Director Christopher Edwards Roberts has a slew of horror movies to his name, some successful some largely forgotten, his titles have included The Other Side of The Door (2016), 47 Meters Down (2017) The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018) and the runt of the Resident Evil Films, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021).

Now he turns his attention to rabid chimpanzees.

The path that Roberts film is taking is set out in the first minutes begins when a vet enters the cage of the chimpanzee only to have his face ripped off. After that it’s pretty much 90 minutes or so of bloody mayhem.

Set, unsurprisingly, on a remote part of Hawaii, Lucy Pinbourogh (Johnny Sequoyah) returns to her family home with a couple of friends after being away at college for a few years.

Staying at the house is her sister Erin (Gia Hunter), her father Adam (Troy Kotsur), a famous novelist, is deaf and primarily communicates through sign language and a trained chimpanzee called Ben.

Leaving the young ones alone in the house when he goes on a book signing trip it’s not long before poor Ben becomes rabid, after been bitten by an infected mongoose, of all things, and ends up killing the poor teenagers one by one.

Primate is just your typical slasher film, only this time the slasher is a monkey.

Primate is about as dumb as a slasher film can be with the victims being outwitted at every turn by a rabid chimpanzee. There only survival skills appear to be trying to find their mobiles so they can call for help.

Like many of the director’s previous films this pile of chimpanzee poo will largely be forgotten in a few years, sorry scratch that, in a few months.