'Primate' Review: Paramount comes out swinging in 2026 with wild horror flick about a nightmare pet chimp
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Paramount Pictures is coming out swinging in 2026 with the release of its horror film "Primate" starring Johnny Sequoyah, Troy Kotsur and Miguel Torres Umba.
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Set in beautiful Hawaii, the film centers around Ben (Miguel Torres Umba), a hyper-intelligent chimpanzee who was the test subject of a linguistic professor and had him living in an enclosure outside her remote luxurious home. Even after the professor dies from cancer, Ben is still "part of the family."
The remaining members of Ben's Homo sapien family are Lucy (Johnny Sequoyah), a college student who estranged herself after her mother's passing, her resentful younger sister Erin (Gia Hunter) and their preoccupied writer father Adam (Troy Kotsur).
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