A professor adopts a chimpanzee, names him Ben and develops his intelligence and communication skills, and after her death her daughter Lucy returns to the family's fabulous isolated Hawaiian home with her group of pretty young people, but an unfortunate case of rabies turns Ben from cute animal friend to murderous enemy who traps, terrorises and picks off most of the disposable cast. After the well-constructed shock prologue, the tale flashes back to tell the events of the preceding thirty-six hours with rather slow set-up, but the film then switches up a few gears to become a zippy and atmospheric thriller/slasher, in which the young women take centre stage and the males are the Shreddies. The film makes clever use of limited sets/locations, with Carpenter's original Halloween a clear touchstone here. Inclusion through sign language and the deaf father is a positive integral part of the plot, it certainly does not skimp on the quite nasty injury detail, and this simple, low-key tale is delivered very efficiently and effectively enough for genre fans.
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