History Film / Shakma

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Sam, Sam, Sam... First, he injects Shakma with the wrong chemical, sedating him instead of killing him like Sorenson ordered him too. The movie is ambiguous on whether or not Sam did this intentionally. Then, later, he doesn't tell Kim about [[spoiler:the death of Richard]], which results in her wandering off to find him and [[spoiler:gets killed herself]].

BlackDudeDiesFirst: Averted. Gary is the fourth person to die, after Bradley, Richard, and Sorenson.

* TooDumbToLive: Kim, for going off on her own to find Richard. Sure, Sam didn't explain in so many words that there was a killer baboon on the loose, but the bloody footprints leading to and from the bathroom where Tracy was killed should have tipped her off.

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Gary is the fourth person to die, after Bradley, Richard, and Sorenson.

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Gary is the third person to die.

-->-- [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2tnp4QCKtk Creepy Narrator]]

* CastingGag: Hmmmm, [=Roddy McDowall=] in a film where mutated apes hunt and kill humans. [[PlanetOfTheApes Where have I heard that before?]].

* EnforcedMethodActing: Shakma's angry bashing of doors is often quite real; they hid a female baboon in heat behind the door in question and hormones kicked in.

Along with Sorenson and their co-workers Gary and Bradley, they enjoy playing a {{LARP}} called ''Nemesis'' in the building after hours, and one night they schedule a game after all the other employees have knocked off for the night. Unfortunately for them, Sorenson had earlier performed some questionable brain surgery on Shakma, in an apparent attempt to reduce his aggression. It didn't go well, and the experiment apparently got reversed - Shakma instead became dangerously aggressive and started attacking people.

Sorenson orders the baboon destroyed, but Sam injects him with the wrong chemical and simply sedates him. Then thanks to further bad luck, Sorenson's assistant Richard forgets to process the "dead" animal in the facility's incinerator, instead leaving him lying unrestrained on a table. As the four friends and their surprisingly cool boss begin their [=LARPing=] adventure, none of them are aware that the sedative is beginning to wear off, and Shakma is starting to awaken...

Sam and his girlfriend Tracy both work as lab technicians at a highrise office building housing a medical research facility, for scientist Professor Sorenson. In particular, it's Sam's job to look after the animals used in Sorenson's work, and he has a particularly fondness for a baboon named Shakma.

Sorenson orders the baboon destroyed, but Sam injects him with the wrong chemical and simply deates him. Then thanks to further bad luck, Sorenson's assistant Richard forgets to process the "dead" animal in the facility's incinerator, instead leaving him lying unrestrained on a table. As the four friends and their surprisingly cool boss begin their LARPing adventure, none of them are aware that the sedative is beginning to wear off, and Shakma is starting to awaken...

A 1990 horror film involving a killer baboon.

A group of nerdy medical researchers decide to stay overnight at their research facility and have a {{LARP}} session. Using walkie talkies, they communicate with this professor, acting as the GameMaster and go about the lab collecting artefacts and spells from the different rooms, designated as caves, forests, etc. Unfortunately for them, Shakma, a baboon they have been experimenting on to see if they can control aggression, is on the loose and hunting them down.

** This may be due to the fact he was quite affectionate with [[spoiler:Sam]] before the experiment.

-->-- [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2tnp4QCKtk The trailer]]

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler: maybe even Sam dies in the end leaving only one minor character's girlfriend alive, who drives off in the middle of the movie.]]

* MurderByCremation: Sam tricks Shakma into leaping into the specimen disposal crematory and torches the baboon.

A 1990 horror film involving a killer baboon. A group of nerdy medical researchers decide to stay overnight at their research facility and have a {{LARP}} session. Using walkie talkies, they communicate with this professor, acting as the GameMaster and go about the lab collecting artefacts and spells from the different rooms, designated as caves, forests, etc. Unfortunately for them, Shakma, a baboon they have been experimenting on to see if they can control aggression, is on the loose and hunting them down.

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A 1990 horror film involving a killer baboon. A group of nerdy medical researchers decide to stay overnight at their research facility and have a {{LARP}} session. Using walkie talkies, they communicate with this professor, acting as the GameMaster and go about the lab collecting artefacts and spells from the different rooms, designated as caves, forests, etc. Unfortunately for them, Shakma, a baboon they have been experimenting on to see if they can control aggression, is on the loose and hunting them down.

* CastingGag: Hmmmm, Roddy McDowall in a film where mutated apes hunt and kill humans. [[PlanetOfTheApes Where have I heard that before?]].

* ManiacMonkeys: The titular primate is a genetically altered baboon with a murderous attitude.