Monkey Shines: An Experiment In Fear (1988)
Average Rating: 5.4/10
Reviews Counted: 26
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 13
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Average Rating: 5.7/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 3
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A quadriplegic former athlete finds his darkest urges being acted out by an animal familiar in this psychological horror film. When Allan Mann (Jason Beghe) loses the use of his legs and arms in an accident, he becomes bitter -- no surprise given that his girlfriend dumps him for his surgeon, his new nurse (Christine Forrest) is a shrew, and his smothering mother (Joyce Van Patten) keeps threatening to move in and take care of him. Enter Kate McNeil (Melanie Parker), a scientist who is working
Jan 1, 1988 Wide
Aug 14, 2001
MGM
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Cast
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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 -
Janine Turner
Linda Aikman -
William Newman
Doc Williams -
Chuck Baker
Ambulance Driver -
Mitchell Baseman
Child Playing -
David Earle
Anesthetist -
Michael Naft
Young Allan -
Tina Romero
Child Playing -
Patricia Tallman
Party Guest -
Melanie Verlin
Vandal -
Tudi Wiggins
Esther Fry -
Boo the Monkey
Ella -
Tim Dileo
Vandal -
Dan Fallon
Allan's Friend -
Christina Galesi
Nurse -
Lia Savini
Child Playing -
Leslie Dane Shapiro
Nurse -
Alice Shure
Nurse -
Tom Quinn
Charlie Cunningham
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All Critics (26) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (13) | Rotten (13) | DVD (4)
A befuddled story about a man constrained from the neck down told by a director confused from the neck up.
One of George Romero's most effective and interesting horror thrillers.
Romero's is a formidable talent which others can only hope to ape.
A film that begins in sentimentality and ends in ludicrous melodrama.
Somewhere within this movie's two hours or so is hidden an absolutely spellbinding 90-minute thriller.
There was a time when Romero would have used these elements for pure shock effect, but the horrors in Monkey Shines are more internalized, which make them all the more scary.
A brilliant realization of a mind awakening to its animal instincts, expressed in satirical Hitchcockisms
This intelligent, effective thriller is one of [Romero's] best films.
Terrifying psychological horror.
A frightening and very effective psychological thriller.
It's not illogicality that dooms Romero's thriller but rather torpid pacing and a distinct lack of scares.
Lurid but entertaining -- go bananas and splurge on a rental, at least.
Romero without zombies = boring.
Nothing special.
Nothing to go ape over, that's for sure.
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Foreign Titles
- Monkey Shines (DE)
- Monkey Shines (UK)


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