Monkey Shines

Monkey Shines

Once there was a man whose prison was a chair. The man had a monkey, they made the strangest pair. The monkey ruled the man, it climbed inside his head. And now as fate would have it, one of them is dead.

1988 · 113 min · ★ 6.3 · Horror, Science Fiction, Drama, Thriller

A quadriplegic man is given a trained monkey help him with every day activities, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master and those who get too close to him.

Directed by George A. Romero · Written by George A. Romero

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