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If you have never seen the unrestrained, unreasoning fury of an enraged baboon, brace yourself.

Watching Shakma, I started out thinking, "Well, he's just a little monkey, it's not like he's a tiger or a snake or something," but after seeing Typhoon throw himself (quite literally) into the role of Shakma, I reconsidered the destructive capabilities of the primate chassis.

Shakma is a many-armed frenzy of horror and doom, and this movie is absolutely worthwhile if only for that awe-inspiring display.

The acting's a little thin, and there are a few scenes that'll really make you roll your eyes, but if you get a chance to see this movie for under $5, take it. You won't be sorry.

Roddy McDowall plays the professor Sorenson who juices up a baboon with brain serum so he'll be calmer,unfortunately he makes a mistake and instead of injecting the right serum,he injects the serum that turns him into a bloodthirsty predator."Shakma" is a much better film than Tom Logan's awful slasher "The Night Brings Charlie".It's full of violent animal action,mostly the baboon attacking and killing medical scientists and the other animals in the lab."Shakma" offers a nice amount of blood and gore and the killings are pretty brutal.The acting is solid,the score is amazing and the baboon is downright aggressive.Overall this is an immensely enjoyable animal-on-the-loose horror flick that should satisfy genre enthusiasts.Give it a chance.7 out of 10.

A bunch of college students play a live-action fantasy role-playing game like Dungeon & Dragons in an (apparently) locked building with caged primates, with their professor acting as Dungeonmaster. They wander alone from room to room, communicating with the professor by walkie-talkie. There's some supposedly unbeatable villain in the game named Nemesis, but I don't know who he was. They're supposed to figure out some sort of word puzzle from things written on blackboards, which I guess is a code word to give to the heroine, who is the only one who bothered to dress up in a costume for the game.

The game is deadly boring, and they really should have made it more interesting and involving, or else contrived some other reason for the students to be in the building. I'd have to guess this movie is actually older than 1990, due to the poor picture quality and the terribly simplistic computer graphics on the computers that appear in the movie (although that may be the fault of the budget and not the age).

In between boring unsuspenseful scenes of people wandering around, a baboon attacks. The attacks are fairly violent, and if the movie's editing had been tighter, this might have been a better movie. There is a good scene of the baboon running down a hallway, and also towards the end a student has a plan to beat the baboon when we think he has given up that is also a good scene.

However, on the whole, the movie is too long, and has too many scenes that drag without serving a purpose. The characters are not really fleshed out, and looking at the list of actors and their characters' names, I can't tell who was who.

You are currently reading about an excellent (see: totally ridiculous) Saturday morning monster movie starring Amanda "Tina from A Nightmare on Elm St." Wyss and Christopher "Blue Lagoon" Atkins (among others). Sounds like a terrible movie, so why do you love it mickeyshamrock? Well, aside from the typical "so bad it's good" moments, and my raging hard on for Amanda Wyss, the baboon footage is insane. I've never seen anything like it. Shakma (aka Typhoon) literally goes ape sh*t every take. Every time the baboon is on camera it elevates this movie beyond it's B-movie shackles. Definitely to be watched in one sitting, breaking it up will only expose some of it's faults. Turn off your mind and get ready for some ape-tastic surprises.

When I saw that movie a few years ago it totally freaked me out. Which is surprising, as I had thought I had become immune to horror movies. I am surprised the movie got such a bad score, because for me it totally worked. Watch at night, alone.....

For those who have never seen "Shakma" (I would say a good 90%) the plot is this (warning very Minor spoilers ahead):

Some geeky-type scientist's play a "Dungeons & Dragons" type role-playing game where they work, they happen to work in an animal testing lab.. they have a Baboon called Shakma they experimented on... and.. when they think the baboon is dead they play their stupid game, not Realizing that THE BABOON IS NOT DEAD AND GOES INSANELY MAD AND KICKS THE CRAP OUT OF EVERYONE IT COMES ACROSS!

