Primate is such a cruel little movie that it occasionally flirts with crossing the line from dumb January fun to grim exploitation. Its premise is simple: A beloved family chimpanzee, Ben (played by ...

At the height of Michael Jackson 's career, his closest confidante was Bubbles, a pet chimpanzee who went everywhere with the ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new report finds thousands of African primates, including chimpanzees and gorillas, are being traded both legally and illegally. Most of the legal trade in great apes is for scientific and zoo ...

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 ...

Kicking off the 2026 horror lineup. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. We’re dealing with a violent chimpanzee in Primate, as a ...

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Jessica Alexander as Hannah and Miguel Torres Umba as the motion-capture performer of Ben the chimp sitting in a car in Primate - Paramount Pictures There's just something about the idea of our ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lucy (Johnny Sequoyah) screams at Ben. in "Primate," in theaters Friday. Photo courtesy of Paramount Pictures LOS ANGELES, Jan. 6 ...