# Monkey Shines - Esperimento nel terrore (1988)

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**Original title**: *Monkey Shines*
**Runtime**: 113 min
**Genres**: Horror, Science Fiction, Drama, Thriller
**Directed by**: George A. Romero
**Written by**: George A. Romero
**Starring**: Jason Beghe, John Pankow, Kate McNeil, Joyce Van Patten, Christine Forrest, Stephen Root

> *Once there was a man whose prison was a chair. The man had a monkey, they made the strangest pair. The monkey ruled the man, it climbed inside his head. And now as fate would have it, one of them is dead.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Rainy Pittsburgh streets, a wheelchair, screeching tires. 
A quadriplegic man relies on a trained monkey for aid. 
George Romero directs this unsettling tale.

**Mood tags**: dread, raw

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