‘Primate’ asks what would happen if a pet monkey decided to go ape on his human family like a slasher horror villain, and the answer looks both hilarious and terrifying.
Paramount Pictures flung open the cage earlier today with the official trailer for its upcoming horror film, Primate. Judging by the footage, the film straddles the line between slasher thrills and absurdist humor, leaning into the ridiculousness of its premise with gleeful abandon that’s bound to put curious butts in seats to see how its story unfurls.
Directed by Johannes Roberts and co-written by Ernest Riera and Johannes Roberts, Primate‘s trailer starts innocuously enough, barring the pre-trailer thing all movies tend to do, laying out its premise before letting you know the trailer you clicked on is about to start. After the pre-trailer teaser, which features a 911 call with a chimpanzee howling in the background as a caller tells the operator, “He killed all the others,” we see a group of college students relaxing in a lavish vacation house in Hawaii.
