The King Kong Movie From 1986 That Everyone Forgot About
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- King Kong Lives is a 1986 science fiction action movie directed by John Guillerman. It stars Linda Hamilton in a story about the monster finding love with Lady Kong! The Queen of the jungle who also has a son. This was after the Toho Godzilla movies and the 1976 remake with Jessica Lange. This is a film that deserves cult classic status! It’s so insane it’s great!
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3:22 "GAH!!"
Edit: Oh God, I just noticed it was his legs sticking out of the ground at 3:28 😂
Fun fact, Peter Cullen (the iconic voice of Optimus Prime and many other creatures & characters throughout the years) actually voices Kong in one of these 80s Kong movies! I don't recall if it is this first one, or it's sequel, but it's cool trivia!
Yeah, he strained his voice, doing Kongs roars. A thing called blood throats, he talks about it when he goes over how he made the Predators clicks.
Didnt he also voiced back in 1976 too?
It’s the ‘76 version. During the fight between Kong and the giant Python, listen to Kong as he heaves the snake’s dead body up, he sounds almost exactly like Optimus Prime there 😂😅
I thought I recognized Kongs rawr
King Kong Lives is the only Kong movie made in the 80's.
I saw this movie as a kid, and I loved it. the scene where King Kong gets some dude's hat stuck in his teeth was always my go-to memory for this movie.
As a kid, I remember a classmate telling me he saw a King Kong movie where Kong ripped a guy in half and ate people. I thought he was lying since I was under the impression I had seen every Kong movie. I guess I owe him an apology.
This movie is great, I loved it as a kid and yes he eats people and there is a bit that always makes me laugh and it's when he picks a guys hat out of his teeth
I saw it when I was a teenager. I love the scene where he tears the little man in half! ❤️
This was actually my first Kong movie. Used to rent this and Godzilla 1985 routinely in the late 80s and early 90s.
Dude Rick Baker won an Oscar for visual effects for the 76 Kong. That suit was incredible.
I agree, not sure why this guy trashed the '76 suit, and they DID use animatronics.
My late Big Brother give me a book called making a monster it has a segment in there about King Kong and Rick Baker
Actually, he didn't. While it was largely Baker's work that made KONG believable, it was Carlo Rambaldi, Glen Robinson, and Joe Day who took home Oscars for KING KONG.
he shows some of the worst special effect alternative examples possible and wonders why it was not used.
This suit and the Rick Baker suit are truly evil looking. Always loved these two films. Grew up watching them on Monster Quest on TNT in the early 90's. The part where Kong breaks out of the hospital facility always freaked me out as a kid!
The Rick Baker suit and King Kong were almost in the third Heisei era Godzilla film which was supposed to be a remake of King Kong vs Godzilla
to celibrate the 30th anniversary of the original film. The Rick Baker version of Kong from 1976 was supposed to be used in the film.
TOHO reached out to Rick Baker to supervise the Kong suit and visual effects. Unfortunatley there were rights issues for the Kong character
being hashed out in court in the 80's with Universal Studios,RKO Pictures,the Merian Cooper estate, and Dino De Laurentiis,all having a degree
of ownership of the property. The King Kong-Godzilla rematch fell apart, so TOHO changed the third Heisei film into Godzilla vs King Ghidorah.
@@TheLAGopher Nice. I remember buying King Kong vs. Godzilla in the late 90's on VHS, and they had the Rick Baker Kong suit on the front of the slip cover. Total False advertising LOL I though I was getting a new Kong vs. Godzilla movie I'd never seen. It's too bad they didn't just keep making Kong vs. Godzilla movies. The first one (1962) is absolutely hilarious.
@TheLAGopher That was my dream in the early 90's when I found bootleg Godzilla films from a place called Vicious Video.
Early 90's Godzilla and '76 Kong were the best versions ever.
This movie may have not been great but the ending when Kong sees his son as hes dying still gets me to this day. 😢
This was my first Kong movie as a kid. The suit is still one of my favorites and i feel super underated in how iconic and terrifying it is. Or at least how it seemed to me as a 3 yr old.
