Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s a trash premise, but the film’s director, Johannes Roberts (“47 Meters Down”), does something shrewd. He makes the chimp ...
Some movies are here to kill off characters, and they don’t pretend to be anything else. That’s the case with “Primate,” where a family’s pet chimpanzee has that special kind of ...
The first movie out of the gate for 2026, Primate, is not a very encouraging start for the year, nor is it a good start for the first full year Skydance has been in charge of one of Hollywood’s great ...
We’ve seen into the future. Each January, Hollywood provides a few horror movies to kick off the new year and, in 2026, one of those movies is Primate. It’s a down-and-dirty, sub-90-minute horror ...
Johnny Sequoyah, Troy Kotsur and a dude in a monkey suit star in Johannes Roberts’ creature feature about a secluded tropical vacation that goes bananas. By David Rooney Chief Film Critic If you spent ...
“Primate” is indeed bad enough to belong in January, though I’ll at least allow it the faint compliment that it’s pretty ...
Once only pets for the wealthy, chimps achieved an exalted place in American popular culture 80 years ago, and the latest chapter of that love affair comes with the release of “Chimpanzee." A Disney ...
Directed by Johannes Roberts, this creature feature really didn't overthink it. “Primate” casts “Coda” Oscar-winner Troy Kotsur as the recent widow of a linguistics professor. An author, he’s still ...
The family chimp turns rabid, but always seems like a real animal, in Johannes Roberts' slickly executed piece of slaughterhouse schlock. For a while, Ben wanders around in a red shirt, clutching a ...