October 10th: Shakma, dir. Tom Logan, 1990. (United States) 1/5 pumpkins
A baboon slaughters co-eds (who are playing a Dungeons and Dragons-esque game in a hospital, for some reason). That's about it. This threadbare premise would have been pushing it at the length of your average X-Files episode; at 1 hour and 46 minutes, it's fucking interminable. That said, some of the shots of the titular baboon careening down hallways and launching himself at his victims are simultaneously hilarious and horrifying. Poor Roddy McDowell, he deserves better than this.
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