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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: GOUGH,MICHAEL
EAN: 9781404999510
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 1404999515
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 06, 2005
Running Time: 90 minutes
Sales Rank: 52387
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1961
Editorial Review:
Description:
Lost in the African jungles for over a year, Dr. Charles Decker (Michael Gough, Horror Hospital) has returned to England with Konga, a baby chimpanzee. Disappearing into his lab, the mad botanist begins work on what he believes will be his greatest achievement. Having witnessed a Baganda witchdoctor’s use of a rare carnivorous plant to produce accelerated animal growth, Decker injects Konga with the same serum. Using the gorilla-sized chimp to brutally murder his enemies, Decker himself soon becomes victim to Konga's uncontrollable rage. Grabbing the scientist, the berserk chimp – who's grown to monstrous size – breaks out of the lab and rampages through London, a city whose salvation rests with the military, who's been ordered to destroy Konga at all costs.
Amazon.com:
Horror producer Herman Cohen, the genius behind Trog, Berserk, and the immortal I Was a Teenage Werewolf, here brings the world giant-ape action with a British twist. Konga is, of course, a King Kong rip-off, but the filmmakers are so refreshingly brazen about it that it's hard to mind. Botanist Dr. Charles Decker returns from Africa with some brand-new plants and an adorable chimpanzee buddy named Konga. Decker has some revolutionary ideas about 'finding the first link in modern evolution between plant and animal life,' but don't think about them too much, they'll just give you a headache. The upshot is that Decker develops a serum that makes Konga grow really big. (Primatology fans will be interested to note that Decker's serum also mysteriously turns Konga from a chimpanzee into a gorilla. The wonders of science are myriad.) Alas, like so many of his horror-movie-scientist brethren, Decker is a cold-hearted, ruthless creep who soon has the superstrong Konga doing his evil bidding. In addition to its guy-in-a-gorilla-suit pleasures, Konga offers poorly scaled dolls of the lead characters, fetching giant Venus flytrap puppets, and a genuinely good performance by Michael Gough as the ever more evil Dr. Decker. --Ali Davis
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - fun "King Kong" rip-off!
The UK's answer to "King Kong", KONGA! (1961) stars Michael Gough as Dr. Charles Decker, an eccentric professor who injects a baby chimp with powerful growth hormones and later uses it as a trained assassin to kill his enemies.
Margo Johns enlivens the proceedings and adds glamour, playing Decker's frustrated assistant/housekeeper Margaret. Michael Gough, a serial scene-stealer, lives up to his reputation here. On the down-side, blonde starlet Claire Gordon is a very bland ingenue; ... Read More
Rating: - NOT KING KONG
ENGLAND'S ANSWER TO THE GREAT APES MOVIES. FINE FOR WHAT IT IS. BUT HOW DOES A CHIMP BECOME A GORILLA?
Rating:  - King Kong meets Tarantula in a terrible B Movie rip off of Kong
One of the worst movies I've ever seen, It's been said "Plan 9 From Outer Space" is the worst movie ever made, that is not a bad movie, for 50s audience yes it was, but it had a cult following. Konga has not and probably won't, it's just awful, it's not even an entertaining B movie, it was a terrible B Movie.
Rating: - mogrilla
Konga is the perfect example of science gone wrong. A lustful scientist
discovers a way to make things HUGE along with his ego. He keeps his girlfriend/secretary on a leash and lusts after a younger high school girl. He then experiments with his chimpanze buddy and turns him into a
moronic gorilla. With one too many mishaps, the gorilla, the girlfriend,
and his lust get out of hand which leads to their destruction.
Rating:  - "What you have done will startle the world!"
In the last of the successful co-productions between American International Pictures (AIP) and producer Herman Cohen comes Konga (1961), which Herman not only co-producer, but also shared in the writing credits. Some of their most famous collaborations included I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957) and I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957), neither of which, as I write this, are available as of yet on DVD, but should be (Konga was produced with the working title I Was a Teenage Gorilla)...anyway, directed ... Read More
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