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Bad Gorilla MoviesChronicling some of cinema's worst ape suits.

Posted Monday, Jan. 23, 2006, at 12:32 PM ET

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On today's Slate podcast, we offer a service to those who need a gorilla fix but just can't wait for Peter Jackson's King Kong to be released on DVD. It turns out that both talented and painfully untalented filmmakers around the world have been drawn to great apes for decades.

Our guide to the genre is Mark Jordan Legan, Hollywood writer, bad-film buff, and the man behind the weekly "Summary Judgment" segment for Slate and NPR's Day to Day. Mark says the holy grail of bad gorilla movies is Queen Kong, which was never released due to threats of a lawsuit.

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