The first film at Fantastic Fest I saw this year was Primate, a horror movie about a beloved pet chimp getting rabies and, well, you know how that ends up going. Johannes Roberts, who is no stranger to terrifying animal movies, shows us just how badly a chimp can beat us up.
When you think about the argument of how many men can take on one gorilla, it kind of makes sense that a movie about one single chimp is terrifying. Lucy (Johnny Sequoyah) heads home to Hawai’i with her friends after being away for college. Her little sister and father (Troy Kotsur) have missed her and Lucy has kept her distance since the death of her mother. But being back home means reconnecting with family, friends, and the family chimp, Ben. Yes, they have a chimp.