I spent the whole movie cheering for the Baboon and laughing my ass off as he beat the bejesus out of everyone!. late 80's- early 90's horror movies are just so brilliant, and this one is no exception.

i just cannot stress enough how great this movie is!

9/10 LONG LIVE SHAKMA!!!!!

Who doesn't like a psychotic monkey film? Fresh from playing a monkey himself in several thousand Planet of the Apes films, Roddy McDowall plays a cold, heartless college professor whom endears himself to the audience by performing some sort of operation on a baboon called Shakma. This doesn't go well and he asks Shakma's mate, Hero Guy, to put the monkey to sleep. Which he doesn't. Or something. I was too busy trying to figure all the crap they were talking about this game they were going on about.

This game they were going on about seems to be some sort of live action dungeons and dragons type deal, but not much is explained to be honest. Some jock manages to wangle his way into the game for reason, and to cut a long story short, everyone ends up trapped in the college building while Shakma gets up and starts tearing people's throats out. Some people think its all part of the game, while Hero Guy and his girlfriend run about in circles and barricade doors as Shakman goes nuts.

Although this kind of film can get tedious, this one wasn't too bad as Shakma as a real life monkey does come across as rather insane, and no wonder, if you read in the trivia bit on IMDb how they made him go mental. Even though there's not much in way of gore or nudity, Shakma certainly munched his way through a lot of the cast, so, if you see it for thirty pence at a car boot sale in Glasgow like I did, pick it up.

Is it even a monkey, or an ape? We'll never know.

Where is the love for Shakma? This is an entertaining, mindless cheesy Horror flick that came in the decline of a genre.

The movie is about a killer baboon. How could someone not like it? It's cheesy as hell and unintentionally funny but still it delivers expectations. I'm glad I rented this on VHS because I had a great moment. I laughed, cringed, and applauded for Shakma! The lead characters had great chemistry between each other. Wyss on her hottest form, Atkins, and the always fantastic Roddy McDowall were great on their roles. But keep in mind that Shakma is the real star of the movie. Our killer baboon made the entire movie watchable.

Rent this not so bad piece of 80's Horror trash and have a good time. Remember to keep your brain out of this. You won't need it.

This is one of my favorite non-human stalking a group of students in a building horror film.

If you haven't seen this film and will, stop reading this, I don't want to spoil it for you.

Shakma is one mean creature, he just goes for you and doesn't stop attacking until it kills you. I wish either of the leading ladies would have made it to the end, but I guess not in all horror films women become heroines, which is refreshing and disturbing at the same time.

This film has some characters you like and some you don't, I particularly liked Ari Meyers's character a lot, she was so sweet and hopelessly in love with Chris Atkins. Poor Ari faces the horrors of finding her brother dead and being attacked by Shakma all alone, why did Atkins have to leave her all alone?

...ok, maybe not the $$$$ at the box office. Let's face it Christopher Atkins and D & D was not a box office grabber in 1990 either. Shakma is a lot like drinking stout or maybe even scotch. It get's better after each viewing (or maybe it gets better after drinking scotch). OK, this film is really bad in many ways. But because I have fond memories of getting loaded with my old buddies while watching a crazed baboon beat against various objects it goes down as one of my top bad movies. Come on, just the name alone should put a grin on your face. Say it...SHAKMA. Keep on saying Shakma over and over. There is nothing that makes me happier then walking into a room, saying "Shakma" and having everyone laugh in agreement. Pass this on and maybe one day everyone will know what Shakma really means...

Slice'n'dice fright flicks featuring glassy-eyed psycho fruitcake killers hacking up jerky teenagers with all the charisma and personality of used, parched Play Dough were all the rage in the 80's, so it was only a matter of time before some desperately reaching hack screenwriter decided to cook up a would-be "high concept" entry in the slasher horror sub-genre which substitutes a crazed, screeching bloodthirsty baboon for your usual insane, heavy-breathing sanguinary subhuman lunatic. "Shakma" is that film; it's an often unintentionally uproarious riot that isn't scary for a minute, but does manage to be hugely amusing and entertaining straight-to-video trash just the same.

