The plot of the film revolves around a series of murders committed by a man in an ape suit.

Marcel - A man in an ape suit.

Since home-movie stock does not clearly record details at a distance, it is argued that if the film was faked, the ape suit did not have to be unusually elaborate.

For example, John Wilson claims that the ape suit used in the film "looks more like your grandmother's lamb's wool coat collar than an actual simian."

Eventually the gang ends up leaving the forest due to a skunk spraying the area, not the bootlegger in the ape suit.

Fuminori Ohashi, who would later create the suit for Godzilla in the original 1954 film, created the ape suit and special effects for this film.

Rick Baker, who designed the ape suit along with Carlo Rambaldi, was extremely disappointed in the final suit, which he felt wasn't at all convincing.

In the end, Kong was mostly a guy in an ape suit.

Heironimus was a tall (6' 2), muscular Yakima, Washington, native, age 26, when he says Patterson offered him $1000 to wear an ape suit for a Bigfoot film.

In an interview, Mr. Wolfson said raising questions about the treatment of farm animals could be part of a continuum leading toward a great ape suit.