Primate (2026)

6th February 2026

“Primate” is the latest offering from British filmmaker Johannes Roberts, whose career has spanned a fascinating range of horror genre fare since his early days. My first encounter with Roberts’ work was 2010’s eerily atmospheric, British high school slasher “F”, a film shot on a shoestring budget but loaded with a palpable sense of dread. Sixteen years later, “Primate” demonstrates just how far Roberts has come in his craft. The evolution is clear not only in his technical prowess but also in his willingness to experiment with narrative conventions, even as certain familiar themes and motifs persist throughout his filmography. As in his aquatic thrillers “47 Metres Down” and its sequel, Roberts again puts hapless protagonists in extraordinary peril, this time swapping sharks for a far more unusual—and unsettling—predator: a chimpanzee…

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