A bunch of bonehead college students playing a Dungeon and Dragons-type game in a high rise medical research center are stalked and killed by the titular deranged simian. Directors Tom Logan and Hugh Parks wearily go through the shopworn body count paces without ever injecting any vitality or originality into the threadbare proceedings. Roger Engle's trite script likewise skimps on the novelty, with all the creativity beginning and ending with the central gimmick of replacing a madman with a mad monkey. The baboon itself, played by the loud, irritating, uglier-than-a-horse's-a** Typhoon, proves to be more funny than fearsome (the scenes with this shrieking beast running down the halls after its victims are absolutely sidesplitting!). Most of the killings take place off screen and the gore is pretty mild. The irony of casting former "Planet of the Apes" series mainstay Roddy McDowell as your stereotypically well-meaning, but misguided scientist who's responsible for the whole bloody mess is a nice touch. The rest of the cast alas ain't so hot: onetime teen idol Christopher Atkins, the adorable Ari Meyers and Amanda Wyss (Freddy Krueger's first victim in the original "A Nightmare on Elm Street") all fail to believably bring their roles to life. All that criticism aside, this honey still qualifies as a total gut-busting campy hoot.

This is one of the most ridicules things I haw ever saw. But i still like it a lot. A great for viewing with a bunch of friends I guarantee it will haw you rolling down the floor. A group of teenagers battle to survive against the all mighty and angry baboon(u don't need pants for the victory dance...) There's a lot of scenes when the monkey roars like crazy and rampages thru corridors also a lot of stupid quotes and a whole bunch of very annoying characters. But it's fun just pure fun. I recommend it for people who like "stupid" movies and take pleasure in watching them because this movie as a horror is not scary at all. The monkey doesn't look so Evil that it could slay so many people but what I know, I never confronted a mad baboon. But I will bet twelve college students could stand against a panther or a small lion :)

Shakma is a good film and the Baboon is very mean. He maybe cute and neat looking but I know I wouldn't want him anywhere near Me.Roddy McDowall was very good and Christopher Atkins was good. If you like horror films about killer primates like Link or Monkey Shines then Shakma is one to watch!

I'm unsure why there's so much praise for this film because Shakma is really quite boring throughout. The whole storyline about "the game" is very dull and the only thing I was hoping would make it interesting was the killer baboon himself. There's a few decent scenes scattered about, but not nearly enough to call this a cult classic or even close to a cult classic. The scene where the woman gets killed in the toilet seemed very well shot at first, until she gets back up and reaches for the ventilation grill. Yeah, as if Shakma is gonna suddenly stop attacking her.

Overall, Shakma is not the worst horror film out there, but is nowhere near as good as others on here would have you believe.

The students in the med school of a university play a "Dungeons & Dragons" type of role playing game in their tower after hours. They're supervised by their head professor, Sorenson (Roddy McDowall). Unfortunately, one of their primate charges is a baboon named Shakma (played by "Typhoon"), who has been genetically altered - big surprise there - and who has now gone absolutely crazy, slaughtering any stupid human unlucky enough to be close to it. As the humans dwindle in number, they find that getting help from the outside world is next to impossible.

"Shakma" is pretty laughable, all right, not that it's *completely* worthless. The action is passable, the suspense passable. The most entertaining aspect is the animal action. Typhoon is a real force of nature and was obviously trained as well as a baboon could possibly be trained. Things get pretty gory, too. The movie is generally amusing for putting an "animal attack" spin on the standard slasher formula. Everything about it is no more than adequate on a technical level; it suffers the most from its silly script and inane characterizations. The actors treat the material with the best poker faces that they can muster: former teen idol Christopher Atkins, Amanda Wyss of the original "A Nightmare on Elm Street", Ari Meyers of 'Kate & Allie'. The casting of McDowall is certainly appropriate given his iconic role(s) in the "Planet of the Apes" franchise.

This is a junk movie, to be sure, but it's still reasonably entertaining. One big problem is that it's overextended, going on too long at approximately an hour and 42 minutes.

Five out of 10.

