Yeti: Giant of the 20th Century - 1977

 I'm trying to watch whatever free pre-1990ish Yet, Sasquatch, and Bigfoot movies are available.  But does this one really count?

Apparently some Italians heard that there was going to be a sequel to the 1976 King Kong movie and they decided to rush production on this "would be ripoff" except that the sequel movie in question was never made and now this is an odd curio from 1977.  

In this, a frozen creature thought to be a Yeti is thawed, promptly comes back to life, and goes on a rampage.  I mean, that sounds fun and whatever, except that the Yeti itself is instead a giant regular man, and once he's raised he quickly acts as much like King Kong as possible, including falling in love with a human woman and doing all that typical bullshit.

Featuring stodgy effects and ridiculous acting, there is a B grade drinky smoky aspect to this, but its a little slow, and a big section of the movie where the monster gets sick and has to be put on oxygen really grinds the momentum to a halt.  Its also just like...not a Yeti.  It is more like a giant neanderthal and plays like any "giant" monster movie, especially perhaps obviously like King Kong.

Its whatever.  Kinda boring.  I give it a star.

Night of the Bloody Apes - 1969

 Also known as The Horrible Man-Beast.

What was the deal exactly with our views of the tenuous line between man and animal, as well as our struggle with identity that fed into such things as Doctor Jeckyll and movies like this?  Movies where a brain are put into a another body make some sense, but I love the idea of an animal brain into a human, vice versa, and I love animal heart into a person like in this movie.

Video Nasty is attributed because of some pretty gross stock footage shots of a real heart transplantation, and because of a couple pretty insane rape scenes with lots of nudity.  Definitely the fact it is an ape-monster raping a human woman doesn't help the case. This fits nicely into the "surprise" theory of my Video Nasty project, people were expecting some stupid Mexican ape movie, not real and graphic gore.

Night of the Bloody Apes feels like a Mexican version of a Hammer Horror movie, in a good way.  Stuffy Mexican actors stand in for British ones, such as Santa Claus from MST3K's Santa Vs The Devil wants to raise his son from the dead and swaps his heart for that of a dead ape.  Kiddo transforms into a horny and destructive half ape half human monster, and by that I mean completely human except with ape makeup on.  The monster goes on a destructive rampage, the humans have to stop it.

The Video Nasty components are good, and the original movie was good, I argue.  Without the insane parts this is still like a late 60s monster movie which I would tend to enjoy.  So with those, its just an added bonus.  Its also blessedly short and quick moving.  The 80ish minutes did just fly on by.   I give it a solid 3.

Nasty Scale: 3/10

"For" or "Against" Video Nasty as a Concept:  For