Primate
Directed by Johannes RobertsLucy, a college student, along with her friends, spend their vacation at her family's home in Hawaii, which includes her pet chimpanzee, Ben. However, when Ben contracts rabies after being bitten by a rabid animal, the group must fight for their lives in order to avoid the now-violent chimp.
Primate Ratings & Reviews
- buckan47December 30, 2025I went to the premiere and I couldn’t sleep for 2 days after
- Jacob Denaro1d agoI think it was great with the action. And with the grotesque scenes, but It seems like the nowaday movies they make. All humans look really, really stupid. It seems to be the things nowadays to make people people look helpless and look really really dumb
- Timeless CinemaJanuary 16, 2026As a tense horror film, there are moments that shine. Across the sum of its parts, it's a decent single watch for horror fans.
- levi4201January 16, 2026A enjoyable watch. On edge the whole time. Made me go chimp mode in the theater
- Hipster ZOMBIEJanuary 15, 2026Primate (2025) is pretty dumb, gloriously gory, and exactly the kind of midnight-movie creature feature that knows it’s throwing bananas and leans into the splatter. The setup is pure B-movie goodness: a crazed pet chimpanzee with rabies by way of a mongoose, and escalateing choas with some very stupid young adults caught in the middle. The gore lands hard and often, with wince-worthy kills that feel handcrafted for genre sickos who like their horror messy and mean. Like me. The human element is a circus of bad decisions. The kids are walking cautionary tales, and the parent (a deaf author who is about to go on a book tour) are so aggressively brain-dead you’ll forget they’re supposedly ape experts. It’s frustrating, hilarious, and oddly charming in how committed it is to stupidity. What really sells it is the score, a creepy, synth-soaked pulse that feels like a lost Goblin tape unearthed from a Dario Argento vault. Primate won’t be the best horror film of 2026, but it definitely won’t be the worst, and against all odds, you’ll probably have a damn good time watching it, I know I did.
- ScottJanuary 15, 2026It was a little too long even for 90 minutes but they did put a dude in a monkey suit instead of just doing vfx and he ruled.
- cursedbagsJanuary 12, 2026Crazy Ass Monkey.
- Kevin WardJanuary 6, 2026This happened to my buddy, Bubbles.
- RickJanuary 5, 2026I expected Bone Temple to be the January gem. This will be hard to beat. This movie fucking ripped, literally. Gore was out of control and I was on the edge of my seat the entire time. Kind of heart breaking too. Go see this in the fullest theater you can find.
Primate Trivia
Primate was released on January 8, 2026.
Primate was directed by Johannes Roberts.
Primate has a runtime of 88m.
Primate was produced by John Hodges, Bradley Pilz, Walter Hamada.
The key characters in Primate are Lucy (Johnny Sequoyah), Hannah (Jessica Alexander), Adam (Troy Kotsur).
Primate is rated R.
Primate is a Horror, Thriller film.
Primate has an audience rating of 7.1 out of 10.