
Carrie(1976)
Withdrawn and sensitive teenager Carrie White faces bullying from classmates and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers, things take a dark and violent turn.


“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.”
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.

Jason Beghe
Allan Mann

John Pankow
Geoffrey Fisher

Kate McNeil
Melanie Parker

Joyce Van Patten
Dorothy Mann

Christine Forrest
Maryanne Hodges

Stephen Root
Dean Burbage

Stanley Tucci
Dr. John Wiseman
Tom Quinn
Charlie Cunningham

Janine Turner
Linda Aikman

William Newman
Doc Williams
Monkey Shines is a horror, science fiction, drama, thriller film released in 1988 exploring themes of experiment, based on novel or book, paralysis, revenge, rage, monkey. Directed by George A. Romero, it stars Jason Beghe, John Pankow, Kate McNeil. 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.
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