I agree with you! I was 3 years old going with my parents to the movie theater to see the 1976 King Kong and it was the start of my fascination with Kong, and all things monsters and Kaiju!!! So I naturally was excited 10 years later as a 13 year old with a huge monster and horror collection already with tons of Kong merch to go see King Kong Lives!!! I saw it 3 times at the theater and I probably am the record holder for times paying to see if at the cinema lol. But by the time I owned it on VHS I and my friends would do Kong marathons of King Kong 1933, Toho Kong films, 1976 Kong, and 1986 Kong lives!!! We always enjoyed the fun we had!
This was actually the first Kong movie I ever saw.😂
Same here. 😅
Absolutely one of my all-time favorite King Kong movies
I love it too! Saw it opening day at the theater and when it was on vhs I wore out by copies of Kong 1976 and Kong Lives 1986!!!!
Most people don't know about Son of Kong either.
I actually love that one
Actually a pretty good sequal
This sequel makes me greatly appreciate the 1976 film, and I'm not too crazy on that version...
I used to watch it all the time as a kid. My view on it has changed but I still have some enjoyment from it.
As an Appalachian, easily the funniest part of this movie is when Kong feasts on alligators in the North Georgia mountain swamps. There are no alligators here.
The frog cringing at him breaking their backs always kills me 😂😭
They used real baby alligators with their big bulging eyes and expected us to believe they were full size alligators!
There are no giant gorilla monsters either
Well not anymore after Kong ate them all....lol
There are now occasionally
Kong starts acting "bananas", huh? 🤣
The joke seems to be pretty appealing for some.
Wow, I remember seeing this as a kid. All my memories just flooded back seeing this
I saw the clip of Kong ripping a dude in half on ages ago. Since I was just a kid, it freaked me out. Glad to finally know which film this was, thanks!
I love this movie it’s so sad at the ending I tried to get my kids to watch it they both laughed at me and went to there rooms lmao 😂😂😂
Oh man! 😂
1986: Took a date to the theater to see this - it was a good time. The cinema army officer is out looking for Kong (a 60 foot tall gorilla) and he's looking through his binoculars. I always thought Kong'd be easy enough to spot unaided.
I recall having my dad rent this for me when it first hit VHS. Even as a kid this movie was cheesy, but I also liked it. Though I had kind of forgotten about it until I watched this, which brought it all back.
Prominently featured in "The Big Hit" as the overdue rental VHS movie that becomes a minor plot device to move the story to the climax.
That was hilarious!
Fun Fact: There were two video games based on this film, both of which were developed and published by Konami, and released more or less simultaneously in December 1986, exclusively in Japan (where the film had been released under the title _King Kong 2_ ). The first game, _King Kong 2: Ikari no Megaton Punch_ ( _'King Kong 2: The Furious Megaton Punch'_ ), was released on the Famicom, and is an overhead action/exploration game in which the player controls Kong himself, who traverses various areas with the goal of freeing Lady Kong from captivity, as in the film. The second game, which is arguably even _more_ obscure, was released on the MSX2, and is called _King Kong 2: Yomigaeru Densetsu_ ( _'King Kong 2: Revived Legend'_ ). This title is an action RPG in which the player controls Hank Mitchell (i.e., the character played by Brian Kerwin in the film). Both games are (in my opinion) fairly solid, if not spectacular, but are perhaps more interesting as historical oddities than anything else.
Never I’ll never forget the old classic kaiju movies
I seen it few weeks ago, i actually enjoyed it, especially loved the fact it more focuse on kong
He was certainly more Interesting than any of the Other Dullards in the film.
I watched this non stop as a kid!
i saw it late at night on tv at grandmas house it was on after letterman and i decided too watch it thought it was good but i actually enjoy cheesy monster flicks as well as big budget ones am a huge godzilla fan too of old and new films
I saw KING KONG LIVES at the theatre on my birthday in 1986. I also saw the ‘76 remake on my birthday in 1976. I should have a birthday every year!
