Monkey Boy

Monkey Boy

They made him, they raised him, now he's coming out to play.

1992 · 104 min · Horror, TV Movie

Half man, half monkey, Chad was born in a lab and kept hidden from the world. A journalist, investigating a macabre mass-murder, discovers the mutant boy — a creature with the mind of a child and superhuman strength. But the reporter finds out the hard way that nothing, and nobody, can stand in the way of progress. (Re-titled for its American VHS release, "Monkey Boy" is an abbreviated film version of Lawrence Gordon Clark's 1991 mini-series "Chimera".)

Directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark · Written by Stephen Gallagher

Your Rating

Cast

Make it a double feature

2h 33m together

Monkey Boy

Casting the Runes

Both from Lawrence Gordon Clark.

More from Lawrence Gordon ClarkSee all →

Just Another Secret

Just Another Secret · 1989

Just Another Secret

MovieActionThriller

An American intelligence agent uncovers a plot to assassinate Soviet Premier Gorbachev just at the time when glasnost is coming into place.

Captain James Cook

Captain James Cook · 1988

Captain James Cook

SeriesAction & Adventure

Based on Captain James Cook's three voyages. It was on his first voyage, in 1770 (while in the South Pacific region to observe the transit of Venus), that Captain Cook discovered the east coast of Australia. He later recommended Australia as a future British colony. The series was financed by $5 million from Revcom France, $2.25 million from the ABC and the rest from 10BA tax money.

Pie in the Sky

Pie in the Sky · 1994

SeriesComedyDrama

Pie in the Sky is a British offbeat police comedy drama programme starring Richard Griffiths and Maggie Steed, created by Andrew Payne and first broadcast in five series on BBC1 between 13 March 1994 and 17 August 1997 as well as being syndicated on other channels in other countries, including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The series departs slightly from other police dramas in that the protagonist, Henry Crabbe, while still being an on-duty policeman, is also the head chef of the title restaurant set in the fictional town of Middleton and county of Westershire.

Act of Betrayal

Act of Betrayal · 1988

Act of Betrayal

An IRA informer and his family are given new identities and new lives in Australia but the IRA are still determined to track them down.

A Ghost Story for Christmas

A Ghost Story for Christmas · 1971

A Ghost Story for Christmas

A strand of annual British short television adaptations of classic ghost stories, referencing the oral tradition of telling supernatural tales at Christmas. First broadcast on BBC One from 1971 to 1978, and revived in 2005 on BBC Four.

Flambards

Flambards · 1979

In early 20th-century England, young orphan Christina Parsons is sent to live with her Uncle Russell, who owns the country estate of Flambards, and has two sons. Mark, the elder, is a wastrel, a roue and, like his father, loves to hunt. The younger, William, lives to fly aeroplanes. Christina finds herself struggling with the ideas of classism as she falls in love with country life, the hunt, and one of her cousins. But after an impulsive marriage, when her husband is called away by the First World War, Christina must keep Flambards afloat by herself.

Minder

SeriesComedyDrama

Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.

A Warning to the Curious

A Warning to the Curious · 1972

A Warning to the Curious

MovieTV MovieHorror

Paxton, an amateur archeologist, travels to the town of Seaburgh and inadvertently stumbles across one of the lost crowns of Anglia, which, according to legend, protect the county from invasion. On digging the crown up, Paxton is stalked by its supernatural guardian.

Casting the Runes

Casting the Runes · 1979

Casting the Runes

MovieMysteryTV Movie

The producer of an investigative television programme which is critical of an occultist finds out that he has a curse put on her.

ITV Playhouse

ITV Playhouse · 1967

ITV Playhouse is a British comedy-drama TV series that ran from 1967 to 1983, which featured contributions from playwrights such as Dennis Potter, Rhys Adrian and Alan Sharp. The series began in black and white, but was later shot in colour and was produced by various companies for the ITV network, a format that would inspire Dramarama. Actors appearing in the series included Leslie Anderson, Gwen Nelson, Ricky Alleyne, Pat Heywood, Michael Elphick, Ian Hendry, Edward Woodward, Margaret Lockwood, Jessie Matthews and Lloyd Peters.

Get Lost!

Get Lost! · 1981

SeriesMysteryDrama

Get Lost! is a 1981 British television drama serial produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV. Written by Alan Plater, the plot concerns the disappearance of the husband of Leeds schoolteacher Judy Threadgold. Investigating the disappearance, with the aid of her colleague, woodwork teacher Neville Keaton, Judy learns of a secret organisation that helps disaffected people leave their unhappy lives behind.

The Locksmith

The Locksmith · 1997

SeriesDramaCrime

When his estranged wife is brutally attacked by a burglar, a law-abiding locksmith unconvinced that the junkie charged for the crime is the real attacker starts his own investigation.

The Signalman

The Signalman · 1976

MovieTV MovieHorror

A traveller comes across a signalman stationed by the exit of a railway tunnel in a deep cutting. The traveller becomes familiar with the signalman, and finds that he is troubled by an apparition which appears by the tunnel.

Magic Moments

Magic Moments · 1989

MovieFantasyDrama

A successful magician is approached to do a TV special, which he has not done before. He and the beautiful producer of the show fall in love with each other, much to the disappointment of her possessive guardian (who is the person she works for). He sets out to wreck their happiness.

Harry's Game

Harry's Game · 1982

SeriesCrimeDrama

British undercover agent Harry Brown is sent to Northern Ireland to infiltrate the IRA to find (and terminate) the assassin of a British Cabinet Minister. Harry is alone, the army hasn't been told he is being put in place, his wife is fed up with him and his job, and his sole new friend, an Irish woman who falls for him, will be consumed by his relentless search for the assassin.

