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Monkey Boy (1992)
Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark
Cast: Christine Kavanagh, John Lynch, Kenneth Cranham, Gary Mavers
Runtime104 min
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Half man, half monkey, Chad was born in a lab and kept hidden from the world. A journalist, investigating a macabre mass-murder, discovers the mutant boy — a creature with the mind of a child and superhuman strength. But the reporter finds out the hard way that nothing, and nobody, can stand in the way of progress. (Re-titled for its American VHS release, "Monkey Boy" is an abbreviated film version of Lawrence Gordon Clark's 1991 mini-series "Chimera".)
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Monkey Boy, a 1992 TV movie directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark, is a horror film about a mutant boy with superhuman strength. While details about the film's critical reception and awards are limited, it appears to be a lesser-known work that has not received significant mainstream attention.
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Fans of director Lawrence Gordon Clark's unique horror style will appreciate the unsettling blend of man and beast in 'Monkey Boy', a 1992 TV movie exploring the dark consequences of scientific experimentation on a human subject with superhuman strength.
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Chimera is a British science-fiction horror drama made by Zenith Productions and Anglia Films for ITV in 1991. It is based on the 1982 novel of the same name about genetic engineering by Stephen Gallagher. Gallagher had previously adapted the novel as a 90 minute dramatised audio drama for BBC Radio 4 in 1985. The theme music of the TV mini-series was "Roisin Dubh" by Nigel Hess and Chameleon.
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