'Primate' Review: Paramount comes out swinging in 2026 with wild horror flick about a nightmare pet chimp |
The trailer for Paramount Pictures' horror film "Primate" starring Johnny Sequoyah, Troy Kotsur and Miguel Torres Umba. Directed by Johannes Roberts.
January has a reputation for being a bad month at the movies. After a crowded theatrical window during the holiday season, January is the time for bottom-of-the-barrel releases and big screen gambles that frequently result in box office bombs.
Which is why Paramount's "Primate" will catch many by surprise, particularly horror fans.
Set in beautiful Hawaii, the film centers around Ben (Miguel Torres Umba), a hyper-intelligent chimpanzee who was the test subject of a linguistic professor and had him living in an enclosure outside her remote luxurious home. Even after the professor dies from cancer, Ben is still "part of the family."
The remaining members of Ben's Homo sapien family are Lucy (Johnny Sequoyah), a college student who estranged herself after her mother's death; her resentful younger sister Erin (Gia Hunter); and their preoccupied writer father Adam (Troy Kotsur).
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Benjamin Cheng as "Nick," Victoria Wyant as "Kate," Jessica Alexander as "Hannah," Johnny Sequoyah as "Lucy" and Miguel Torres Umba as "Ben" in "Primate" from Paramount Pictures. (Paramount Pictures )
Lucy is coming home from college with her best friend Kate (Victoria Wyant), who brought along the........