10 King Kong Movies Ranked Worst To Best
5. King Kong Escapes
Having previously pit Kong against Godzilla, Toho Studios brought the big fella back in this gloriously camp 1967 movie to fight a giant mechanical version of himself.
You see, an evil supervillain wants to acquire Element X, a radioactive element found only at the North Pole, so he builds Mechani-Kong to accomplish the task for him. What he fails to realize is that the radiation will cause the robot’s brain to shut down so he decides to kidnap the real Kong instead, and if you just thought, “I bet Kong and Mechani-Kong end up fighting”, give yourself a cigar.
A must-see for fans for badly dubbed camp nonsense, King Kong Escapes boasts some of the worst effects you’ve ever seen in a Kong movie, including a spectacularly tatty monster suit for the King himself. It is fun to watch him stomp through a toy model version of Tokyo, and how many films feature a Japanese supervillain named Dr Who?