Shakma

A low-budget thriller with a made-for-television look that's developed a surprising cult following. A baboon — the titular Shakma — is subjected to a series of medical experiments that stimulate the most aggressive portions of its brain and is then euthenized...except that it's not. Doctor-in-training Sam (Christopher Atkins) gives Shakma the wrong drug and doesn't cremate the apparently dead animal because his instructor, Professor Sorenson (Roddy McDowell), wants to do an autopsy the following day. So the unfortunate creature awakens some time later, as Sam and his friends — computer geek Bradley (Tre Laughlin); fellow reidents Gary (Robb Morris) and...