
“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.”
Monkey Shines
6.3
365 votes·1988
·1h 53m
·MovieHorrorScience FictionDramaThriller
Overview
A quadriplegic man is given a trained monkey help him with every day activities, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master and those who get too close to him.
Commercial Verdict
Flop
Revenue vs Budget0.8x
0x1x2x3x4x5x
Lost money at the box office
Keywords
experimentbased on novel or bookparalysisrevengeragemonkeydisabilityscience run amokanimal testinganimal research
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