🐒On July 29, 1988 “Monkey Shines” was released in theaters! Written and directed by George A. Romero and starring Jason Beghe, Kate McNeil, John Pankow, Stanley Tucci, Stephen Root, Patricia Tallman and Joyce Van Patten. Its plot follows a young athlete who becomes a paralyzed quadriplegic, and develops a bond with an intelligent service monkey named "Ella" who becomes homicidal after she is injected with an experimental serum of human brain tissue. It is based on the 1983 British novel of the