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Old 10-18-25 | 01:34 AM
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Primate (2026, D: Johannes Roberts) -- Killer Chimpanzee horror movie







In PRIMATE, a group of friends' tropical vacation turns into a terrifying, primal tale of horror and survival.




This was released at a horror film festival last month. Cody Leach, a horror movie YouTuber, loved it. He says it's gory as hell. This a theatrical release from Paramount. Not something headed to Screambox

Walter Hamada, who used to run DC Films, now runs Paramount's horror division is the main Producer.

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They played this trailer in front of Black Phone 2. Looks crazy!
Old 10-18-25 | 09:55 AM
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Is this a prequel to Nope?
Old 10-19-25 | 01:20 AM
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That looks awful. And that trailer felt endless.
Old 10-19-25 | 05:54 AM
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Glad Jane Goodall is not around to see this
Old 12-15-25 | 09:34 PM
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They played a commercial for this during RAW tonight… looks like Bongo’s taking a page out of Jason’s book.

​​​​​​…. and the rating is still pending?
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Originally Posted by RocShemp
That looks awful. And that trailer felt endless.
That's a good way to put it. It's my "browse the Internet" time in just about every movie I see for the past couple of months.
Old 01-05-26 | 09:17 PM
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This was the Scream Unseen tonight. It had some gnarly kills and it was a fine movie. A quick 90 min in one location that still kept it fresh. My main irk was the titanium plot armor the "sisters" to the chimpanzee had. They should have been killed quite a few times but always made it.
Old 01-05-26 | 09:24 PM
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I also enjoyed it, although I also found the ending starting to get a little ridiculous too with all of this hand to hand combat scenes. But the movie was definitely a crowd pleaser and a little comedy mixed it to increase the enjoyment.
Old 01-10-26 | 04:18 PM
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Apparently chimps don't make good pets. Who knew?

Was the dad at a middle of the night book signing?
Old 01-11-26 | 01:19 AM
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Re: Primate (2026, D: Johannes Roberts) -- Killer Chimpanzee horror movie

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Apparently chimps don't make good pets. Who knew?

Was the dad at a middle of the night book signing?
I guess in Hawaii, things only happen in the middle of the night, like vet visits.

I thought it was pretty dumb but kept my attention.
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One thing missing from the movie is the aftermath where that family gets (deservedly) sued into oblivion.
Old 01-11-26 | 01:38 PM
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Originally Posted by mwbmis
One thing missing from the movie is the aftermath where that family gets (deservedly) sued into oblivion.
my wife and I were talking about that after the movie.
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I was saying "I hope they have really good liability insurance" and we were discussing the real victims are the parents of the other kids that died. Who is going to clean the fish tank now? My wife thought they should have had the main girl die and the friend with the other half of the heart save the younger sister and survive. They needed some punishment for not warding off mongooses.
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Originally Posted by mwbmis
One thing missing from the movie is the aftermath where that family gets (deservedly) sued into oblivion.
Don't give away the plot to the sequel.
Old 01-11-26 | 02:15 PM
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Sometimes I love playing with Chat GPT. Here you go:

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Re: Primate (2026, D: Johannes Roberts) -- Killer Chimpanzee horror movie

It’s no Shakma, but it was good mindless fun.
Old 01-16-26 | 10:54 PM
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I finally saw this today. I loved it. Great throwback it just the simple horror movies of 20 to 30 years.

Man, Ben was a savage. Tearing off faces, limbs, jaws and bashing heads to a pulp.

This isn’t the kind of movie to over analyze. You either like these kind of movies or you don’t. I liked that it was straight to the point and under 90 minutes. A very fun watch.
Old 01-21-26 | 07:05 PM
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Re: Primate (2026, D: Johannes Roberts) -- Killer Chimpanzee horror movie

Originally Posted by DaveNinja
my wife and I were talking about that after the movie.
Spoiler:
I was saying "I hope they have really good liability insurance" and we were discussing the real victims are the parents of the other kids that died. Who is going to clean the fish tank now? My wife thought they should have had the main girl die and the friend with the other half of the heart save the younger sister and survive. They needed some punishment for not warding off mongooses.

That was my reaction to the ending. I doubt I'll see a worse movie dad all year. What I was hoping to see
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the daughter have her face ripped off/mutilated like that Bakersfield lady attacked by her friend's pet chimp. So yes, she survives, but the father has to look at the trauma of her transformation every day for the rest of his life. Ending the movie with them having a happy family moment all together made me want to shout at the screen, "Fuck you!"
Old 03-26-26 | 08:27 PM
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Re: Primate (2026, D: Johannes Roberts) -- Killer Chimpanzee horror movie

If you have Paramount+, this dropped a few days ago.
Old 03-27-26 | 06:43 AM
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Is the ape played by a real chimpanzee, an actor in an ape costume, or created entirely digitally with CGI?




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