#king kong 1976

[filmgifs]

King Kong (1976) dir. John Guillermin

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[weirdlookindog]

Jessica Lange in King Kong (1976).

#king kong 1976 #jessica lange #1976 #1970s movies #john guillermin #adventure #horror

[crusaderguy]

"Hell itself."

#memes #kaiju #godzilla #anguirus #rodan #king caesar #king kong #kong #godzilla final wars #godzilla vs megalon #rodan 1956 #king kong 1976 #waffle house

[twixnmix]

Farrah Fawcett, Kate Jackson, and Jaclyn Smith publicity photos for the TV series Charlie's Angels in 1976.

Photos by Douglas Kirkland

#farrah fawcett #kate jackson #jaclyn smith #charlie's angels #king kong 1976 #1970s #1970s fashion #pop culture

[lobbycards]

King Kong, Hungarian Lobby Card. 1976

#King Kong 1976 #John Guillermin #Lobby Card #Lobby Cards

[pulpsandcomics2]

King Kong (1976) UK front of house cards

#movie posters #lobby cards #king kong 1976

[crudnyk]

Jessica Lange, King Kong (1976)

#jessica lange #king kong 1976 #gif

[thealmightyemprex]

Ive got actual screen used hair strands from the 40ft King Kong animatronic from the 1976 King Kong

@the-blue-fairie @themousefromfantasyland @theancientvaleofsoulmaking @amalthea9 @ariel-seagull-wings @angelixgutz @filmcityworld1 @minimumheadroom @princesssarisa

#king kong 1976

[astoundingbeyondbelief]

Kaiju Week in Review (October 9-15, 2022)

Supreme shock sensation of our times: a Godzilla comic released on schedule! Godzilla: Monsters & Protectors - All Hail the King! #1 dropped on Wednesday. I'll confess I forgot about it for a couple of days; your priorities get scrambled when you're recovering from knee surgery. This is a direct sequel to last year's Monsters & Protectors; I don't recommend going in blind. Two big reasons to pick it up: Gabara's debut in American comics (in a dream, natch) and a professional Xilien troll who muses over which reaction .gif he should deploy. Yeah, me too.

Toho released a teaser and this very cool still for the upcoming short Fest Godzilla 3: Gigan's Attack, showing off the Showa Gigan replica suit Shinichi Wakasa built. It's strange to see it opposite FinalGoji (presumably the same stunt suit from last year's Godzilla vs. Hedorah short). I guess it's just his destiny to face Godzilla suits that are barely holding themselves together.

I cannot hope to comprehensively cover the deluge of Godzilla merchandise forever threatening my bank account in this column, but I would like to spotlight this enamel Baragon pin, designed by Christian Gonzalez for Ghost X Ghost. When I saw it my hands simply moved to order of their own volition.

The Dino De Laurentiis King Kong films are getting format upgrades. StudioCanal has a 4K restoration of the 1976 remake slated for November 28, while Umbrella Entertainment is bringing King Kong Lives, long out of print in the States, to Blu-ray on January 18. Neither company is American, but 4Ks don't have region codes and I hear Umbrella Blu-rays are typically region-free.

Probably neither will be a buy for me. The color grading on the 4K King Kong doesn't look great, and the special features don't measure up to the Blu-ray Shout! released last year. I will grant that the King Kong Lives Blu looks like a winner, with great packaging and new special features including a Ray Morton audio commentary. (They had to be new; the old DVD didn't have a thing to mine.) But it's not exactly one of my favorites, and since Shout! recently picked up the rights to it, I'd rather hold out for a version I don't have to import.

Just over a year after it premiered at Fantastic Fest, Iké Boys is out on digital courtesy of (they just keep coming up) Shout! Factory. Hopefully a physical release will follow, because this heartfelt American tribute to tokusatsu doesn't deserve to be buried in the Google Play Store. Set in the last month of 1999, it concerns a pair of Oklahoma tokusatsu geeks and a Japanese exchange student trying to prevent the apocalypse, empowered by the obscure 1969 anime film that predicted it. It's very low-budget and hits a lot of predictable coming-of-age beats, but it's got a good heart and Yumiko Shaku (yes, Akane in Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla) classes it up. Also... it's not often I'm pandered to so directly. The director's one of us, to put it mildly.

Big thing are happening on the bootleg circuit... a couple of them last week, but I never posted about them on Tumblr and this is the first installment of this column. Yesterday, Skeweds Translations posted fansubs for What to Do with the Dead Kaiju?, Toei and Shochiku's kaiju comedy with no U.S. release outside of film festivals in sight. The film is catastrophically bad, I'm sorry to say, failing as a satire and as a genre exercise; Day of the Kaiju handled the same premise far better in a quarter of the time. But if you're so inclined, you can find a copy of the movie itself on the cat site... along with a higher-quality copy of Shin Ultraman than was uploaded there previously. I don't know where these things are coming from (Zarab?), but I'm not complaining.

