This came in via email; I'm certain that the forum as a whole could identify more than 16 of these:
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I need to track down a lot of movies, at least 16, that have scenes where different kinds of monsters are shaking the bars of their cages; Color is optimum but BW is okay too.
Quick ideas:
Definite matches:
Rocky Horror bangs on the cage bars in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show"
The thing in the cell bangs on the door in "The Brain that Wouldn't Die"
The Ymir in "20 Million Miles to Earth"
"Jaws 3"
"Ice Spiders" (at the very end)
"The Dark Crystal"
"The Last Unicorn"
Films that I think contain this:
"King Kong Escapes"
"Mighty Peking Man"
"The Creature from the Black Lagoon"
"Konga"
"King Kong Lives"
"The Valley of Gwangi"
I think Trog had a scene with that.
I think The Manster (1959) had at least one scene of a mutated lady and possibly some other mutated people shaking cage bars. They might have just been grabbing the bars though. Out of curiosity, why does this person need this information?
Just wrapped up The Capture Of Bigfoot. I can confirm one small scene at the end.
Murders in the Rue Morgue has stuff like this. It's a gorilla though, dunno if that counts as a monster.
Shapeshifter has a similar scene. People are trapped in a jail, and they lock themselves in a cell for safety. The monster spends quite a bit of time rattling the bars trying to get in.
Quote from: Sleepyskull on November 10, 2009, 10:31:21 PM
Out of curiosity, why does this person need this information?
I do not know why. I would guess some sort of school project, or possibly to create a compilation as a gift to someone.
I haven't verified any of these, but I'm reasonably confident they have bar-shaking scenes:
* BELA LUGOSI MEETS A BROOKLYN GORILLA
* MIGHTY JOE YOUNG
* FRANKENSTEIN CONQUERS THE WORLD
* FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL
Not sure how definite "cage" and "bars" need to be. Would the raptors in Jurassic Park qualify (both in their cage when the power is on and in the machine room when the power is being turned back on and the doctor slams metal door shut with her feet)?
Based on what sort of thing is being looked for here, there are some less convension cages that get rattled.
a gnome named gnorm
planet of the apes
childs play
feast 2
tales from the crypt "lower Berth"
20 million miles to earth
an american werewolf in paris
Pretty sure the ape in trading places bangs on the bars.
I vaguely remember Return of Swamp Think having some scenes like that. I think Carnivore had a scene like that as well.
I think The Monster Maker has a caged gorilla (guy in a suit of course) that shakes the bars a bit.
Quote from: Jaer on November 11, 2009, 04:32:48 PM
Not sure how definite "cage" and "bars" need to be. Would the raptors in Jurassic Park qualify (both in their cage when the power is on and in the machine room when the power is being turned back on and the doctor slams metal door shut with her feet)?
Based on what sort of thing is being looked for here, there are some less convension cages that get rattled.
I'm uncertain of exactly what he will be using it for, so I'd say that any related suggestions are good. Having a little more information than you need is not a bad thing.
Quote from: Joe on November 11, 2009, 06:21:48 PM
planet of the apes
My word, how did I forget Charlton Heston in that cage, being sprayed with a firehose by a Gorilla that was yelling "Shut up, you freak!" the whole time?
Quote from: Pilgermann on November 16, 2009, 11:06:59 AM
I think The Monster Maker has a caged gorilla (guy in a suit of course) that shakes the bars a bit.
When I was brainstorming, I noticed that gorillas and apes were the ones most likely to be shaking those cage bars. I wonder what movie, book, or story made that such a universal idea: apes in cages, trying to get out.
I think the apes in cages probably has something to do with the early fears they represent, and their obvious similarity to man. We know that WE would be trying to get out of a cage, and we tend to think they're more animalistic than us, so obviously they'd be stronger and just try to break out.
Plus, if you ever see monkeys and chimps in a caged environment (usually zoo enclosures are a little less ugly now) they actually DO grab the bars and yank 'em back and forth when agitated.
If memory serves there was an ape rattling (even breaking) bars in The Bride and the Beast.
Ozzymandias speaks: The Monster Walks features a gorilla named Mr. Yogi in a cage in the basement, screaming and shaking the bars. The movie ends with Willie Best delivering the most politcally incorrect line in movie history.
Ozzymandias has spoken!!!
Im pretty sure something like that happens in "Freaked" with Alex Winter and an uncredited Keanu Reeves.
What is this all for, anyway?
Oh, and it also happens in a episode of Tales From the Crypt" called "Lower Berth".
Not a movie, but Kurtwood Smith does this in the Grotesque episode of The X Files. :smile:
Xtro 3
A monster breaks free of his door in The Brain That Wouldn't Die and attacks the doctor through the door's window.
Pretty sure several of the guys in gorilla suits did this in their heyday. Probably some who appeared in Abbott and Costello films and Three Stooges films...not sure of which now though of the top of my head.
Quote from: xXx_JaseSF_xXx on November 21, 2009, 07:38:46 PM
Pretty sure several of the guys in gorilla suits did this in their heyday. Probably some who appeared in Abbott and Costello films and Three Stooges films...not sure of which now though of the top of my head.
I'm pretty sure the Stooges short
Idle Roomers has footage of 'Lupe the Wolf Man' shaking the bars on his cage.
In the opening of It's Alive III: Island Of The Alive, the killer mutant baby not only shakes at the bars, but LITERALLY bends the bars out.