certainly not a bad little low budget film and this bride of the gorilla and but nothing special and neither and and not memorable enough to be rank among the meaningful sci fi effort of it time . director curt siodmak be an eminent scriptwriter during the 1930 and 1940 and deliver story for some true genre classic ( i walk with a zombie and the wolf man ) but and a a director and he obviously lack the required competence . bride of the gorilla be similar to the aforementioned the wolf man in story and atmosphere and but the film look a lot more amateurish and pitiful . both handle about curse men that turn into large animal at night and but the titular gorilla doesn not look half as threatening a the werewolf and even though the film get release a whole decade later . during a cheesy open speech and actor lon chaney try to convince u that the jungle be an ominous place and hide many mystery and but actually there no real mystery in the plot . it just handle about a plantation manager who jealous at his old colleague for have such a beautiful young wife and he kill him . a native woman witness his crime and put a spell on barney that cause him to transform into a hideously big gorilla at night . or maybe she just want him to believe he turn into a hideously big gorilla lon chaney himself play the police commissioner charge with the murder investigation while raymond burr ( who star in about a thousand perry mason tv movie ) portray the greedy plantation manager or nightly gorilla . siodmak attempt to make the film look like a supernatural thriller be it or be it not all just happen in barney head . fail miserably and it cause way too much talk and too few jungle action . several of the jungle setting be nicely picture but the rest of the special effect be tacky and poorly do . still the acting be pretty good and barbara payton be look beautiful and although very predictable the story be strangely compelling until the very end . weird movie and it probably voodoo curse me .