And in the how-can-this-be-real category, a treat for your ears: the recently unearthed Hong Kong dub of Hanuman and the Seven Ultramen. As in Godzilla vs. Megalon, Ted Thomas, Chris Hilton, and Warren Rooke voice many of the characters. You won't believe the words coming out of their mouths—I don't think they did either. Between the child murder, checkmated atheist, and Hanuman's unquenchable thirst for carnage, this was always one of the kaiju movies with the most jaw drops per minute, and it just got better. A VHS containing the dub turned up in Lebanon; @Redcome40977685, @PrissMegaforce, Omayyad, and Elie Al Hajj got it digitized and @spacehunter-m synced the audio up to a fine-looking widescreen version.

#kaiju week in review #godzilla #godzilla monsters and protectors all hail the king #fest godzilla 3 gigan's attack #gigan #gabara #baragon #king kong #king kong 1976 #king kong lives #home video #ike boys #what to do with the dead kaiju? #hanuman and the seven ultramen #kaiju

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Movie Releases for April 9, 2024

#home video #physical media #the abandoned #fallen leaves #finestkind #it's a wonderful knife #king kong #king kong 1976 #lost in space #lisa frankenstein #the minus man #monster #monster 2023 #night swim #which brings me to you #winnie the pooh blood and honey #dvd #bluray #4k #steelbook #cover art #april 9

[bloob-art]

King Kong 1976 shot redraws! Kong 1976 was a pretty movie in its own way and I made a few redraws of some of my favorite shots~ I might do more! these were done last year at some point. I totally forgot to post them-

#king kong #zora #sona #gorilla #Fake Screenshot #redraw #king kong 1976 #art #my art

[cressida-jayoungr]

One Dress a Week Challenge

May: Gold & Silver

King Kong (1976) / Jessica Lange as "Dwan" (Ann Darrow?)

Although this film was given a contemporaneous 1970s setting, the dress Dwan/Ann wears for the climactic performance where she ends up getting carried off to the top of a tall building (the World Trade Center, in this version) has a definite nod to the styles of the 1933 original film. It's backless, with a geometric, sort of Art Deco-style belt. The display mannequin shows wrist cuffs that match the belt as well, but in the actual film she just wears a diamond bracelet.

When she first arrives, Dwan/Ann briefly wears a filmy cape over the dress, but it is quickly removed. Later, while hanging out in a deserted bar after escaping from Kong for the first time, she randomly tries on a fur coat over it too.

I had never seen this movie before discovering the dress. The giant ape effects are occasionally stiff, but overall, they're really not bad for the era! The gowns were done by Anthea Sylbert, who also costumed Chinatown.

#one dress a day challenge #king kong #king kong 1976 #one dress a week challenge #silver dresses #jessica lange #ann darrow #movie costumes #1976 movies #1976 films #Anthea Sylbert #1970s style #1970s fashion #retro aesthetic #silver dress #wonderful capes

[monster-ock]

The legend of King Kong

New concept art

#king kong vs godzilla #king kong 1976 #king kong lives #The legend of King Kong #kong #art #kaiju #movies #documentary #Cancelled film #🦍 #Art #king kong 2005

[randomdeinonychus]

Had an argument with someone on a Facebook group about whether Kong counts as a kaiju or deserves honor in tokusatsu, either.

The guy insisted Kong does not count because he is a "kaijin," which is apparently a category for humanoids like Ultraman, and also because he was originally stop-motion he does not count as tokusatsu.

Well, nuts to that.

Kong has appeared in 8 live-action films. In 4 of those films he was portrayed by a guy in a suit. So a good 50% of his film appearances, then, are basically tokusatsu.

Especially since 2 of those 4 appearances had him brought to life by Eiji Tsubaraya himself!

Plus, let's not forget that the successful re-release of the 1933 King Kong was one of the inspirations behind Godzilla's creation in the first place!

I get that some fans have an irrational hatred for Kong, because I have had that mindset, too. However, I grew out of it and the rest of them need to, too.

#king kong #king kong vs godzilla #king kong escapes #king kong 1976 #king kong lives #kong #godzilla #tokusatsu #eiji tsuburaya #rick baker #carlo rambaldi #gif party

[lobbycards]

King Kong, Hungarian Lobby Card. 1976

#King Kong 1976 #John Guillermin #Lobby Card #Lobby Cards

[markwatneyspacepiratee]

Was anyone going to tell me that King Kong attacked the twin towers and caused a massive fireball explosion in 1976′s King Kong or was that just something I had to learn for myself on a Wednesday night?

#king kong #king kong 1976 #When the fireball happened I just #:o #like it almost looks like really poor taste satire #anyway go watch that movie if you want to get hit with SO much secondhand discomfort in the last like 10-15 mins