Movie·1988·113 min

Monkey Shines

Name: Monkey Shines
Genre: Horror, Science Fiction, Drama, Thriller
Released: 1988-07-29
Duration: 113 min
Rating: 6.3
Cast: Jason Beghe, John Pankow, Kate McNeil, Joyce Van Patten, Christine Forrest

Monkey Shines streams in the US on Amazon Prime Video, fuboTV, MGM+ Amazon Channel, Philo and 3 more apps, as of October 6, 2026.

Once there was a man whose prison was a chair. The man had a monkey, they made the strangest pair. The monkey ruled the man, it climbed inside his head. And now as fate would have it, one of them is dead.

6.3 / 10 · TMDB

Horror Science Fiction Drama Thriller

A quadriplegic man is given a trained monkey help him with every day activities, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master and those who get too close to him.

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