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And from that day forward, anytime a bunch of animals are together in one place, it's called a zoo!

The Work[]

Konga is a 1961 British sci-fi horror film and one of the more obvious ripoffs of King Kong. It's based on some British comic of the same name.

The Candidate[]

Dr. Charles Decker, despite being the "main character" of the film, does nothing considered heroic. At all. Case in point, he's an English botanist and university professor who returns to London after being presumed dead in Africa for over a year. He was involved in a plane crash and would have died alone in the jungle if a baby chimp didn't lead him to a village where he was rescued. While away, he comes across carnivorous plants with unique growing abilities that make them grow at a rapid pace. He believes that he could stimulate the growth of the plant cells and converge them into animal cells, something that will revolutionize evolution. For his research, he comes back home with multiple species of the plants and the chimp who he names Konga.

He began his research by extracting chemicals from the plant leaves. The serum boils over, which is lapped by Tabby, Margaret's (his assistant and girlfriend) cat. Decker doesn't want Tabby there and reacts by SHOOTING the dang thing. Once his serum is complete, he injects it into Konga, turning him adult-sized. The next day, Decker is called to the office of Dean Foster, his college's principal. Foster tells Decker to go on hiatus with his research, fearing that the college may earn bad revenue thanks to Decker's declaration of revolutionizing evolution. Angered, Decker doubles the dosage of the serum into Kongo, turning him gorilla-sized. He uses his plants to hypnotize Konga to kill Foster, which he does. Margaret becomes suspicious of Decker's plans and is silenced when Decker proposes to her.

Sometime later, there is a party at Decker's house. A botanist named Professor Tagore reveals to Decker that he too he researching stimulating growth. Decker offers a negotiation to work together for a common goal. Tagore declines but insists that Decker come to his house around midnight to take notes of his experiments. Indeed Decker would come near midnight, but with Konga. Wanting to be acclaimed first for his findings, Decker hypnotizes Konga to kill Tagore and destroy his laboratory.

The next day Decker would return to the college. During this time, Decker would find himself lusting over one of his students, Sandra Banks. While taking his class on a field trip to collect mosses and ferns in the nearby woods, Bob Kenton, Sandra's boyfriend, confronts Decker on his intimacy with Sandra and demands him to leave her alone. This escalates into a brawl where Bob nearly strangles Decker to death, only stopping when Sandra tells him to get off him. Desiring Sandra for himself, Decker sends Konga out to kill Bob, which he does while Bob was preparing for a date with Sandra.

Wanting to keep any suspicion away from him, Decker goes to comfort the grieving Sandra after Bob's funeral. Taking her to his greenhouse, he requests her to become his new assistant. She refuses, which ticks off Decker and reacts by throwing her on the ground and attempts to... oh god. Unbeknownst to the two, Margaret was eavesdropping and infuriated that Decker was cheating on her. She triples the dosage to Konga, turning him into a giant and demands him to kill Decker and Sandra, only to be thrown into a fire (Fun fact, the man in the ape costume throws a doll wearing Margaret's dress. Yeah, the effects in this film are THAT bad). Konga grabs Decker before he could do any physical harm to Sandra and goes on a rampage through London while Sandra loses her arm to one of Decker's plants. Since there's no Empire State Building to climb, Konga throws Decker to his death in front of Big Ben. The British army then shoots down Konga, and his death turns him back into a baby chimp. Huh.

The Factors[]

Nope. He only views Konga as a tool to get away with his murders, and near the end, states his intentions of killing him to cover his tracks, saying that there are millions of other apes to experiment on in Africa. What makes this more heinous is that Konga saved his life in the jungle, and using him for cruel experimentations is what he got in return.

For Margaret, he only views her as an assistant and only offered to marry her only so she wouldn't contact the police. He even tells Sandra that he would throw Margaret under a bus so he could have Sandra only. Oh yeah, and he shoots her cat.

For Sandra, it's very clear that his love for her is completely nothing but perversion, as he was willing to RAPE her to claim her as his own.

The novelization gives him a single redeeming quality where Decker attempts to save Sandra after her arm is caught in the giant venus flytrap. We can ignore this since the novel was written by people who had no involvement in the film.

The Standards[]

Sets it, as he's the mastermind behind the murders. Konga is a non-malicious primate that was hypnotized and abused into becoming a violent monster against his will.

The Verdict[]

While he claims that he will revolutionize the evolution of humanity, his cruelties to his animals and students show that he's just after the praise to satisfy his ego. I think he does enough to qualify.

Yes: 4
No: 0
Undecided: 0
Final Score: +4
Verdict: Pure Evil

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