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Roger Engle (writer)
Release Date:
5 October 1990 (USA)
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The world's most aggressive primate just got mad
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A murderous baboon escapes from a laboratory and roams the research building, and begins to kill some teenagers who are also in the building playing a Dungeons-and-Dragons type game. | add synopsis
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Vastly entertaining horror flick about murderous baboon.
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Christopher Atkins | ... | Sam |
 | Amanda Wyss | ... | Tracy |
| Ari Meyers | ... | Kim |
 | Roddy McDowall | ... | Sorenson |
| Rob Edward Morris | ... | Gary (as Robb Morris) |
| Tre Laughlin | ... | Bradley |
| Greg Flowers | ... | Richard |
| Ann Kymberlie | ... | Laura |
| Donna Jarrett | ... | Brenda |
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Nemesis
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101 min
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Norway:18 (video premiere) |
Iceland:16 |
Finland:K-16 (video premiere) |
USA:R |
West Germany:18 |
UK:18
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Factual errors: The baboon appearing in the movie is not a Shakma but Hamadryas - different species. Shakma baboon (Papio ursinus) is the largest species of baboon, Hamadryas (Papio hamadryas) is significantly smaller and easy recognizable by a mane around his face - the only baboon species to have such feature.
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Roddy McDowall plays the professor Sorenson who juices up a baboon with brain serum so he'll be calmer,unfortunately he makes a mistake and instead of injecting the right serum,he injects the serum that turns him into a bloodthirsty predator."Shakma" is a much better film than Tom Logan's awful slasher "The Night Brings Charlie".It's full of violent animal action,mostly the baboon attacking and killing medical scientists and the other animals in the lab."Shakma" offers a nice amount of blood and gore and the killings are pretty brutal.The acting is solid,the score is amazing and the baboon is downright aggressive.Overall this is an immensely enjoyable animal-on-the-loose horror flick that should satisfy genre enthusiasts.Give it a chance.7 out of 10.