Bride of the Gorilla is a 1951 horror B-movie film written and directed by Curt Siodmak starring Raymond Burr, Lon Chaney Jr., Barbara Payton and Tom Conway.

Deep in the Latin American jungles, plantation manager Barney Chavez kills his elderly employer in order to get to his beautiful wife Dina Van Gelder.

Old native witch Al-Long (Gisela Werbisek) witnesses the crime and puts a curse on Barney, who soon after finds himself turning nightly into a rampaging gorilla-like beast.

When a superstitious police commissioner Taro is brought in to investigate the plantation owner's death, and a rash of strange animal killings, he begins to suspect that all is not as it seems.

Taro interviews local farmers who have seen the bloodthirsty animal which they identify as "Sukara", a mythical jungle demon resembling a gorilla.