Monkey Shines
USA, 1988, 113min
Director: George A. Romero
Jason Beghe, John Pankow, Kate McNeil, Joyce Van Patten, Christine Forrest, Stephen Root, Stanley Tucci, Boo, Janine Turner, William
American director George a. Romero became after the success of their first work Night of the living dead a specialist in horror movies. Artistically, however, his debut didn't beat and remains in position on the official Hollywood independent, but downright commercially tuned in to the author of the images of the category B. The theme of the film the Killing of a monkey passing on the border between fiction and horror story of a student of Alan (Jason Beghe - Missed call [2008]), the convicted person after a severe accident to immobility in a wheelchair. As a companion he is offered a smart monkey Ella. However, no one has any idea that she was in the lab, subjected to the experiment, increasing intelligence. Alan becomes the pet, whose presence gets him off more than the care of the nurses, addicted. To his horror, however, she realizes that between them leads to a special telepathic connection, awakening in him the repressed aggressive feelings. Ella, controlled his thoughts begins to kill...

Budget: $7,000,000
Genre: Horror Sci-Fi Drama