King Kong

King Kong is a fictional character created for the 1933 movie of the same name. He is a 200ft tall Gorilla that has grown on an island where dinosaurs still exist. King Kong is now a firm part of Western folk culture and has a similar place in fiction as the likes of Dracula or Spiderman.

There are very few works of cinema that stand up to repeated viewings and decades of changing film mores and audience expectations. Most notable among these is the classic King Kong.

Since the 1933 original the movie has been remade or parodied many time. The notable remakes are the 1976 remake and more recently Peter Jackson’s 2005 remake.