{"id":32289,"date":"2023-03-26T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=32289"},"modified":"2023-03-26T10:42:23","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T14:42:23","slug":"the-apeman-1943-starring-bela-lugosi-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=32289","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Apeman&#8221; (1943) starring Bela Lugosi \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z032623zview_apeman.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"763\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Apeman <\/strong><\/em>(1943)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>William Beaudine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Writer:\u00a0<strong>Barney Sarecky<\/strong> based on the short story <em>They Creep in the Dark<\/em>\u00a0by Karl Brown<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Bela Lugosi, Wallace Ford, Minerva Urecal <\/strong>and <strong>Ernest Morrison<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0<em> No one is safe from the cruel desires of this inhuman fiend!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr. James Brewster (Lugosi) accidentally turned himself into a apeman.\u00a0 The only cure is to inject himself with human spinal fluid. Unfortunately the process kills the donor.\u00a0 That matters little to Brewster, who needs more spinal fluid!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While <em>The Apeman<\/em> is supposed to be a horror movie, it falls far short of being frightening.\u00a0 Lugosi looks like an old 1950s beatnik.\u00a0 His gorilla is one of the all-time worst movie apes.\u00a0 The only reason to watch is if you&#8217;re an Lugosi completist&#8230; and even then you might reconsider.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"><strong><em>The Apeman <\/em><\/strong>(1943) rates 2 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z032623zview_apeman2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Apeman (1943) Director: William Beaudine Writer:\u00a0Barney Sarecky based on the short story They Creep in the Dark\u00a0by Karl Brown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,53,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32437,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32289\/revisions\/32437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}