Shakma (1990)
I love a good killer animal movie. The best ones are about killer fish, but killer monkeys are pretty good too.
A bunch of medical students who are also role playing game nerds, are getting ready for LARP session. The students include Christopher Atkins (from The Blue Lagoon), Ari Meyers (from Kate And Allie), and their dungeon master/teacher is Roddy McDowall (From The Planet Of The Apes). Besides being med students, the group is involved in animal research, including testing a drug that is supposed to inhibit aggressive behaviour, "but sometimes has the opposite effect". They give the drug to Shakma, a baboon at the lab, and when the monkey attacks one of the students, they decide to put him down. The movie would end right there except they mistakenly give Shakma more of the rage inducing drug by mistake, and then leave him on an examining table. Once the LARPing has started, Shakma wakes up and goes on a murderous rampage.
This is not the kind of movie to watch when you're in the mood for a masterpiece. It's just an old fashioned shitty horror movie, with slumming character actors, and TV personalities trying to break onto the big screen. The characters do stupid things to put themselves in peril, and Shakma flips the fuck out. There's not a lot of real tension, but there's plenty of monkey mayhem, and baboons are really scary. What more could you want.
A bunch of medical students who are also role playing game nerds, are getting ready for LARP session. The students include Christopher Atkins (from The Blue Lagoon), Ari Meyers (from Kate And Allie), and their dungeon master/teacher is Roddy McDowall (From The Planet Of The Apes). Besides being med students, the group is involved in animal research, including testing a drug that is supposed to inhibit aggressive behaviour, "but sometimes has the opposite effect". They give the drug to Shakma, a baboon at the lab, and when the monkey attacks one of the students, they decide to put him down. The movie would end right there except they mistakenly give Shakma more of the rage inducing drug by mistake, and then leave him on an examining table. Once the LARPing has started, Shakma wakes up and goes on a murderous rampage.
This is not the kind of movie to watch when you're in the mood for a masterpiece. It's just an old fashioned shitty horror movie, with slumming character actors, and TV personalities trying to break onto the big screen. The characters do stupid things to put themselves in peril, and Shakma flips the fuck out. There's not a lot of real tension, but there's plenty of monkey mayhem, and baboons are really scary. What more could you want.
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