Shakma

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1h 40min

A group of medical students are attacked by an aggressive laboratory animal while competing in an after-hours role-playing game at their school.A group of medical students are attacked by an aggressive laboratory animal while competing in an after-hours role-playing game at their school.A group of medical students are attacked by an aggressive laboratory animal while competing in an after-hours role-playing game at their school.A group of medical students are attacked by an aggressive laboratory animal while competing in an after-hours role-playing game at their school.A group of medical students are attacked by an aggressive laboratory animal while competing in an after-hours role-playing game at their school.

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Christopher Atkins, Roddy McDowall, Ari Meyers, and Amanda Wyss in Shakma (1990)

Christopher Atkins and Ari Meyers in Shakma (1990)

Roddy McDowall and Greg Flowers in Shakma (1990)

An experimental drug that is supposed to reduce aggression has the opposite effect on a baboon that is being experimented on by a group of medical students and their professor. While they are playing a fantasy role-playing game in their research facility, the baboon escapes and begins hunting them down. —page8701

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Taglines
- The world's most aggressive primate just got mad
Genres
Certificate
- R
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Trivia
Shakma is played by the baboon, Typhoon (handled by Gerry Therrien). Typhoon also played the baboons in The Fly (1986) and Duncan Jax's baboon in Order of the Black Eagle. Order of the Black Eagle is also featured on Order of the Black Eagle, Wired to Kill, and Raiders of Atlantis (2016).

Goofs
The baboon appearing in the movie is not a chacma but hamadryas - a different species. The chacma baboon (Papio ursinus) is the largest species of baboon, whilst the hamadryas (Papio hamadryas) is significantly smaller and easily recognizable by a mane around his face - the only baboon species to have such feature.

Quotes
Tracy: You are soooooo male!

Connections
Featured in Best of the Worst: Shakma, Python II, and Beaks: The Movie (2014)

Top review

7/10

Turn off your mind and get ready for some ape-tastic surprises

You are currently reading about an excellent (see: totally ridiculous) Saturday morning monster movie starring Amanda "Tina from A Nightmare on Elm St." Wyss and Christopher "Blue Lagoon" Atkins (among others). Sounds like a terrible movie, so why do you love it mickeyshamrock? Well, aside from the typical "so bad it's good" moments, and my raging hard on for Amanda Wyss, the baboon footage is insane. I've never seen anything like it. Shakma (aka Typhoon) literally goes ape sh*t every take. Every time the baboon is on camera it elevates this movie beyond it's B-movie shackles. Definitely to be watched in one sitting, breaking it up will only expose some of it's faults. Turn off your mind and get ready for some ape-tastic surprises.

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