As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.
The Book:
- The building suspense as the group, having entered Zinj, are watched each night by the grey gorillas, and eventually attacked, never fails to induce shivers.
- The expedition to Zinj must brave a trek through a part of Africa that is undergoing a civil war (and apparently a genocide). The worst part is that the tribe that is performing said action has a well-recorded history of cannibalism.
- Once the expedition arrives to Zinj, it's out of the frying pan into the fire: finding what little remains of the previous expedition, then being within a Closed Circle surrounded by a Killer Gorilla tribe, then running away through the jungle in the middle of a volcanic eruption, and then being attacked by a Wacky Wayside Tribe of cannibals...
The Film
- The opening, where two scientists are attacked by an unseen force, later revealed to be the grey gorillas, especially the part where one scientist has the other scientist's eye thrown at him.
- Anytime the grey gorillas kill a group member, particularly the deaths of Richard and Homolka.
- Kahega's death was arguably even worse. It's one thing to have your skull crushed. It's certainly another to be Eaten Alive by a pack of vicious gorillas.
- Amy's nightmare.
- The moment where the crew are attacked by a group of hippos in the night.
- Homolka remarks how a lot of the hieroglyphics in Zinj seem to be saying the same thing over and over. How does he translate them? “We are… watching you.”
- One of the posters used to promote the film
◊ features a close-up of a gorilla’s face note along with text in the style of computer messages. If you look closely, it seems to be showing a series of messages that start off rather mundane but around the gorilla’s eye the words “NON-HUMAN ATTACK” and “UNKNOWN SPECIES” are highlighted. As if that weren’t creepy enough, the following text, while hard to read, says “PERIMETER UNDER ATTACK” and “SEND HELP” over and over... until all it says is “TRANSMISSION TERMINATED” as the text fades to black as it reaches the bottom of the poster.
