Blood Monkey (2007)

Thanks for the memories!

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Most creature features recently had the same problem: extensively showing creatures that look computer generated from a mile. In that respect, 'Blood Monkey' is much better, because it doesn't show the monkeys through 95 pct of the running time. Suspense is created successfully, because the characters only know something is lurking in the jungle, but they have no idea how dangerous it actually is. This is closer to the 1940s horror movie style than the current gore-in-your-face flicks which leave nothing to imagination. I also liked the location in Thailand, it provides a convincing background.On the other hand, the movie has serious flaws. To name a few: the video camera thing, one actor filming the others, which has been done to death in the past decade. Story logic - for example, why do they go hunting with only one huntress and one gun, I'd have armed myself to the teeth if I were in the professor's place? Briefly, there is some irrational behaviour to the point it's sometimes annoying, such as the students buying cheap excuses, and some of the young actors appear to be quite amateurish, anyway, but I realise it is a tough job for them to play next to an F M Abraham.To sum it up, the movie was not extraordinary, but at least better than I expected from the other reviews around here, and more interesting than various recently released shark, crocodile or piranha flicks. I voted 5/10.

Almost every aspect of this movie could be better, but overall its worth a horror movie one- time watch. Scary enough for some to keep you at least riveted throughout. Shot entirely in the bush in Thailand, its gives you a real feel for the environment as you are not frequently whisked away by some annoying sub-plot, or worse, the dreaded above-all-else, behind-the-scenes plot.The cast / acting is actually very good IMO, however the written plot did not do the actors justice. They often make decisions that real individuals would not, could not, conceivably do, and they are the decisions that drive the entire course of the film. But alas, that is horror. People make ghastly decisions and get killed for it.Watch this movie once, you won't be too disappointed.

Lets strike up the band people, another Sci-Fi Channel ho-hum movie. I rated it as a 4 as it wasn't the worst of the movies they've done nor was it their best. It had fair acting from F. Murray Abraham that plays the over the hill mad professor of Anthropology that has discovered an extremely brutal smart anthropoid. He leads a group of students that by appearances think they are going to "Safari Land," on a misguided search into the deep jungle to find the creatures with disastrous results. The premise and the storyline of the movie works for me as well any Horror/Sci-fi/Action flick. The problem is with the direction and acting of the actors that leave so much to be desired. The characters were very shallow and that is the director and writer's job to fill in the, "Why we are so dumb," story that makes sense. Otherwise we wind up with a movie like "Bloodmonkey," with so-called smart students doing the most gullible dumbest things and acting like high school morons with an IQ of 80. If Sci-Fi could figure out a simple premise that all students on digs, research or hunts are not shallow blithering morons, it would go a long way to making their movies a lot better.

--before you set out to write a so-called "Review." I will admit, I have not seen this movie, and now I am not sure I want to (that's how I ended up at IMDb--to find out more about the movie). Normally, I rely upon the reviews listed on IMDb but, this time, I read somebody's "review" that lists none other than "elderly" "tv veteran" Robert Young as playing a role in the movie.Well, Robert Young died in 1998. Really. Check it out. This movie came out during the year 2007; has it really been in the can for ten years? I really doubt it, particularly since Robert Young is not listed among the names of the cast members on the IMDb's own web page about this movie.Hey--if the movie sucks, fine. Let 'em have it. But don't pull "facts" out of your well, rear end, when you're writing your definitive, informative review.