I've loved this movie ever since i first saw it in 1996 when i was 16. I own a VHS copy today of it. Thanks for the great video on it.
I'm a pretty huge fan of the 1976 original as well as most of the kong movies... This one kind of broke my heart. Because I loved the 1976 movie so much it was the first movie theatres I was looking forward to seeing this and boy did they mess it up. First off the way they used the suit is totally different than the way they did it in the remake. The cinematography was under crank in order for Kong to look like he was lumbering... They use this effect on The Incredible Hulk show... But they forgot to do this for king Kong lives and the result is it looks like a guy in a suit.
They also changed King Kong's roar which doesn't make any sense... In 1976 he had a very particular sounding roar and they completely changed it. The movie cost 10 million dollars in 1986 while the movie in 1976 cost 25 million. Think about that for a minute. It does have a pretty good film score by John Scott And a couple decent action scenes... But over all this movie is just that poorly done.
Another Cheap Dino De Horrendous Production.
Bought to you by the Guy who didn't want to have Dinosaurs in the first film.
King Kong lives is my second favorite King Kong movie
This was one of my favorite movies when I was a kid
This movie has been acknowledged
I used to watch this on TNT all the time - much better in my book than 1976
I watched it for the first time a few years ago, this one was....something.
That's uhh putting it... well.. in a way. Lol
I've seen this one way too often as a kid, because we taped it from tv and then I just took what I could get. Haven't seen it since I was about 11, though.
This was one of my comfort movies as a kid
This movie sounds so insane!
It Is.
I never forgot about it!!! Big fan of the De Laurentiis Kong movies right here! 😃
I used to watch this on VHS while growing up in El Salvador. Thanks for reminding me of my childhood and cheers!!!
Absolutely love this movie. I actually have a figure of it on my shelf custom-made.
Saw it when it was in the theatre and several times since. Definitely one of those "it's so bad it's good"!
Ok, so a bit of history for you young people who weren't there for either of the deLaurentiis Kong movies...
The 76 Kong was sold BIG. It was HUGE - and in many ways it was solid, too. The curiosity also was immense, which probably helped a lot for the initial figures. I remember seeing it in a theater, a nice BIG one with superb sound, and it kinda worked. Back in those days, it almost didn't matter if it was stop motion or a guy in a suit, it was whether the effect was spectacular and didn't suck too much (unlike today, where people seem to have hissy fits over the slightest mismatch or something). It wasn't that we were't demanding as an audience, we KNEW the technology at the time couldn't deliver.
That's it.
THEN came the 80s.
Some films - even then - were too 80s and unwatchable: obvious 'rock' songs about running from bad boys into the shadow down the boulevard at midnight in a small town or somesuch synthetic crap... stuff like Kong Lives though were caught in a timewarp - the STYLE of script, editing and vis f/x were too late 60s/70s and just didn't fit with the zeitgeist.
So enjoy it with every fiber of your being, because for all its flaws, it's STILL better than the awfulness of a John Hughes teen movie (yeah, I said it - the only thing that sucks more than they is The Goonies; shouty brats they were).
I remember watching this one on public TV back in the days. As a Kong fan I was pumped to see his offspring there to carry the mantle. 😅
i watched.. most of .. the Jeff Bridges King Kong.
Man.
Two ahours I'll never get back.
I think the moment that the movie lost me was when King Kong showed up. Any kind of interest that I had was gone and it never returned.
I used to like this movie when i was 5.
It was so bad that , it was unforgettable ..... King Kong 1976 is one of my best movie with the best story ever, has Kink Kong 1986 is the complete opposite ...
Kink Kong? Was that the one BEHIND the red doors? 😂
This was my favorite movie as a lil boy I have it on DVD
This was my first Kong movie when I was a little boy. For me, the definitive version of him. All time guilty pleasure 😅
Mine was being 3 years old going to the movie theater for the opening day of King Kong 1976 with my parents. It started my lifelong obsession with Kong, Godzilla, and everything horror and monsters!!! So I loved it in 1986 when we went opening day to see Kong Lives!!! I love both these Kong movies. My favorite Kong along with the Monsterverse Kong films!!!
