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Old 11th January 2019, 02:26 PM
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Monkey Shines (1988)

During George a Romero's twenty year gap from his Dead series of films he made one or two interesting standalone features. Bruiser (2000) was one and Monkey Shines is another.

It's depiction of a Capuchin monkey as a daily help to a paraplegic trying to adjust to his situation is both fascinating and fun, the monkey is absolutely adorable, but it takes a disturbing turn for the worse as the monkey is infected on purpose by a serum that turns it rabid.

Well paced and reasonably gripping, Monkey Shines is a film that's not for the psychologically squeamish.

The film's offbeat use of monkeys as killers certainly reminded me of the superior 1986 British horror thriller Link.
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