College student Lucy and her friends spend their vacation at her family's home in Hawaii, which includes her pet chimpanzee, Ben. However, when Ben contracts rabies after being bitten by a rabid animal, the group must fight for their lives in order to avoid the now-violent chimp.
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- CineMonoSeptember 14, 2026Surpassed my expectations. A fairly straightforward bottle premise. I appreciated the practical effects and found them very affective. Had they gone fully digital I personally would not have been able to suspend disbelief as easily. What could have been a goofy schlock fest was an engaging and suspenseful ride. While I'm not sure it garners multiple viewings, I recommend a watch.
- cursedbagsJanuary 12, 2026Crazy Ass Monkey.
- Hipster ZOMBIEJanuary 15, 2026Primate (2025) is pretty dumb, gloriously gory, and exactly the kind of midnight-movie creature feature that knows it’s throwing bananas and leans into the splatter. The setup is pure B-movie goodness: a crazed pet chimpanzee with rabies by way of a mongoose, and escalateing choas with some very stupid young adults caught in the middle. The gore lands hard and often, with wince-worthy kills that feel handcrafted for genre sickos who like their horror messy and mean. Like me. The human element is a circus of bad decisions. The kids are walking cautionary tales, and the parent (a deaf author who is about to go on a book tour) are so aggressively brain-dead you’ll forget they’re supposedly ape experts. It’s frustrating, hilarious, and oddly charming in how committed it is to stupidity. What really sells it is the score, a creepy, synth-soaked pulse that feels like a lost Goblin tape unearthed from a Dario Argento vault. Primate won’t be the best horror film of 2026, but it definitely won’t be the worst, and against all odds, you’ll probably have a damn good time watching it, I know I did.
- Timeless CinemaJanuary 16, 2026As a tense horror film, there are moments that shine. Across the sum of its parts, it's a decent single watch for horror fans.
- Luiz MirandaAugust 25, 2026The monkey gets smarter to kill in a cliche package.
- emiliovsAugust 15, 2026That monkey bit People man
- Casper HørningMarch 21, 2026Stupid people, impossible to be this helpless.
- stuhannafordAugust 6, 2026Having read the reviews, and being a huge horror fan, I was excited to see what all of the fuss was about... very little it turns out. Extraordinarily light on story, and I found myself close to nodding off once things take a turn. Lots of gore, lots of violence, but it all just felt like it was for the sheer sake of it. Very much a movie by numbers, and predictable. All the usual cliches are there, you know who's surviving, so you're never on the edge of your seat. And AGAIN, for a modern horror movie, a real waste of a fairly clever, reasonably original story. And so much more could have been made of the deaf characters' interesting POV. Build up, build up and... just let the effects team finish it off. Dull and boring, with utterly disinteresting characters.
- Bobby PolzerAugust 1, 2026Great movie. Brutal as hell and at times even a bit creepy. Enjoyed it a lot.
- shirazesatFebruary 12, 2026A lesson in pet ownership and too much glass. Edge of seat horror that's really riveting. I tagged this high due to the quality of the story and excellent pace. Plus no-one does anything daft, like you usually see in horrors - everything is believable. I would say, though, that there's too much gore in some scenes, and I really hope high ratings for this isn't misinterpreted as a sign that gore is good. "Saw", for example, was excellent because of its concept but producers focused on gore rather than concept
- brian6583April 2, 2026A family of idiots is terrorised by a small man dressed as a monkey and, despite having rabies, which causes hydrophobia, spends most of the film standing next to a swimming pool. A sequence of increasingly stupid decisions leads to some hilarious moments. Tragically, this is not a comedy.
- A. ConstantinJuly 29, 2026Kinda of a snoozefest and very predictable.
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Primate was released on January 8, 2026.
Primate was directed by Johannes Roberts.
Primate has a runtime of 88m.
Primate was produced by Walter Hamada, Bradley Pilz, John Hodges.
College student Lucy and her friends spend their vacation at her family's home in Hawaii, which includes her pet chimpanzee, Ben. However, when Ben contracts rabies after being bitten by a rabid animal, the group must fight for their lives in order to avoid the now-violent chimp.
The key characters in Primate are Lucy (Johnny Sequoyah), Hannah (Jessica Alexander), Adam (Troy Kotsur).
Primate is rated R.
Primate is a Horror, Thriller film.
Primate has an audience rating of 6.9 out of 10.
Primate had a budget of $21M.
Primate has made $41.2M at the box office.