst, and one of the best, jungle movies.

bkoganbing The most interesting thing about Bride Of The Gorilla is that Lon Chaney, Jr. and Raymond Burr seemed to switch roles. As the film bore more than a passing resemblance to one of Chaney's wolf man features at Universal it seemed like both were in each other's roles. Would that Bride Of The Gorilla were as good as one of those Universal Gothic horror films.Chaney is a police inspector and Burr is the foreman on a rubber plantation in one of those northern South American colonies, my guess would be Dutch Guiana as Tom Conway as Dr. Viet says he's there under a government contract. Burr's got eyes for the plantation mistress Barbara Payton who is married to the much older Paul Cavanaugh. After Cavanaugh is killed by a poisonous snake after Burr knocks him down in a fight he gets Payton and weds her.Unfortunately he left a witness in old Gisela Werbisek who is a Maria Ouspenskaya wannabe. She puts a curse on Burr and after that some strange killings of animals start happening in the jungle. Like a werewolf on a prowl. And Burr starts behaving real strange as well.This very talented group of players deserved a whole lot better than this wolf man ripoff.

Vornoff-3 To my mind, this is a really great cast: Lon Chaney, Jr., Raymond Burr, Tom Conway, and a young Woody Strode. In spite of the poverty-row level of production and a flawed script, these guys give it their best and deliver. The female lead, Barbara Peyton, isn't functioning on the same level, nor is her rival, Carol Varga, but Gisela Werbisek as an ancient witch-woman gives us at least one great female performance. This is not, by the way, the same as the Ed Wood-scripted "Bride and the Beast," about a woman who lusts after a gorilla. No, this woman betrays her husband for a man who is "little more than a beast" and then watches as her new lover transforms, little by little, into an ape. Or maybe not. It all may be (seems to be?) in his head, a guilt-complex over committing murder, and all that 50s psycho-babble. It's fun, but not really a proper monster movie. Know that going in and you may enjoy.