Mahon also pads his pic with several scenes featuring leading man Mabe in the hospital. He and his wife get attacked by the gorilla midway into the movie, so while the lady remains at the camp, we get to watch the guy banter with cops and a sassy nurse, then spend time watching the Jello on his tray jiggle. (I'm guessing Mabe took a lotta notes on Mahon's directorial techniques.) We also see the local cops set their trap for the creature - using an unfortunately clothed policewoman as bait, then barely responding in time to her screams when the big monkey goes after her.

The movie ends happily with a scene of camp regulars returning to the scene of the crime once the monster has been shot and destroyed. Where slasher flicks of the 70's and 80's regularly inferred that the violent deaths of their horny teen victims were the consequence of their "immoral behavior," in Beast the presence of a rampaging gorilla is just, at most, a temporary inconvenience. A testimony to the endurance of the human spirit. . .