Jessie and Leonard Maltin love movies so much, they’re dedicating a whole weekend to sharing them with friends, family, and fans. The first ever MaltinFest, a film festival dedicated to movie lovers at Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles, runs May 10-12th. Not to leave out genre films, MaltinFest is screening an ultra-rare 35mm print of Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla that was donated to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences by Bela Lugosi Jr.! More about this genre hidden gem below:

Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla is one-of-a-kind… a patently terrible movie that I find utterly fascinating. It features the great Lugosi playing a mad scientist opposite a nightclub duo named Duke Mitchell and Sammy Petrillo, who were the poor man’s Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis—at a time when Martin and Lewis were the hottest act in show business! It was directed by B-movie specialist William Beaudine and features Charles Gemora in his world-famous gorilla suit. It will only cost viewers an hour and a quarter of their lives, but once seen, it will never be forgotten. – Leonard Maltin