So the only reason to watch this rather insipid and cheaply-made flick is for the monkey. What talent! What sheer presence! It's a terrifying critter, and it's quite unnerving to watch it hurl its comparatively tiny body at stupid humans - and these nerds really do deserve to get monkey-cronked in this film, because they are absolute $∑^π at dealing with the reality they are thrust into, and the acting of the people playing them is absolute ø¥$# as well. Not even the good kind, but the kind that makes you spill bongwater on your couch, as you pass out harboring a sneaky suspicion that your time could have been better spent in this horizontal state all along.

Most of the movie takes place in a university building of some sort. You get lots of those heavy wood panel doors and bland corridor creamspace. But again - some pretty spectacular monkey attacks in this film.

Really, just fast-forward through to all the monkey scenes. It's the Shakma way.

In a flagrant breach of health and safety regulations (and flying in the face of common sense), professor Sorenson (Roddy McDowall, not playing an ape for a change) locks the external doors to the college, trapping himself and a handful of his students inside the building while they play a real-life fantasy role-playing game (with the use of a hilariously crap computer, tracking devices and walkie-talkies). Their fun is interrupted by a crazed lab baboon called Shakma, whose brain has been fried by an experimental serum.

Who knew that a baboon - not much bigger than an average sized dog - could be so butt-clenchingly scary? Shakma, directed by Hugh Parks and Tom Logan, starts off on shaky ground, the nerds playing their silly game proving rather boring, but once the angry ape shows up to spoil the evening, the film proves surprisingly terrifying thanks to a standout performance from Typhoon the baboon. Crazier than Nic Cage on cocaine, the hairy horror gives his all, screeching loudly, crashing wildly against doors, leaping onto victim's faces, and generally being one incredibly fearsome furry fellow.

With a willingness to bump off any character, no matter how likeable, a smattering of gore (the baboon goes mad with jaws and claws and likes to eat his victims), and an unpredictable ending, Shakma is a solidly entertaining B-movie - so much so that it's easy to forgive the clichéd cat scare (and rat scare).

Saw this movie on a rented VHS in the early 90s. Revisited it recently. Shakma was a good b horror fun for its time. The film is about an enraged primate who goes on the killing spree. The primate was actually frightening n fast paced but the storyline, acting n editing was lame. Found it to b dull now.

We've all heard the stories, and some of us have seen the pictures: a chimp goes apes--- and attacks a man/woman and proceeds to eat his/her face off. In SHAKMA, we have an enraged baboon wandering around a deserted office building with a bunch of role-playing nerds in the dead of night. Monkey or Ape (I prefer to think of baboons as Apes DESPITE the prehensile tail, because of their size), Shakma isn't the kind of creature you want to f--- around with- even in passing. When he becomes "enraged", he literally bounces off the walls, screaming his lungs out. I say "enraged" because the baboon in the movie isn't so much enraged as AROUSED. Look closely and you'll see whereof I speak... Give the filmmakers credit (or condemnation) for one thing: they had the nerve to sexually arouse a powerful primate just for a few scenes in their movie. Watch closely and you'll actually see the walls SHAKE when Shakma bounces off of them. That in itself puts this movie in a category all its own.

A group of medical students are planning to play live role game in the shape of "Dungeon and Dragons" in the medical campus building after hours. They'll be locked in and accompanied by Professor Sorenson, who'll be The Gamester that looks over the contest. While searching for clues, to eventually save the princess. They didn't expect a real nemesis would try to stop them, as now a furious, drugged up lab baboon is on the loose and tearing apart the gamers.

