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This week for Toku Tuesday we are delving into a truly bizarre subgenre in the world of giant monsters, Kongsploitation. This is a subgenre of a subgenre since Man-in-a-Gorilla-Suit is a subgenre all of its own, but this moniker specifically refers to giant ape movies that are trying to steal the iconography of King Kong.
The Weird World of Kongsploitation: From 1933 to 2020 – Scriptophobic Andrew Roebuck 2021
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However – when an official Kong film (or two) is imminent, imitators are never far behind. Kongsploitation as a cinematic phenomenon can be traced back to the earliest days of the great ape’s theatrical endeavours. Wasei King Kong (1933) is a now-lost three-reel comedy short directed by Torajiro Saito, distributed by Shochiku to promote the Japanese release of the original Kong.
The Mighty B-Kong Men: An Introduction to Kongsploitation - Arrow Films Steven Sloss 2022
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And then you had some folks that were content to just ruthlessly riff on King Kong itself. Rather than imagine literally any other monster blown up to ridiculous proportions, they simply recycled the overgrown primate storyline again and again, resulting in a strange, dusty little cinematic corner that’s sheer Kongsploitation. And like any idiosyncratic genre, its offerings range from nakedly dull knock-offs to completely deranged dispatches that feel like they shouldn’t exist. Here’s five of them, and this is by no means a comprehensive list—this just happens to be the quintet I watched on a whim with Kong: Skull Island approaching. Believe it or not, there are at least five more that could comprise another list in the future.
June 17, 2017