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Primal Rage

Primal Rage

There's a new party animal on campus. She'll bring out the beast in you!

19885.21h 32m

Overview

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.

Directed by Vittorio Rambaldi
Written by Umberto Lenzi, James Justice
Produced by William J. Immerman, Josi W. Konski
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Top Cast

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Patrick Lowe

Sam Nash

Cheryl Arutt

Cheryl Arutt

Lauren Daly

Sarah Buxton

Sarah Buxton

Debbie

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Mitch Watson

Frank Duffy

Bo Svenson

Bo Svenson

Ethridge

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Doug Sloan

Lovejoy

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Luis Valderrama

Chas

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John Baldwin

Bryan

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Turk Harley

Prof. Jenkins

Jennifer Hingel

Jennifer Hingel

Kimberley

Themes & Keywords

floridaexperimentbiologymouserevengelaboratoryuniversitylethal viruskilling spreebaboonrapistvirusinfectedcollege student

About Primal Rage

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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