KING KONG (2005) (PG) Presented in 35mm Film

King Kong (2005) at The Revival House Perth

In 1933, at the height of the Great Depression, ambitious filmmaker Carl Denham (Jack Black) charts a desperate course to a mysterious uncharted island, dragging his cast and crew—including struggling actress Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts) and playwright Jack Driscoll (Adrien Brody)—into the unknown. What they discover on Skull Island defies imagination: a primordial lost world where dinosaurs still roam and natives worship a colossal ape as a god. When Ann is offered as a sacrifice to the mighty Kong, an unexpected bond forms between beauty and beast. Their connection becomes the heart of this epic as Kong is captured and brought to Depression-era New York, where he'll make his legendary last stand atop the Empire State Building.

Peter Jackson's passionate 2005 reimagining of the 1933 classic is filmmaking on the grandest scale, a three-hour spectacular that honors the original while expanding it into a fully realized world. The director brings the same meticulous craft that defined his Lord of the Rings trilogy to create a Skull Island teeming with terrifying creatures and breathtaking danger—from a harrowing battle with multiple V-Rex dinosaurs to nightmarish giant insects. Andy Serkis delivers groundbreaking motion-capture performance as Kong, creating a character of surprising emotional depth and humanity. Watts makes Ann more than a screaming damsel, while Howard Shore's sweeping romantic score captures both the adventure's scale and the tragedy at its core.

Original format and audio experience of this film faithfully reproduced by The Revival House. Presented in 35mm film unless noted otherwise.

When: Saturday, January 17th at 3:10PM
Where: The Revival House at the Como Theatre
Rating: M (Moderate fantasy violence and scary scenes)

It was beauty killed the beast—experience Jackson's monumental tribute to cinema's greatest monster on 35mm, exactly as this epic adventure deserves to be seen.