This cheap Mexican horror film is a remake of Rene Cardona's "Doctor of Doom" (1962), spiced with nudity, medical footage, women wrestling, and cheap gore shots.Where the title comes from is anyone's guess. There is plenty of blood and gore (and nudity), and at least one ape, but there is nothing in the film that could be summed up by this title. But, who can complain when what you get is every bit as wild as that name? This is worth watching, and probably one of the better films on the notorious "video nasty" list (besides, you know, all the Fulci and Argento). For sheer entertainment value, this is top notch.

After all these years and I find I never did get to see this 'video nasty' before. Now I have, I rather wish I hadn't! First, the title and hardly any of this takes place at night, indeed the sharp colourful cinematography is probably the highlight. Also, there are no apes. Well, there is one at the zoo but what we are really talking here is 'ape man', ish! Have to confess, though, there is blood. Many inserts of extreme gory action and a little nudity but all so badly added that they have little affect. having said that, I dread to think how you could endure the flat dullness of this movie without those startling gory bits every now and again. Oh yes, and, this being Mexican there is some wrestling, fairly colourful and its girls wrestling too but what with the all over costumes and mask they might as well be guys. So to summarise, if you like disjointed sequences of fake operations and various limbs being detached with the odd sprinkling of nudity and lots and lots of silly dubbed dialogue, this is for you.

Don't wish too much from this cheap Mexploitation flick except to have a damn good time, and with a title like Night of the Bloody Apes (although there is only one ape) what would you really expect! The film is ineptly made on all accounts, some of the more hilarious aspects include the random subplot involving a female wrestler feeling sorry for another female wrestler she injured, the poor dubbing and translations and general laziness in concealing goofs (a good example being the grass moving underneath someone's body revealing the stage).The story centres on a doctor who plans to cure his son's illness by performing a heart transplant with an ape. Unfortunately this turns the son into a dirty man-ape who wanders aimlessly and maims various people.There isn't much to see in this review really, I'm not gonna do some page-long dissection of all the different filmmaking aspects when really, the bottom-line is if you enjoy Grindhouse theatre then this movie was made for you, with all its inept special effects, uneven pacing and overall oddness.2½/5

An incredibly successful combo of the Mexican 'Lucha Libre' genre with 70's style horror. And a dash of 'Mad Scientist' cliché's tossed in for spice.The original Mexican title was 'Horror y Sexo.' Tell me it doesn't fit perfectly.Great chase scenes.The gorillaman's make-up was horrible in both senses of the word. It ended at the neck. But it WAS ugly. And like a lot of classic horror films, it did make you nervous during the night scenes.The Mondo style heart surgery footage was a tinge gross. It didn't hurt the film, it didn't help either.Graphic (and I do mean GRAPHIC) violence will put some of you off. But I still liked it.