NATURE BITES BACK! Pt 20: Link (1986) & Monkey Shines (1988)
The Evolution of Horror
Mike Muncer
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2024
⏱️ 103 minutes
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This week Ally Penelope joins Mike Muncer to discuss a double dose of primate horror! They discuss Richard Franklin's insane LINK (1986) and George Romero's underrated MONKEY SHINES (1988)!
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| 0:00.0 | The Humans Humans share around 98.9% of DNA with humans, making them the closest creatures to us on this planet. |
| 0:35.0 | Throughout this series, we've talked about snakes, sharks, |
| 0:38.2 | alligators, and creatures that seem so far from humans |
| 0:41.8 | they feel almost alien. But what about movies that focus on |
| 0:46.1 | creatures much closer to us? These present their very own particular kinds of threat. |
| 0:54.4 | In 1986, Richard Franklin made a gothic horror film about a woman trapped in an English |
| 0:59.7 | mansion with a killer chimp. |
| 1:02.3 | Franklin worked with screenwriter Everett de Roche, writer of Long Weekend, to create a strange |
| 1:08.3 | gothic horror movie. |
| 1:10.0 | Franklin, who had previously directed Psycho 2, wanted to give the movie a Hitchcockian feel, |
| 1:16.2 | balancing mystery and suspense with a strange wacky tone of a killer chimp movie. Similarly in 1988 George Romero made his biggest and most |
| 1:27.3 | ambitious movie to date with monkey shines. Once again a strange awkward tightrope of tonal balance with human drama |
| 1:36.5 | mixed with wacky monkey hijinks in a story about a paraplegic man befriending a monkey with deadly consequences. |
| 1:48.2 | Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of nature in horror and we discuss Richard Franklin's link and George Romero's Monkey Shines. Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike Munzer and as ever I am your |
| 2:08.7 | host. In this podcast we explore and dissect the history and the evolution of the horror genre one sub-genre at a time. |
| 2:16.1 | We are currently in the middle of our 10th season exploring the evolution of nature biting |
| 2:21.0 | back in horror, and this is part 20. In this week's episode as that |
| 2:26.4 | intro suggested we're looking at two monkey focused or chimp focused horror |
| 2:30.8 | movies we're looking at Link from 1986 and Monkey Shines from 1988. |
| 2:37.0 | Both of these discussions will be spoilerific. Go and give these weird and bonkers movies a watch before you listen to our discussion. |
| 2:46.7 | So joining me to discuss this week's films, I've got a brand new guest with me. |
| 2:50.4 | She was a co-host on a podcast that I made with her a long time ago called Kill Count and I'm very excited to finally have her here on Eoh. A big welcome to Ali Penelope. Hello, Ali. |
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