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The Bloody Ape

Director: Keith J. Crocker Run Time: 77 min. Format: DCP Rating: NR Release Year: 1997

Starring: Christopher Hoskins, Paul Richichi, Joe Zaso, George Reis, Larry Koster, Arlene Burns, Salvatore Finkel

“A throwback to crude, white trash drive-in classics.” – Shock Cinema

A deranged carnival barker unleashes his pet gorilla to wreak havoc on his enemies in a small Long Island town. When the ape embarks on a sex-fueled rampage of murder and dismemberment, a racist local detective sets his sights on an innocent drifter.

From outsider indie auteur and legendary horror zine publisher Keith J. Crocker comes this Super 8-shot, lurid love letter to both the grindhouse era and Edgar Allen Poe’s Murders in the Rue Morgue. The Bloody Ape spares no souls and pulls no punches in its depiction of the depraved, morally bankrupt suburbs of a bygone New York City, where sleaze and grime coursed through its veins.