Use to watch this everyday as a kid
Haven't seen it since I was a kid. I remember watching it a lot back then. I was a bit of a Rampage fan so Godzilla NES and Kong Kong Lives were part of my daily grind. 🤣
I remember finding this on tv years and years ago during the scene where they're sawing his chest open to do the heart transplant. That specific scene really stuck with me all these years for some reason
I have very vague memories of watching this with my mom when I was a kid, I would love to revisit it now as an adult fully aware of it’s cheese lol great video as always 👍
I remeber watching this with my parents in the 80s. And it made an impression on me. The heart, the kid..it all seemed like a serious story to me. I dont think I ever saw it again. Maybe for the best :))
I remember the simple VHS cover of a snarling Kong and the movie title under it on a black background.
John Scott’s score is terrific!
I didn't forget about this movie...
How can you forget a Movie in which they Operate on King Kong using Surgical Tools the Size of Motorcycles?
I’ve loved this movie since I was a kid.
I love how Kong is in a coma. Nevermind that every bone in his body would have been shattered, and his organs would be jello.
I didn't forget, the 70s nor the 80s, and as a kid i enjoyed them as much as the original 50s movie. Lives was probably my favourite at one stage, the heart transplant scene was crazy.
I used to hire it on video over and over. Loved it.
Less forgotten and more blocked from memory.
Kong is no Sidekick.
Kong is the brains, Godzilla is the muscle.
This film is one of my biggest guilty pleasures ever.
Actually King Kong Lives was my first Kong movie I ever saw. I saw it on TV years ago. I don't recall hating it, but I don't really remember anything about it.
Hit the nail on the head. Its debatable if its the worst Kong film, but its a strangely fun watch. Helps if you saw it on tv back in the day like I did
I loved this as a kid and always watched it. I love it when he picks that guys hat out of his teeth 🤣
I didn’t forget it. Love it. Screened it a few months back for my cinema club.
I love it, at least this movie is funny and it doesn't kill your favorite character off screen like Jaws 4.
Hey Klayton! One thing I love about King Kong Lives is that it’s the last time we see practical Kong special effects! The last time seeing Kong as a man in a suit tho it’s weird how Kong was walking Biped in 1976, and now he’s walking on all 4s. Story wise it’s all over the place, I love Linda Hamilton tho!
I loved this as a kid! I remember crying at the end of this one too! Now seeing this as an adult and it's SO SILLY AND I LOVE IT! I KNOW ITS A BAD MOVIE....but I love cheese 😄 Love that Kong and Godzilla are doing awesome now. I also loved Orca too! You pick some great flicks!
Kong in this is really a Terminator in disguise.
I absolutely loved this flick!!! Rented purely for my “Terminator crush” Linda Hamilton, it was stupid monster fun. Loved it.
I still love the scene where he steps on a Lamborghini and the doors stay up but the car is flat.
This movie is AMAZNG! I can't believe people don't talk about this one. The heart transplant in the beginning is insane
Saw this movie in the theatre when I was a kid. What a nostalgic bowl of turds. The best part might be when if you look closely at the military men on the hill in one shot they actually used cardboard cut-outs of the army men in the background rather than hiring extras. Great video!
Kong Lives! I havent forgotten it. I am surprised its never on Tubi or live tv.
OMG! 😱
This was the first King Kong movie I ever watched. I was 6 years old.
Most ppl dont even talk about the sequel to the original Son of kong😢
There was a third one?
@@dubuyajay9964 a sequel to king Kong a second one but in total yes 3
@@bloodeagle6458 What came after "Son of Kong?"
@@dubuyajay9964 the 70s remake then this one here
Don't forget Mighty Joe Young.
That was made by the Same Director as King Kong.
Saw this in the theater. An hour and forty-five minutes of my life I can never get back.
