Captive Wild Woman

Captive Wild Woman

STRANGEST OF SIGHTS... The brain of an animal... the form of a woman!

Directed by Edward Dmytryk

Produced by Universal Pictures

194361 min5.3 / 10

A lurid 1940s creature-feature built on mad-scientist transgression and body-horror transformation, where scientific obsession leads to murder and monstrosity.

An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human...even though it costs human life.

Questions people ask

  • Is Captive Wild Woman easy watching? No. Less comforting than 92% of films.

  • Does Captive Wild Woman end with hope? No. Less hopeful than 91% of films.

  • Is Captive Wild Woman violent? Yes. More violent than 80% of films.

  • Is Captive Wild Woman scary? Somewhat. More frightening than 67% of films.

  • Is Captive Wild Woman sad? Not especially. Less sad than 59% of films.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

31/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

You have seen this shape before.

Rarity57

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise46

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love5

How much audiences actually like it

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Like Captive Wild Woman

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Similar, pushed toward heavier and more intense.

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Similar, pushed toward warmer and easier.

Like Captive Wild Woman, But Less Popular

Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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