Winters”) as a young woman caught up in a love triangle with her aggressive boyfriend and a wild ape-man on an imaginary tropical island.

The ape-suit was created by Rick Baker and Rob Bottin, with special effects contributions from Steve Johnson.

Tanya is a female model in Toronto who lives with her boyfriend Lobo, a surrealist painter who is extremely violent.

Soon she begins to feels a strange attraction to the creature, which makes Lobo increasingly jealous in the real world.

[3] As Baker wanted to create something new and exotic, he opted for a mixture of baboon and orangutan which he nicknamed a "Boom-Orang.