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

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