Still terrifying, many years later.
- The implication that the natives have been giving their own women to Kong for many years... and Kong either killed them or just ignored them to wander around and die alone on Kong's side of the island. Or maybe he ignored them altogether, without even bothering to untie them from the altar...
- If any of those women escaped Kong in the jungle they might have been able to make their way back to the village; and anyone left unclaimed on the altar could also probably be brought back inside. Of course, being rejected by your god would likely have its own ramifications...
- A scene of crewmen being eaten by giant spiders (also lizards, crabs and something that looked like an octopus) was considered too scary (the producers insisted the scene was cut for pacing and production concerns); the 2005 version reinstated the idea, and director Peter Jackson also produced a Retraux re-creation of the scene for the 1933 film's DVD release, depicting how it might have looked had it been made as written. Andy Serkis himself described the monsters in the 2005 version as "Freudian penis monsters."
- The dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures themselves aren't necessarily any less scary. Admittedly, the Stegosaurus may not be quite so bad since Carl and the sailors were able to take it out relatively quickly with their guns and gas bombs. The other prehistoric animals, on the other hand...:
- The Apatosaurus featured thoroughly averts the Gentle Giant Sauropod trope by proving shockingly aggressive against Carl, Jack, and the other sailors present when it catches them in the swamp that is presumably its territory. Acting not entirely too different from an elephant or hippo, it goes so far as to brutally attack the sailors in the water after capsizing their raft and leaving them forced to swim away without any chance of reclaiming their weapons, grabbing them by the shirts with its mouth and tossing them around like ragdolls (and in one notable instance, even lifting one of them up and down into and out of the water repeatedly as if trying to drown him) before then following the ones that escape to land and chasing them from there just to ensure they actually leave. And despite supplementary sources and eagle eyed viewers later making it clear that all it did was kill them and leave the bodies, the images on screen make it easy for the common misconception that it ATE the sailors it killed!
- Ann herself doesn't have it any better. She ends up at risk of getting killed and eaten by a Tyrannosaurus rex, an Elasmosaurus, and a Pteranodon in relatively short order, and is completely helpless to defend herself against them. And if Kong had either not been present, or had lost his fights against them, either one of them could (and very likely would) have eaten her!
- While it's obvious Kong has to win when he fights the T. Rex, the scene is staged in such a way that it's perfectly believable at any moment that Kong could die. The fight goes on far longer than you'd expect given the difficulty of shooting such a scene in 1933, and when it finally ends with Kong tearing open the dinosaur's jaw, there is very obviously a lot of blood coming out of its mouth.
- Many of the screams of the sailors killed in the rescue attempt are genuinely chilling. The log scene in particular is horrifying; unlike most versions they actually show the poor men smacking the ground like gruesome ragdolls.
