Sitges 2025: Johannes Roberts’ ‘Primate’ is Brutal Angry Chimp Horror

There’s a brand new apes movie coming to theaters soon. Though this one is definitely not for the faint of heart. Primate is a freaky, brutal, wild new horror movie from genre filmmaker Johannes Roberts. After premiering at this year’s Fantastic Fest & Beyond Fest, it’s next playing at the 2025 Sitges Film Festival and other fests around the world before it crashes in theaters in January next year. Roberts is already a horror cinema veteran – he also directed the two 47 Meters Down shark movies, along with Forest of the Damned, Storage 24, The Other Side of the Door, The Strangers: Prey at Night, and 2021’s Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City. Primate is something new – even though it seems like a familiar concept, about a usually calm, cuddly pet turning into an evil killing machine, we’ve never seen a horror movie just like this before. Which is an exciting experience. A chimpanzee living with a family inside their gorgeous, huge home located on a cliff in Hawaii contracts rabies and goes mad, stalking and murdering the people who are there. It’s as cheesy as any good horror movie should be, but also crazy scary & disturbing to watch. I had a blast with it. // Continue Reading ›