Primate

Name: Primate
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1974-12-05
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 6.4

1974·Documentary·1h 45m

6.4

★

Primate sees realist documentarian Frederick Wiseman hone his lens on the inmates of the Yerkes Primate Research Centre. A representative scientist explains the aims and outcomes of the organisation, describing the mating habits and relationships of the animals.

Directed by Frederick Wiseman

IMDB

N/A

Letterboxd

3.8 / 5

Crew

Frederick Wiseman

Director

Frederick Wiseman

Editor

Frederick Wiseman

Producer

Popular Reviews

9 reviews

Tommy Giacomini

5.0★ · 01/27/26

The script was terrible and the line delivery made it even worse it was just a shitty movie and I can almost guarantee that they realized how bad the script was decided to double down on bad shock value gore the only thing this movie really had going for it was how it portrayed the deaf character and I think that was pretty exclusively because of the actor 💀

Henry Gamboa

4.0★ · 01/13/26

more funny than scary

Tea

6.0★ · 01/09/26

rip jane goodall you wouldve hated this probably

Joe Vinci

8.0★ · 01/09/26

he loves making movies about sisters in hawaii against animals

this was awesome, brutal, full of suspense, an awesome score

felt like an homage to halloween at points, chimp michael meyers

Oli Dauberman

6.0★ · 09/24/25

fun little movie! the practical effects looked really great, and the Carpenter-esque score was cool.

do not own monkeys as pets guys!! 👎

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