A really athletic dude named Allan (Jason Beghe) was hit by a pick-up and paralyzed. Not that the pick-up truck did him any favors, but the guy was running with ankle weights and a backpack full of bricks--it was only a matter of time before his knees would've been destroyed by that abuse. To help him out he was offered a trained monkey, Ella.
Ella could do simple tasks that were immeasurably helpful like fetch a book, give him snacks, play a cassette tape, etc. Ella was a bit enhanced though. This poor little gal, who never asked to be a guinea pig, was experimented on with some psychotropic drug. It was supposed to make her more intelligent, but it did a lot more than that.
I'm not sure which was the first movie to experiment with making a smarter animal that went horribly wrong (see Deep Blue Sea and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes), but this one is the earliest one I know of.
Ella, as a result of the experimental drug, had a psychic connection with Allan. Even more than that, Ella's very presence made Allan hostile and angry towards everyone and Ella, aiming to please her master, would act upon Allan's anger. She became a killer monkey.
Have you ever seen the YouTube clip of the trunk monkey? Well, Ella was that and then some. She was a little thing, like the size of a spider monkey, so she had to be cunning, but she got the job done. And what do we do when an animal is dangerous? We kill it. Forget about the fact that she was made into a killer by some desperate mad scientist, the bottom line is that she was now a killer and had to be killed herself.
It is a sad movie. She was so adorable. She only wanted to please Allan. This is not me being a radical PETA member, this was a really cute monkey. I wish I had a little monkey like her. Minus the killing. At the very least she's a good ice breaker and conversation starter.
Ella could do simple tasks that were immeasurably helpful like fetch a book, give him snacks, play a cassette tape, etc. Ella was a bit enhanced though. This poor little gal, who never asked to be a guinea pig, was experimented on with some psychotropic drug. It was supposed to make her more intelligent, but it did a lot more than that.
I'm not sure which was the first movie to experiment with making a smarter animal that went horribly wrong (see Deep Blue Sea and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes), but this one is the earliest one I know of.
Ella, as a result of the experimental drug, had a psychic connection with Allan. Even more than that, Ella's very presence made Allan hostile and angry towards everyone and Ella, aiming to please her master, would act upon Allan's anger. She became a killer monkey.
Have you ever seen the YouTube clip of the trunk monkey? Well, Ella was that and then some. She was a little thing, like the size of a spider monkey, so she had to be cunning, but she got the job done. And what do we do when an animal is dangerous? We kill it. Forget about the fact that she was made into a killer by some desperate mad scientist, the bottom line is that she was now a killer and had to be killed herself.
It is a sad movie. She was so adorable. She only wanted to please Allan. This is not me being a radical PETA member, this was a really cute monkey. I wish I had a little monkey like her. Minus the killing. At the very least she's a good ice breaker and conversation starter.