okay honey, so here is the context for you.... this is the opening to a malaysian kid's musical fantasy film called "the rare blue apes of cannibal island" (other names include "cap'n krock and the rare blue apes" "mr. quack quack and the rare blue ape" or "pirates of cannibal isle") it's said to have been released in 1974 (although some sources, like imdb, claim it was released in '75. a blogspot site called "temple of schlock" has a print ad for the movie, which was seen in newspapers and magazines circa. 1975.) it's basically about a young boy who runs away from home with his pet duck mr. quack-quack, before long, they both run into a gang of talking alligator-men called " the swampies," played by adult human actors in big, mascot heads. the boy and his duck are chased through the swamp by the alligator-people and eventually meet a blue gorilla named hotchi. hotchi is part of a small colony of "rare blue apes" oppressed by the cruel swampies. the gorillas are also played by actors wearing big mascot heads. it was the only known g-rated film of director donn greer, who built a career making s*xploitation films throughout the 60's and 70's. it's basically sid and marty krofft meets david lynch, in equal parts sinister and psychedelic. it feels like the type of unintentionally unnerving forgotten kid's media that you'd see in a blameitonjorge video. it was actually lost media for decades until it was eventually unearthed by cult film distributor "vinegar syndrome films" as part of their recent bluray boxset called "the lost picture show", which contains blue apes in full as well as 9 OTHER LOST FILMS. while i definitely respect the act of uncovering and preserving lost media, i personally can't recommend the bluray set, APART from blue apes itself, the other 9 films on the bluray set are all sleazy, shocking schlock with lots of s*xual content and gore, not my cup of tea whatsoever but i would be quite interested in seeing blue apes actually. i hope that one day, rare blue apes.will get it's own separate, standalone release or it will get released to a streaming platform of some kind like criterion.
@@adora_lovely Me, personally? I want all the movies on the set. It's a bit too high of a price tag me for me at the moment, but if I had to pick one movie from it to buy individually, it would be Rare Blue Apes. I love grindhouse exploitation cinema but weird ass cheapo matinee kids movies are fascinating to me.
I’m confused about when this came out. When it goes to the title card, it says it’s from 1975. But when it goes to the sound title card among past the other cast and crew title cards, it says it’s from 1973. Threw me off just a bit.
i don't have a definite release date. im going by with what vinegar syndrome has gone with (1974). the film was re-released under different titles many times over the years
Interesting find. Do you have more of it?
okay honey, so here is the context for you....
this is the opening to a malaysian kid's musical fantasy film called "the rare blue apes of cannibal island"
(other names include "cap'n krock and the rare blue apes" "mr. quack quack and the rare blue ape" or "pirates of cannibal isle")
it's said to have been released in 1974 (although some sources, like imdb, claim it was released in '75. a blogspot site called "temple of schlock" has a print ad for the movie, which was seen in newspapers and magazines circa. 1975.)
it's basically about a young boy who runs away from home with his pet duck mr. quack-quack, before long, they both run into a gang of talking alligator-men called " the swampies," played by adult human actors in big, mascot heads.
the boy and his duck are chased through the swamp by the alligator-people and eventually meet a blue gorilla named hotchi. hotchi is part of a small colony of "rare blue apes" oppressed by the cruel swampies. the gorillas are also played by actors wearing big mascot heads.
it was the only known g-rated film of director donn greer, who built a career making s*xploitation films throughout the 60's and 70's.
it's basically sid and marty krofft meets david lynch, in equal parts sinister and psychedelic. it feels like the type of unintentionally unnerving forgotten kid's media that you'd see in a blameitonjorge video.
it was actually lost media for decades until it was eventually unearthed by cult film distributor "vinegar syndrome films" as part of their recent bluray boxset called "the lost picture show", which contains blue apes in full as well as 9 OTHER LOST FILMS.
while i definitely respect the act of uncovering and preserving lost media, i personally can't recommend the bluray set, APART from blue apes itself, the other 9 films on the bluray set are all sleazy, shocking schlock with lots of s*xual content and gore, not my cup of tea whatsoever but i would be quite interested in seeing blue apes actually.
i hope that one day, rare blue apes.will get it's own separate, standalone release or it will get released to a streaming platform of some kind like criterion.
@@adora_lovely Me, personally? I want all the movies on the set. It's a bit too high of a price tag me for me at the moment, but if I had to pick one movie from it to buy individually, it would be Rare Blue Apes.
I love grindhouse exploitation cinema but weird ass cheapo matinee kids movies are fascinating to me.
Unrelated, but have you watched Balto and/or its sequels?
I’m confused about when this came out. When it goes to the title card, it says it’s from 1975. But when it goes to the sound title card among past the other cast and crew title cards, it says it’s from 1973. Threw me off just a bit.
i don't have a definite release date. im going by with what vinegar syndrome has gone with (1974). the film was re-released under different titles many times over the years
this is amazing footage, amber ? how did you aquire it ? did you get this footage from the vinegar syndrome lost picture show blu-ray boxset ?
yes