10 Amazingly Bad Rip Off Films You've Never Seen

Laughable in every respect apart from when it attempts to be funny, this no-budget sex comedy knock-off of Dino de Laurentiis’s King Kong (which itself was trying to capitalize on the success of Jaws) ‘stars’ Rula Lenska and Robin Askwith as filmmakers who venture to “Lazanga, where they do the konga.”

Wait, it gets worse: Askwith is kidnapped by the bikini-clad “Queen of the Nabongas”, before being rescued by Queen Kong, who’s portrayed by a female dancer in the world’s worst monkey suit. In order to protect him, she fights off a plastic pterodactyl and, in a scene so bad it looks like a Saturday Night Live parody, a T-Rex that knocks over the “scenery”.

Throughout the film, the score sounds like ersatz Benny Hill Show theme music, which is apt because Queen Kong is basically an overextended sketch, filled with dreadful puns (“so that’s gorilla warfare!”), casual sexism and politically incorrect ‘humour’. However, the strangest contribution to the soundtrack is the end credits song, which includes the couplet, “You would stop yelling ‘rape’/ If I was just an ordinary household ape.”