“Something’s wrong with Ben.” Such a simple sentence that really just makes your blood run cold when you understand the context. ‘Primate’ tells the story of Ben, a chimpanzee who has been adopted into a loving family. For years, he’s built a reputation due to his mother, whose taught him how to communicate with a […]
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In 1982, Taiwanese director William Chang Kee released an animal attack film that was intended to be exploitive, shocking, and violent. What he accomplished was something that still rings true to this day on a multitude of levels. In “Calamity of Snakes”, a wealthy businessman has hired a highly-regarded young architect to complete a high-rise
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Director J.P. Simon has a reputation for his distinctive, disgusting taste. A majority of his directing canon proves to often be an exercise in visceral gore, female nudity, dark humor, and absolutely absurd visual elements. In 1988, he took a more subtle approach to the animal attack genre with “Slugs”. When a bunch of murderous
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