Monkey Shines
“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.”
George A. RomeroCast
Jason Beghe 
John Pankow Kate McNeil Joyce Van Patten
Credits
Written by: Michael Stewart
Plot
A trained monkey turns on a quadriplegic man.
Sinekatalog’s take
George A. Romero's thriller about a helper monkey turning on its quadriplegic owner is tense and unsettling. Uneven but creepy, with real fear and dark ideas, it is a minor but memorable entry.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 6.2 / 10 (14,944 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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