Monkey Shines: An Experiment In Fear Reviews
CinePassion
A brilliant realization of a mind awakening to its animal instincts, expressed in satirical Hitchcockisms
Combustible Celluloid
This intelligent, effective thriller is one of [Romero's] best films.
Top CriticA befuddled story about a man constrained from the neck down told by a director confused from the neck up.
TV Guide's Movie Guide
Terrifying psychological horror.
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| Original Score: 3/4
One of George Romero's most effective and interesting horror thrillers.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
A frightening and very effective psychological thriller.
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| Original Score: B
Romero's is a formidable talent which others can only hope to ape.
Lessons of Darkness
It's not illogicality that dooms Romero's thriller but rather torpid pacing and a distinct lack of scares.
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| Original Score: C-
StaciWilson.com
Lurid but entertaining -- go bananas and splurge on a rental, at least.
A film that begins in sentimentality and ends in ludicrous melodrama.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
Kalamazoo Gazette
Nothing to go ape over, that's for sure.
| Original Score: 2/5
eFilmCritic.com
Cheap but effective. Plus, evil monkeys are hilarious.
| Original Score: 3/5
ToxicUniverse.com
[Lacks] the flash and style, or even bona fide scares, of [Romero's] earlier work.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Filmcritic.com
This is pretty hideous, standard horror fare, with a genetically-enhanced monkey caring for a quadrapelegic. This is about as bad as horror gets.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
George Romero should stick to zombies.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Somewhere within this movie's two hours or so is hidden an absolutely spellbinding 90-minute thriller.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
rec.arts.movies.reviews
As a pint-sized flipside to King Kong, Ella has her place among movie monsters
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.
