Fun Box Monster Podcast #103 : SHAKMA (1990)

When Roddy McDowell, the head of an inexplicably animal-based medical school, get a hair across his ass to inject the most dangerous animal they have in what appears to be a huge menagerie (you know, because it's med school) with a drug that usually calms animals down, but once in a while drives them murderously insane, things go poorly. Despite his obvious cinematic familiarity with primates, he somehow missteps and this turns out to be one of the times the serum makes a monkey murderous. Oh, also there's a completely incomprehensible subplot about them playing some live action role playing thing that makes zero sense and is just a flimsy pretext to get them locked in the building. Typhoon the Baboon is a freaking star. He delivers big time. The rest of the cast were apparently so afraid of Typhoon, that they had a hard time staying on top of what they were doing. You know. Because of the justified reputation baboons have for ripping arms off and eating faces.  PS. I love this movie, but dammit nothing makes any sense. There's barely a single action, plot element, or scrap of dialog that I could follow.  If you take two seconds to think about what anyone is doing it will break your brain. So just go with it. Sit back, cut yourself a big slice of whatever they're keeping in the fridge of the baboon brain surgery unit, grab a handful of immobilization dust and join Matt and Tristan in the cinematic monkey crematorium known as, SHAKMA.