2007 · action · adventure · horror
Blood Monkey
Directed by Robert Young1h 28m2007
Six American grad students have arrived in Africa to study apes with a renowned professor. But after setting up camp in a jungle clearing, they soon become witness to the carnage inflicted by the strange and remote species.
Our read: Blood Monkey (2007) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive action · adventure · horror entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, measured action / adventure, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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