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“Primate” tries to turn a chimpanzee into a slasher villain

Grant St. Clair
Oct 17, 2025
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The idea of “January movies” — low-budget, low-viewership films pushed out in the off-season — is a fascinating one. These are, essentially, movies for no one, created more to trawl for tickets than actually say anything. If that’s the case, Paramount‘s just-announced and inexplicably much-hyped Primate looks like the most January m…

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