"Primate"

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

For this week's main podcast review, Dan Bayer, Giovanni Lago, and Tom O'Brien join me to discuss the killer monkey horror movie "Primate," starring Johnny Sequoyah, Jessica Alexander, and Academy Award winner Troy Kotsur. Directed by Johannes Roberts, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Ernest Riera, the film had its world premiere at Fantastic Fest 2025, where it received positive reviews for its gore effects, the decision to have the rabid chimpanzee portrayed by an actor in a costume rather than created through CGI, and its effective handling of tone with a brisk runtime. What did we think of it though? Please tune in as we discuss these elements and more in our SPOILER-FILLED review. Thank you for listening, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is our review for primate.
0:05.3	We're in Hawaii, baby.
0:08.8	This is crazy.
0:12.4	This is home.
0:15.5	There's someone I want you to meet.
0:17.2	This is Ben.
0:18.5	My hand?
0:19.4	He wants to shake my hand?
0:21.6	Hi, babe. Our mom rescued him.
0:23.6	And now he's part of our family.
0:25.6	Ben, happy.
0:27.6	He's kind of cute.
0:29.6	Yeah, right? Ben?
0:38.3	Did something bite him?
0:42.3	Oh.
0:43.3	Oh.
0:45.3	Oh.
0:46.3	Oh.
0:48.3	Ben?
0:53.3	There's something wrong with Ben.
0:59.0	Hey, what happened?
1:06.0	It's me. Lucy.
	...

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