“King Kong” (RKO, 1933). Concept art

This scene of Kong shaking sailors off the log bridge led to the infamous "Bug Pit" scene. It was a graphic scene showing the sailors who fell into the ravine being eaten alive by giant spiders. According to IMDb:

"At the preview screening, audience members screamed, and either left the theater or talked about the grisly sequence throughout the subsequent scenes, disrupting the film. Merian C. Cooper said, 'It stopped the picture cold, so the next day back at the studio, I took it out myself.'"

That grisly Bug Pit sequence hasn't been seen since -- that is, until 2005 when Peter Jackson made his own version of the film. He recreated the sequence in the style of the 1933 film:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOMKnhN7ABs

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Taken on: September 6, 2022

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