King Kong
Film series
34
MENTIONS
10
EPISODES
10
PODCASTS
Search complete. 34 mentions across 10 episodes found for "King Kong".
Oct 29, 2026
JohnHOST
These Godzilla exploitation movies all have the same story, where it's like we go to this island.
JohnHOST
It's all doing like a King Kong riff.
JohnHOST
They go to this island, this location.
JohnHOST
They encounter a monster.
Susan KayPANELIST
a selection of five real movie monsters.
Susan KayPANELIST
And the first one we're going to go with is King Kong.
Susan KayPANELIST
Possibly the most famous monster movie of all time, the original 1933 King Kong is the classic Beauty and the Beast story told in disguise.
Susan KayPANELIST
The giant ape Kong falls in love with beautiful actress Ann Darrow and then pays the price by getting shot off the Empire State Building by fighter planes.
Susan KayPANELIST
But was King Kong real? Scientists believe a creature of similar description roamed the Earth 9 million years ago.
Susan KayPANELIST
It was called Gigantopithecus blacki.
Susan KayPANELIST
And fossil records suggest this real monster stood more than 10 feet tall and may have weighed close to a ton.
Switchblade StevePANELIST
May I add something to that? Yes.
Eric ColleyHOST
But when you look at these movies, I mean, like I said, there were those 30s horror films that are classics.
Eric ColleyHOST
And you got King Kong and all those things.
Eric ColleyHOST
I love those movies so much.
Eric ColleyHOST
But then Psycho was sort of a game changer, I think, for modern-type horror films.
JB BallHOST
Like my tactic is so wildly like, what?
Brad WilliamsHOST
Which leads me, I forget which King Kong movie it is.
Brad WilliamsHOST
Yeah.
Brad WilliamsHOST
But it's one of the more modern ones.
speaker_7HOST
All completed in 1931.
speaker_7HOST
When they start putting this building in the movies, like King Kong, and showing the world that this is the brand new building.
speaker_7HOST
Where we all know how the industry works at this point.
speaker_7HOST
We all know how it goes.
James AdamsonHOST
There's lots of films about werewolves, but it's kind of like...
James AdamsonHOST
There is The Wolfman from 1941, but that kind of never got given the same status as the other... uh the monsters but if you're going to do king kong or if you're going to do a giant eight movie it's kind of going to be king kong if you're going to do yeah you can do loads of vampire movies or you can remake dracula or you can make frankenstein maybe there isn't a single apart from the one we're doing today yeah maybe there isn't that many super famous werewolf films that you could like that actually like where it constitutes a remake otherwise otherwise you just do a werewolf movie do you know what i mean
Alan BaylesHOST
Yeah, maybe there isn't the interest for werewolf films like with vampires.
Alan BaylesHOST
Vampires have a more mystique about them that really attracts the audience.
34 MINS LATER
James AdamsonHOST
The original is quite low budget.
James AdamsonHOST
I don't think it was given as much support and credibility as the original round of Universal horror characters.
James AdamsonHOST
I think notably Dracula, Frankenstein, Invisible Man, King Kong and The Mummy, they all started in the 30s and The Wolfman didn't happen until 1941, at which point Universal had gone a bit more low rent on its monster movies anyway.
James AdamsonHOST
You know, the war's on, so they can't come and film in England, right? So this must have been all done on the Hollywood studio, like, you know, backlot, you know?
WillHOST
Exactly.
WillHOST
This is very much like the Loch Ness Monster incident, where the first description of the Loch Ness Monster as a long-necked, humpbacked creature came after King Kong, where a sauropod with a long neck and a humped back attacks people out of the water.
DavidHOST
Yes.
DavidHOST
I remember reading an account, and I don't, you know, I don't remember where I read this, but of a person who I think reported an alien abduction experience, and then people were looking into it and found a lot of the details were very similar to an episode of, I think it was the Twilight Zone or Star Trek.
Jubal FreshHOST
It's time for Nina's What's Trending.
NinaHOST
Much like everything else, the movie-going experience keeps changing, and so does the price, especially if you want to see the new King Kong movie.
NinaHOST
You can enjoy it in the best way possible if you're willing to pay.
NinaHOST
$90.
9 MINS LATER
NinaHOST
Let's go out there and eat listener food.
NinaHOST
Yeah.
NinaHOST
Well, you know, King Kong probably should market like we do.
NinaHOST
You know, the movie King Kong, there's a new one coming out.
Kelly NugentGUEST
Yeah.
Patrick HamiltonHOST
So like a King Kong sorta sitch, where-
Kelly NugentGUEST
[laughs]
Lindsay KataiGUEST
Yeah
Vincent HannamHOST
The select crew with this film, I will just reiterate the Japanese director, Koji Hashimoto.
Vincent HannamHOST
Now, he was the assistant director on a number of Showa-era classics, King Kong vs. Godzilla, Ghidorah the Three-Headed Monster, Frankenstein vs. Baragon, Invasion of Astro Monster, Latitude Zero, All Monsters Attack, and and a lot of others.
Vincent HannamHOST
So Koji Hashimoto over in Japan makes way for American director R.J. Kaiser.
Vincent HannamHOST
R.J. Kaiser was a film director and editor, noted pictures of his, Hell Comes to Frogtown he directed, and he edited Galaxy of Terror.
20 MINS LATER
Vincent HannamHOST
He, you say something, you said the same thing.
Vincent HannamHOST
You love the episode.
Vincent HannamHOST
The King Kong fan page over on Instagram says that was a great interview guys.
Vincent HannamHOST
Again, son of Kong.