
Monkey Shines(1988)
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.


“There's a new party animal on campus. She'll bring out the beast in you!”
A scientist at a Florida university inadvertently creates a "rage virus" while performing experiments intended to restore dead brain tissue in baboons. When a journalist for the college paper breaks into the campus lab, he's bitten by one of the infected baboons; the virus soon spreads to a trio of rapists and a valley girl, all of whom go on killing sprees.
Patrick Lowe
Sam Nash

Cheryl Arutt
Lauren Daly

Sarah Buxton
Debbie
Mitch Watson
Frank Duffy

Bo Svenson
Ethridge
Doug Sloan
Lovejoy
Luis Valderrama
Chas
John Baldwin
Bryan
Turk Harley
Prof. Jenkins

Jennifer Hingel
Kimberley
Primal Rage is a horror, science fiction, thriller film released in 1988 exploring themes of florida, experiment, biology, mouse, revenge, laboratory. Directed by Vittorio Rambaldi, it stars Patrick Lowe, Cheryl Arutt, Sarah Buxton. A scientist at a Florida university inadvertently creates a "rage virus" while performing experiments intended to restore dead brain tissue in baboons. When a journalist for the college paper breaks into the campus lab, he's bitten by one of the infected baboons; the virus soon spreads to a trio of rapists and a valley girl, all of whom go on killing sprees.
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