LA HORRIPILANTE BESTIA HUMANA
(NIGHT OF THE BLOODY APES)
dir. René Cardona, 1969
Mexico. 81 min.
In English.

SATURDAY, MAY 4 – MIDNIGHT
FRIDAY, MAY 10 – 10 PM
WEDNESDAY, MAY 22 – 7:30 PM
TUESDAY, MAY 28 – 10 PM

This film includes scenes of sexual violence.

“It’s as if H.G. Lewis made ALTERED STATES, but also RE-ANIMATOR and in Mexico.”
—Caroline Kopko

A surgeon, Dr. Krallman (José Elias Moreno), unleashes a monster on Mexico City after he transplants a gorilla’s heart into his son’s body in a last-ditch attempt to save him from Leukemia. Although it is a shame there is only one ape-man in NIGHT OF THE BLOODY APES, Cardona makes up for it by offering a grizzlier take on the premise that he had previously sketched out in DOCTOR OF DOOM. NIGHT OF THE BLOODY APES is a mean morality play, in which science and ethics are exploded to maximum dramatic effect.