Kongsploitation

Kongsploitation is a giant monster exploitation movie subgenre based on King Kong, that are either from Hong Kong, United Kingdom, United States, Canada and South Korea are plagiarized or rip-off imitations similar from King Kong. The same is similar to Sharksploitation, Bruceploitation, Blaxploitation, Turksploitation, etc.

List of Kongsploitation movies

Noted examples of Kongsploitation movies include:

  • Unknown Island (1948)
  • Mighty Joe Young (1949 and 1998)
  • Konga and Konga TNT (1961 and 2020)
  • Shikari (1963)
  • The Mighty Gorga (1969)
  • King Kung Fu (1976, 1987)
  • A.P.E (1976)
  • Queen Kong (1976)
  • The Mighty Peking Man a.k.a. Goliathon or Gorilla King (1977)
  • Yeti: Giant of the 20th Century (1977)
  • King of the Lost World (2005)
  • Bigfoot (2012)
  • Rampage (2018)
  • Ape vs. Monster and Ape vs. Mecha-Ape (2021 and 2023)

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