- HD 1080
- Runtime: 113m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: George A. Romero
- Stars: Jason Beghe, John Pankow, Kate McNeil, Joyce Van Patten, Christine Forrest
- keywords: experiment, based on novel or book, paralysis, revenge, rage, monkey, disability, science run amok, animal testing, animal research
- Production_studio: Orion Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Slogan: Once there was a man whose prison was a chair. The man had a monkey, they made the strangest pair. The monkey ruled the man, it climbed inside his head. And now as fate would have it, one of them is dead.
- providers: MGM Plus, ScreenPix Apple TV Channel
- The Monkey Shines is featured in the top rankings of 1988
- #26 in Top Horror Movies of 1988
A quadriplegic man is given a trained monkey help him with every day activities, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master and those who get too close to him.