Wednesday, May 30, 2012

The Bride and the Beast (1958)

Allied Artists
Directed by Adrian Weiss
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, VCI Entertainment)

This starts out with some classic Ed Wood. A newlywed couple spend their honeymoon in a mansion where the husband keeps his exotic animals. The gorilla in the basement gets loose and confronts the bride in their bedroom. He manages to rip her clothes off before being shot dead. She reveals under hypnosis that she was a gorilla in a past life, which explains why she likes to wear angora sweaters and the gorilla was attracted to her. Husband and wife take off to Africa to hunt and trap more animals. The movie takes a long detour for tiger hunting, overloaded with stock animal footage. The gorillas return for the ending, whisking away the bride for good. It's all told in flashback, but for the life of me I can't remember when the flashback started.

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