Horror traditionally finds a place at the New Year’s winter box office after the Christmas tentpole (this year, Avatar: Fire & Ash ) makes a tear, and in January that’s Paramount and 18Hz’s Primate .

As you can see in the trailer, it can also be titled ‘Island of the Ape’. Har, har, har.

The Johannes Roberts directed and co-written movie follows a friends’ Hawaiian vacation that goes wrong when the pet chimp, Ben, turns on his master and those around him. As you can see from above, the 1981 comedy, Going Ape with Tony Danza and Danny DeVito, this is not. Ben is a monkey who would scare off Caesar from Planet of the Apes and Clyde from Clint Eastwood’s Every Which Way But Loose into the trees. As aptly observed by one of the young women in the trailer: “There’s something wron

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