Primate

3.3 - Admittedly, I just don’t like animal based horror very often, so if you do, & can move past the logic issues they usually have, then you’ll probably like this.

A lot of my complaints here are my general animal horror complaints. I have two big ones for this specifically. First, the animal puppetry is terrible. I know you can make a chimp look better than that. Second, there are so many moments that just fly in the face of logic & reason that despite my best efforts to suspend disbelief, I just can’t.

SPOILERS:

These teens are not stronger than a chimp in any way. You can’t push it, win tug of war with it, hold a door closed against it, or punch it into submission. Additionally, just minimal logic breaks down a lot of the plot. What’s the timeline here? Wasn’t the dad on a far away trip? Why couldn’t you just use Siri and call 911? Why did not one teen carry their phone with them? I’ll stop there but it just added up too much too quickly.

I’m happy to see Troy Kotsur again. And the gore and kills were solid, & was enough to keep some tension up, so anyone just looking for a gorefest will probably have fun. But it’s just never my thing. I mostly just felt bad for Ben because it wasn’t his fault.

Loved it for the jump scares. Had some good comedic relief moments which i appreciated. Was almost giving 47 Meters Down/Crawl vibes.

As far as goofy dumb-fun horror movies go, this one’s a pretty damn good one. They do a really good job with both visual and practical effects at making Ben seem genuinely scary and the tension is held really well the whole time.

It’s a decent popcorn movie with some flaws, but I get it some of the things that happened was needed to move the movie forward. I do feel most of the characters made dumb decisions. You can maybe chalk that up to be fear and not thinking things through before it happens.

Super suspenseful & lowkey scary but like at the same time Ben is so cute

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