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The Mighty Peking Man1977

Name: The Mighty Peking Man
Genre: Monster & Creature, Survival
Released: 1977-08-11
Rating: 5.6

“Action... Excitement... Spectacle beyond your wildest dreams!”

Directed by Ho Meng-Hua

5.6

Crypt Score

Blended from 2 sources

IMDb 5.4TMDB 5.2

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Year

1977

Runtime

90 min

Box Office

Domestic

$17,368

The premise

Word of a monster ape ten stories tall living in the Himalayas reaches fortune hunters in Hong Kong. They travel to India to capture it, but wild animals and quicksand dissuade all but Johnny, an adventurer with a broken heart. He finds the monster and discovers it's been raising a scantily-clad woman, Samantha, since she survived a plane crash years before that killed her parents. In the idyllic jungle, Johnny and Samantha fall in love. Then Johnny asks her to convince "Utam" to go to Hong Kong. Lu Tien, an unscrupulous promoter, takes over: Utam is in chains for freak show exhibitions. When Lu Tien assaults Samantha, Utam's protective instincts take over: havoc in Hong Kong.

Horror Vault's take

A towering ape discovered deep in the Himalayas becomes the obsession of Hong Kong fortune hunters, but only one heartbroken adventurer dares press far enough into the jungle to find the truth. What he uncovers is stranger and more affecting than any monster story — a feral woman who has lived alongside the giant creature since childhood, forming an unlikely family in the wilderness. Shaw Brothers throws everything at the screen in this gleefully unabashed King Kong riff, complete with exotic jungle spectacle and city-stomping destruction. It is exploitation filmmaking at its most unapologetic, and proud of every frame.

Content: Animal Attack Sequences, Scenes Of Animal Peril, Violence, Sexualized Costuming