Two-Legged Lizard

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Two-Legged Lizard
Two-Legged Lizard
Alternate names Giant Lizard, Pit Lizard, Cave Lizard
Species Giant lizard
Portrayed by Stop-motion
First appearance King Kong (1933)

The Two-Legged Lizard is a giant lizard monster that makes a brief appearance in the 1933 film King Kong.


This creature's name is never spoken onscreen, but in the script for King Kong it is acknowledged as the Giant Lizard. The name "two-legged lizard" refers to the creature's distinctive trait of only possessing two limbs, although the film's script and novelization never indicate that the creature possesses only two legs. The Art and Making of Kong: Skull Island refers to it as the two legged lizard when discussing its influence on the Skullcrawlers' design.


The lizard has an elongated body with two forelimbs and a tail, but no hind legs. It only has two digits on each hand, like a chameleon or the two-toed Earless Skink native to Australia. Its neck bears a mane-like collection of spikes that creates a break in the crest that runs from its head to its tail.


King Kong (1933)

After King Kong destroyed the log bridge and sent most of the Venture crew to their deaths in the chasm below, Jack Driscoll hid in a small crevice in the rock wall. Jack looked down and saw a giant two-legged lizard slowly scaling up a vine to his position. Jack quickly grabbed a dagger and cut the vine, sending the lizard plummeting into the chasm.

"The Lost Spider Pit Sequence"

In a recreation of the cut and subsequently lost spider pit scene from the original King Kong, the two-legged lizard is seen crossing the pit bottom before climbing the wall to menace Jack using stock footage.


King Kong (1933)

"The Lost Spider Pit Sequence"



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