That was a guy under a gorilla costume? I might believe it if you were to say the same thing about the balrog in THE LORD OF THE RINGS, but not this great film. Every second of every minute of THE APE is filled with ferocious excitement and intellectual scientific discussion. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a communist. If I was a college professor, I would probably make my students write paper after paper on this movie and not let them graduate until developing a deep appreciation for the incredible dedication psychotic killers have for their craft. If you are mad and feel the urge to kill you might as well win a Nobel prize. Boris Karloff may surprise you in the role of a mad/deranged character.