Blue Monkey (film)
The most terrifying creature ever to come out of a test tube.
Blue Monkey is a 1987 Canadian horror film directed by William Fruet. The story follows a group of doctors trapped in a quarantined hospital as a giant insect-like creature spreads a deadly infection. The film was released on VHS by March 31, 1988, and received mostly negative reviews upon its release.
Quick Facts
- Director
- William Fruet
- Producer
- Martin Walters / executive / Sandy Howard
- Writer
- George Goldsmith / Chris Kosulek (uncredited)
- Starring
- Steve Railsback / Gwynyth Walsh / Don Lake / Sandy Webster / Helen Slayton-Hughes
- Music
- Patrick Coleman / Paul Novotny
- Cinematography
- Brenton Spencer
- Editing
- Michael Fruet
- Distributor
- International Spectrafilm
- Released
- 25 September 1987 · United States
- Runtime
- 96 minutes
- Language
- English
- Country
- Canada
Facts from the source article.
Lore & Background
The film centers on an eccentric old woman, Marwella Harbison, who owns a greenhouse. Handyman Fred Adams pricks his finger on a plant from a newly formed volcanic island off Micronesia and soon collapses with a high fever. At Hill Valley Hospital, doctors Rachel Carson and Judith Glass find gangrene at the wound, and Fred vomits an insect pupa. The pupa is contained in a bell jar, but when lab technician Alice Bradley leaves it unguarded to have sex, children from the pediatric ward feed it a growth hormone, causing it to grow gigantic and break free. The creature kills several people and builds a nest in the hospital's utility tunnels.
Reader's Guide
Blue Monkey was part of a three-picture deal between Sandy Howard and RCA-Columbia, alongside Dark Tower and Nightstick. It received a 30% tax benefit for being shot in Canada with Canadian talent. The original title was Green Monkey, changed due to a theory that AIDS was started by infected African green monkeys. The story was inspired by the success of Aliens (1986). The film received mostly negative reviews; Janet Maslin of The New York Times called it a standard angry-larva story, and Leonard Maltin awarded it a BOMB rating. However, HorrorNews.net gave a positive review, and Joshua Millican from HorrorFreakNews.com included it on a list of underappreciated horror movies only found on VHS.
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