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Who came up with this title??
Well I don;t know what it was like in 1932, but in 2007, this movie is about as scary as a bowl of Raisin Bran. And who came up with the title? First of all there is no monster, only a chimpanzee in a cage in the basement. And the mastermind behind the murders does not even walk! He's in a wheelchair! <
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>The plot is simple enough, a dude dies and the will is read. The daughter got everything, but if something happens to her, than the dead man's brother gets everything, hmmmmm. Time to kill the girl. <
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>So we have a hand coming out of a headboard of a bed to strangle her, and we have a picture that moves to reveal a peephole. That about all the fright you'll get out of this. Can you handel it?? <
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>Actually the dude who is doing the killing has himself set up with a pretty clever alibi. But you have to look for it. While he is killing, he makes like he is playing a violin in his room. But it is actually a phonograph providing the music. Then there is a little silohuette of a figure playing a violin. There is a light shining behind it to project a shadow on the window of the door. The siloheutte even moves by means of the phonograph, check it out. <
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>Well the killer (who accidently kills his mom) is now trying to kill the girl. Does he just kill her in the same fashion he accidently kills his mom? Of course not. He ties her to a pole and whips the chimp in the cage to work him into a frenzy. Unfortunatly for him, the chimp reaches through the bars and chokes him after a little tug-o-war with the whip. Yeah, this is pretty realistic. <
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>There is a little comedy relief in Exodus the driver. He is a black man, but he might as well be a white guy in blackface doing racist jokes in a minstral show. If Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson had been around back then, the Rainbow Coalition would have picketted this flick.

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The Monkey Squawks...
THE MONSTER WALKS is a perfect sub-zero budget fright feast! There's a big house full of secret passages, a raging thunderstorm, creepy servants, a dead guy in an upstairs bedroom, a lurking killer, and a crazed chimpanzee in the basement (this mad ape has a shriek that'll pucker up your armpits)! Mischa Auer lumbers along in his usual way, proving once again that he is the poor man's Boris Lugosi / Bela Karloff. While there are no true monsters in this movie, I still found it enjoyable enough for repeat viewings. Show it at your next horror ho-down...

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Not As Bad As You Might Think
Not a horror picture, despite the title, but an Old-fashioned Dark House mystery where the murders are blamed on the late owner's ape (actually a chimp). The real murderer is Mischa Auer in an early role, far removed from the snobbish and refined characters he would later play. Rex Lease, a survivor of the silent era, is the nominal star (he would go on to appear in over 200 films, mostly westerns, and sometimes uncredited), along with Vera Reynolds, another silent film star who career ended shortly thereafter. The direction is static and the acting sometimes laughable, except for Willie Best, who plays the driver, Exodus. Best (here billed as Sleep `n' Eat, a name he frequently worked under in the early 30s) is again playing the cowardly stereotype, but his acting is heads and tails above the others, even Mischa Auer, who here appears as if he will never work again. A good example of early 30s low-budget film making and recommended for all film buffs.