Monkey Shines (1988)
3/10
Another George Romero Disappointment
30 October 2006
For over an hour, this was fairly interesting but by the time the last 30-40 minutes had arrived, the unlikeable characters and general nature of the film made me not want to see much more. I did stick it out for the ending, climactic scenes but wouldn't watch this movie again. It just wasn't as good as I had hoped. For some reason, I had high expectations.

However, like other of George Romero's horror films, this has profane and very stupid dialog, attitudes, so-so special-effects and a Class B-feel to it. Why I expected better, I don't know. Romero almost always disappoints me.

The only redeeming quality of this film was seeing the beautiful face of Joyce VanPatten, a natural beauty if I ever saw one.
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