I'm stuck here, because I thought there were good moments within, but also equally bad aspects to this shonky, overwrought and mildly fun monkey on the rampage b-grade clunker. The disappointing thing is the premise pulls you right in, but what we get never lives up to it and its frustratingly vapid script with little success stretches the one-idea concept out. You could only do so much. It does seem to hold your interest in patches though, after a somewhat meandering set-up to begin with. Actually I got to hand it to screenwriter Roger Engle, as even though there was too much dead air and repetition, it still has guts and never took the easy option. The serious approach the material is going for is totally thrown off balance due to how silly going it gets and the lack of menace dripping off the "I have no respect for doors!" baboon. Some people might find the baboon terrifying, but on the other hand for me it came off pretty risible. Although that's me watching it, and not being in the same room with it, as if so Im sure it would be a different story. The baboon's obviously method performance was nothing but brilliant! Watching it bouncing about, dawdling around on its hind legs, shrieking in anger and the facial activity gave me a good laugh, but at least the attack scenes struck a nerve as they were brutally viscous and relentless in detail. Some took place off-screen, but were well done and the few we saw were unpleasantly aggressive. Decent gore FX was on show, but this was more so the aftermath and blood was spilled very often. Directors' Tom Logan and Hugh Parks do a mechanical job, in which case they could've done with much tighter editing. However because of the minimal production, it's stringent quality generates some well-mounted anxiety and claustrophobic passages. It's all about the jolts, and since we know that, we see them pretty much coming and in an all too quickly, cramp fashion. David C. Williams' brooding musical score is well placed throughout. The performances by the young cast including the likes of Christopher Atkins, Amanda Wyss and Ari Meyers is by the numbers. Roddy McDowall is reliably fine, in an all to familiar role.

Overly drawn out, but reasonably fun fodder.

Well to begin with, when I did see the movie I was around 11 or 12, and not having seen many scary movies; it did send chills down my spine seeing a simian with bloody gory teeth killing everyone in it's path. 16 years from the release of this movie I love watching scary movies. I do not know why; perhaps it is because I want to get over the fright I got from such movies as a child. I started watching scary movies for as long as I can remember (Perhaps age 4 or 5.) Nightmare on Elm street actually, gave me nightmares for quite some time as I SLEPT on a BED (If you know what I am talking about.)

Besides the scary part, I am lucky as I got to see such movies. It was difficult getting it in India. I guess coming from Bombay is what makes the difference, and having international connections surely helps a lot.

Well this movie does manage to keep preteens scared depending on the extent of exposure to scary movies. Shots of the psychotically crazed baboon frenziedly throwing itself against locked doors are quite effective.

A cold dark room with a loud surround sound system and/or sound activated vibrating chairs would do the trick. Enjoy!

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I've never been a fan of the murderous baboon sub-genre. Now monkeys, I can dig. But not baboons. I think it's the whole red a$$ thing. That being said, I have no idea why I rented this movie other than to pursue my goal of seeing every horror film ever made. Shakma has a very "made for TV" feel to it. The sets looked cheap as cheap gets and the plot was thin to say the very least. A group of med students gather in a research center for an after hours game of Dungeons and Dragons. Little do they know that the murderous primate, Shakma, is loose and on the prowl. The actors here are awful. Christopher Atkins (Blue Lagoon) and Amanda Wyss (A Nightmare on Elm Street) are the "heroes" and they are not convincing at all. Roddy McDowall...poor Roddy McDowall should have said no to this one. You really don't mind seeing the cast get mauled by the enraged baboon. The only interesting aspect of the flick was that everyone died. Which just goes to show only losers play D&D. For a better experience, check out Romero's Monkey Shines.

Shakma is a great movie. It's very scary and gruesome. The filming is a bit bad but other than that, it's a great movie.

Shakma rules! Okay, you might be wondering why on earth I would give this movie a 10. Years ago my best friend and I watched this ever so classic movie Shakma. It was the Channel 7 Late Late movie in New York one Friday night. Oh my goodness, we never laughed so hard in our lives.

1. First of all the movie is about a serial killer baboon; let me repeat that, A Serial Killer Baboon, Classic!

2. The overacting in death scenes, Classic!

3. The fact that Shakma ran faster than a cougar, Classic!

4. The obvious fake blood, Classic!

5. When one of the actresses hides in the bathroom and Shakma gets her as she's climbing out of the window, Doubly Classic!

Yes, yes I know it's supposed to be a horror flick but it turned out to be straight comedy. My best friend and I still talk about Shakma to this day. It's a must see.