Kong's going apeshit.
- In general, this is easily one of the darkest movies to be made about the giant ape, with a level of gorn on par with Kong: Skull Island, but without any of the fun that movie had.
- Kong's death. While it plays out more or less the same way it usually does, the filmmakers might have gone a bit overboard with the blood and gore.
- The giant snake, especially since it's the only other giant monster we see in this version, making its appearance somewhat jarring.
- Even worse is its death scene. Kong grabs it by the jaws, and rips them apart.
- Kong crushing Fred Wilson to death when he escapes his restraints. As much as he might have deserved it, it's still no less horrifying.
- Kong's attack on the train while pursuing Dwan, where we see the terrified passengers fighting to stay alive as he rips the top of the car apart. He tosses away one unlucky woman to her death when he sees she isn't Dwan, and then proceeds to throw the train and its victims within off the elevated track structure and onto the street below, causing it to burst into flames.
- Kong killing the American soldiers with a fuel tank atop the World Trade Center as they attempted to kill him with their flamethrowers.
- Hell, the entire climax atop the Twin Towers becomes that much more unsettling in the post-9/11/01 era.
- Theres something unsettling about Kong's face on the movie poster (see the pic on the main page), which its oddly elongated lower jaw and tiny little eyes, looking nothing like Kong does in the film proper.
