The Monster Walks (1932)

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Excellent but underrated film

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This movie is slow & corny. It's not a good film but does have enough strangeness to be slightly entertaining in a boring sort of way. Overall the film is, well, boring. There are moments of slightly weird entertainment.Some of the film posters for the movie shows what appears to be a gorilla but it is not a gorilla - it is a chimpanzee named Yogi that is screeching and escapes into the rest of the house.The acting is stiff - very wooden, the plot & story are weak and the overall scariness is zero. This movie I can say is easy to pass up because you are not missing anything if you do decide to pass over this film. If you do decide to watch this movie - don't expect much out of it because there is very little entertainment to get out of this film.2/10

I have an original Mexican lobbycard of this oldie-but-not-goldie dark house thriller with a terrific illustration (not seen in American publicity materials as far as I am aware) of a very scary giant (King Kong-size!) ape, but, alas, no such monster appears in the movie. The on screen credits are superimposed over an illustration of a gorilla carrying a damsel-in-distress, but, alas, no such scene is in the movie either! There is only a chimpanzee locked up in a basement cage. The opening scenes when a potential heiress is awaited in a mansion where a will is to be read seemed somewhat promising with one or two nicely lit compositions and the actress playing the housemaid was a welcome presence. Yet it turned out that, 95 percent of the movie's brief running time (one hour), until a meaningless but mildly exploitative climax, consisted of people talking standing or sitting in rooms or moving in between rooms where they will talk sitting or standing!.. It would have helped if the "ape" in the basement cage was a man-in-gorilla-costume and not a chimpanzee. I have a feeling that at some stage, the original screenplay entailed something more than it was filmed. Who was the housemaid referring to when she told her son to lock up all the doors and windows against? To whom did the hairy hand belong? Not the killer as it is revealed.. It should also be noted that there is a pretty racist portrayal of a black driver as a foolish and timid folk, made worse by a pun where he acknowledges that he is related to apes. Worth looking only for those studying racism in American cinema, falls flat on all other departments, so boring that not even so-bad-so-good.

Sorry for my bad English :(This movie wants to be some many things at the time, and fails in every aspect, tries to be as Dracula or Frankenstein, tries to be a detective movie, a Gothic tale, a suspenseful movie ad scary, but none of this ones works, first the plot is ridiculous, a group of people stay in a old dark house to read the will of a relative and then strange things began to happen they all think is the ape of the dead relative, in the end the ape is controlled by three of the people to kill the others and stay with the money, which is ridiculous, so the story doesn't work and is rejected by major studios, but they still want to make the movie, so they make it independent, plus the develop of the script also has some plot holes and things that just don't make sense like the part the fiancée of the leading girl starts asking questions like a detective to a guy just because he found his cigarette, or the leading girl that screams the whole movie to take her out of the house, but they don't even try to get out, after all what just happened, or again the leading girl, screaming because she found a corpse in her bed, and just minutes later she sleeps in the same place the body was found, come on all this is ridiculous and i am not telling everything.From that we get the second point, the low-budget, you can see the movie is obviously cheap, because of the special effects, the setting and the actors, the killer hand of the monkey doesn't even look like the real monkey, it makes no sense, the setting tries to be Gothic and creepy but it is not, and the acting is laughable, the leading girl is always hysterical and in tow seconds she is smiling or laughing, Hans tries to be creepy, but it ends being laughable, and its a little bit racist, the only black character in the movie is the one with no intelligence. In the end its a bad low-budget movie that tries to be like Dracula or Frankenstain, this movie is just too simple, if you want to see a real Gothic old dark house movie go watch The Old Dark House, the 1932 version, directed by James Whale.5.1/10

The Monster Walks (1932) ** (out of 4) It's rather amazing at how many films would follow after The Bat was released in 1926 and kicked off the "old dark house" genre. This time a daughter returns to her father's house after his death so that she can hear the will being read. Everything starts off okay but soon a killer is stalking everyone with the help of a gorilla. I'm still rather curious why every "old dark house" from this period featured a gorilla. I'm going to guess that movie crowds back then were scared of them as I don't see why they should play such an important part in these films. Nothing really stands out in this film, although the running time is just over 60-minutes. The performances are decent but nothing special and the story itself doesn't offer enough twists to be entertaining. God knows there are far worse than this out there but then again there are much better ones. The racial humor from a servant (named Sleep 'N Eat) is off base and doesn't really help matters.