Also released as
- La horripilante bestia humana
- Horror y sexo
- Gomar the Human Gorilla
- Gomar: The Human Gorilla
- Sex Monsters
- Korang, la terrificante bestia umana
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Night of the Bloody Apes
Night of the Bloody Apes is a 1969 Mexican creature feature directed by René Cardona. It is one of the 72 films on the Director of Public Prosecutions' video nasties list, and it was successfully prosecuted for obscenity.
A luchadora, a heart transplant from a gorilla, and real open-heart surgery footage spliced in.
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A Mexican wrestling film with a gorilla heart transplant and real open-heart surgery footage spliced into it.
A doctor's son has leukaemia. The doctor decides the answer is a gorilla, and the operation is illustrated with several minutes of genuine surgical film, which is the element that separated this from the rest of its otherwise harmless luchador surroundings.
Everything else is a lucha picture: a masked wrestler heroine, a police investigation, and a man in an ape suit throwing people through windows.
René Cardona shot a tamer version first and then added the gore and nudity for export, which was standard practice.
Successfully prosecuted. The surgical footage is the reason and it is still the reason people seek it out.
Banned, seized, prosecuted
DPP 72 · successfully prosecuted
Contains real open-heart surgery footage spliced into the transplant scene, which is the element that separated it from its otherwise harmless luchador surroundings.
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Checked 9 Aug 2026
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