The Treasure of Abbot Thomas

The Treasure of Abbot Thomas · 1974

The Treasure of Abbot Thomas

MovieMysteryTV Movie

The Reverend Justin Somerton, a scholar of medieval history, and his protégé Lord Peter Dattering are visiting an abbey library. While studying a stained glass window, they uncover clues leading to a treasure hidden by a disgraced abbot.

More Like This

Body Melt

Body Melt · 1994

MovieComedyHorror

Residents of peaceful Pebbles Court, Homesville, are being used unknowingly as test experiments for a new 'Body Drug' that causes rapid body decomposition (melting skin etc.) and painful death.

The Nude Vampire

The Nude Vampire · 1970

The Nude Vampire

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

A young man falls in love with a beautiful woman being chased by sinister masked figures at night. He tries to track her down, and learns she's being held captive by his father and colleagues who believe she's a vampire.

Hell Comes to Frogtown

Hell Comes to Frogtown · 1988

Hell Comes to Frogtown

MovieActionComedy

'Hell' is the name of the hero of the story. He's a prisoner of the women who now run the USA after a nuclear/biological war. Results of the war are that mutants have evolved, and the human race is in danger of extinction due to infertility. Hell is given the task of helping in the rescue of a group of fertile women from the harem of the mutant leader (resembling a frog). Hell cannot escape since he has a bomb attached to his private parts which will detonate if he strays more than a few hundred yards from his guard.

Slither

Slither · 2006

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

A small town is taken over by an alien plague, turning residents into zombies and all forms of mutant monsters.

Generation X

Generation X · 1996

MovieTV MovieAction

A group of young mutants--humans with a genetic variation that gives them superpowers and makes them feared by the population at large--begin training at a school for heroes. Their studies are interrupted when they must rescue one of their number from a mad scientist who can enter others' dreams.

The Island of Dr. Moreau

The Island of Dr. Moreau · 1977

The Island of Dr. Moreau

MovieScience FictionHorror

A ship-wrecked man floats ashore on an island in the Pacific Ocean. The island is inhabited by a scientist, Dr. Moreau, who in an experiment has turned beasts into human beings.

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

Gremlins 2: The New Batch · 1990

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

MovieComedyHorror

Young sweethearts Billy and Kate move to the Big Apple, land jobs in a high-tech office park and soon reunite with the friendly and lovable Gizmo. But a series of accidents creates a whole new generation of Gremlins. The situation worsens when the devilish green creatures invade a top-secret laboratory and develop genetically altered powers, making them even harder to destroy!

Eraserhead

Eraserhead · 1977

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

First-time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.

This Island Earth

This Island Earth · 1955

This Island Earth

MovieScience FictionAdventure

Aliens have landed and are hiding on Earth, but need Earth’s scientists to help them fight an inter-planetary war.

Resident Evil: Extinction

Resident Evil: Extinction · 2007

Resident Evil: Extinction

MovieHorrorAction

Years after the Racoon City catastrophe, survivors travel across the Nevada desert, hoping to make it to Alaska. Alice joins the caravan and their fight against hordes of zombies and the evil Umbrella Corp.

28 Weeks Later

28 Weeks Later · 2007

MovieHorrorThriller

Twenty-eight weeks after the spread of a deadly rage virus, the inhabitants of the British Isles have lost their battle against the onslaught, as the virus has killed everyone there. Six months later, a group of Americans dare to set foot on the Isles, convinced the danger has passed. But it soon becomes all too clear that the scourge continues to live, waiting to pounce on its next victims.

Resident Evil

Resident Evil · 2002

MovieHorrorAction

When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from hell, the government sends in an elite military task force to contain the outbreak.

Resident Evil: Apocalypse

Resident Evil: Apocalypse · 2004

Resident Evil: Apocalypse

MovieHorrorAction

As the city is locked down under quarantine, Alice finds out that the people that died from the previous incident at the Umbrella Corporation have turned into zombies. She then joins a small band of elite soldiers, who are enlisted to rescue the missing daughter of the creator of the mutating T-virus. Once lack of luck and resources happen, they begin to wage an exhilarating battle to survive and escape before the Umbrella Corporation erases its experiment from the face of the earth.

The Fly

The Fly · 1986

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

When brilliant, eccentric scientist Seth Brundle makes a huge technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.

The Descent

The Descent · 2005

MovieAdventureHorror

After a personal tragedy, Sarah joins her friends on a caving expedition in the Appalachian Mountains. But when a rockfall traps them deep underground, their adventure turns into a nightmare. As they search for a way out, the group discovers they are not alone—lurking in the darkness are savage, cave-dwelling creatures. With rising tension and dwindling trust, the women must fight to survive against both the predators and each other.

The Hills Have Eyes 2

The Hills Have Eyes 2 · 2007

The Hills Have Eyes 2

A group of National Guard trainees on a routine mission find themselves up against cannibalistic mutants in the New Mexico desert.

The Brain That Wouldn't Die

The Brain That Wouldn't Die · 1962

The Brain That Wouldn't Die

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

Dr. Bill Cortner and his fiancée, Jan Compton, are driving to his lab when they get into a horrible car accident. Compton is decapitated. But Cortner is not fazed by this seemingly insurmountable hurdle. His expertise is in transplants, and he is excited to perform the first head transplant. Keeping Compton's head alive in his lab, Cortner plans the groundbreaking yet unorthodox surgery. First, however, he needs a body.

Ticks

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

Teens camping in a northern California retreat are terrorized by mutant insects created by evil, polluting pot farmers.

Rate this film

Your ratings make Midnight smarter