King Kong Archives - Desperate Living

Our latest collection of video features from our YouTube channel covers everything from banned books to Disney novelties.

A shameless King Kong copycat novel from 1976.

The ultimate visual guide to the King of the Monsters.

The Seventies remake of King Kong has been much maligned over the years. We make the case for the defence.

Celebrating the tatty brilliance of the traditional monster movie ape suit.

It’s lycanthrope vs lizard in this unreleased, unfinished clash of the monster movie titans.

Continuing our crime month with a look at a trio of early British films based on the novels by the master of the genre.

A collection of movie posters that promised patrons something rather different than the film that they would eventually see.

The mad folly of the psychedelic, spectoramic, Futursound-enhanced 1977 Italian version of the Japanese monster movie classic.

The too-good-to-be-true monster magazine ads of the 1960s and 70s.

The antics of an animated giant ape were too much for the BBFC.