Yeah, this is the King Kong movie where King Kong tears the 82nd Airborne a new one. Also, he really needs some heart medication❤
My main issue with the film is that it could’ve dived into how the land where lady Kong is doing, and how we could’ve see other creatures ( that would’ve made up for the lack of creatures in the first film ). But they just missed that opportunity
This is the first movie I ever saw in a theater. I will never forget it :)
My aunt introduced me to sci-fi/horror around 6/7 yo (she was a super cool woman rip) I had spent the night @ her and my Nana's house one weekend and we went to the video store and got 5 movies... This gem right here lol, King Kong 76, Godzilla 85, Jaws and Jaws2. Got to set up a blanket fort in the living room and had ice cream and popcorn and we watched all the movies from Friday night all the way into Saturday morning. So KK Lives has a special place in my heart lol Awesome memory that I'll never forget!!!
This just feels almost like Texas Chainsaw Massacre 4. Where it was made, shelved and after its star(s) blew up they released it. It might not be the case but damn Linda Hamiltons agent for hooking her up with this if it was genuinely made post Terminator.
I saw this movie as a kid and almost completely forgot about it.
Saw it again as an adult and wanted to forget about it again!
And then somebody on youtube is coming around the corner reminding me. Well thanks for nothing! 😅
I never forgot about it.
Saw it in 1986 with my dad! We liked it! It was so corny we loved it!
there's a reason it was forgotten about. LOL
Oh I’ve seen this lol. I rewatched it all the time on vhs. Good times. I miss them.
It's funny when I was 6 and I was getting pumped for PJs Kong movie (btw I got a video coming out soon, I nabbed some 24 yr old Kong candy). I got the 33 film,76 film, and King of Atlantis animated movie. I watched the og on repeat constantly. I watched 76 once and didn't watch it again for like 10 years 😅.
I remember watching this on VHS when I was a kid. I haven’t thought about this movie in close to 20 years 😂 Thank you for making a video on it!
I hated this movie. Showed humans in such a very...true. Negative light.
I used to think the special effects were amazing when I would watch this on a small tv when I was a kid.
I didn't forget about it. I actually went to see this in the theater.😂
I never forgot about this movie. So when I was a wee one, when my parents were at work my aunt would sometimes take me to the movie theater to see stuff. Due to my father's influence I loved giant monster movies at a young age (via the path from dinosaurs due to these series of books my parents gave me which branched into a love of kaiju films due to my father telling me at four years old.
Father: You love dinosaurs yes?
Young me: *nods enthastically*
Father: Let me introduce you to a BIG dinosaur who breathes fire.
So my dad showed me Godzilla films on WGN and later on taped a bunch for me when we got a VCR (Godzilla starring Raymond Burr, Godzilla vs. the Thing, Ghidorah: The Three-Headed Monster, Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster, and Godzilla vs. Gigan). I watched those tapes so much that they wore out in just a few years. This is coming from tapes that had the Star Wars Trilogy, MoTU, Universal Horror films (Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, and Son of Frankenstein), and Ghostbusters. The Godzilla tape was THE tape for me.
Back to the point.
I saw this movie in the same theater I saw Godzilla 1985 in when I was five years old. It was a run-down theater (it closed down shortly after Beauty and the Beast came out). But the memories of this film still stick in me (though not as much compared to Godzilla 1985. That one was an EXPERIENCE). Still, the things I remembered most about this film were how dark it was (I don't think I saw the 70s Kong movie at that point), how Kong just OWNED the military after him, and man the actor who played the head military man CHEWED that scenery UP.
A friend gave me the film on DVD as a birthday gift. I watched it once and man it's one of those movies that did not age well when rewatching it. Save the military guy who I found out later on was played by John Ashton (from Midnight Run and the first two Beverly Hill Cop movies). The dude understood the assignment to perfection.
lol I loved King Kong lives when I was a kid . I use to rent it all the time at the convenient store around the corner from my house all the time . lol it was a masterpiece to an 8 year old me
I really enjoyed this movie when I was a child.
I am actually one of the few people that actually likes this particular King Kong Movie. I saw it way back in '92(?) after renting it at the video store. Still love the scene when Kong steps on the Ferrari.
Kong smashed Taggert from Beverly Hills Cop😂😂