Primal Rage (film)
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James Justice
Josi W. Konski
Cheryl Arutt
Sarah Buxton
Bo Svenson
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| Directed by | Vittorio Rambaldi |
| Written by | Umberto Lenzi James Justice |
| Produced by | William J. Immermann Josi W. Konski |
| Starring | Patrick Lowe Cheryl Arutt Sarah Buxton Bo Svenson |
| Cinematography | Antonio Climati[1] |
| Edited by | John Rawson |
| Music by | Claudio Simonetti[1] |
Production company | El Pico S.A.[1] |
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Running time | 91 minutes |
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| Language | English |
Primal Rage is a 1988 science fiction horror film directed by Vittorio Rambaldi.
Frank Duffy, a reporter for a local newspaper in Miami, sneaks into a research laboratory that carries out experiments on animals. Bitten by a rabid monkey, the young man falls prey to an uncontrollable fury and spreads the infection in the nearby college, where the carefree Halloween party taking place there turns into a bloodbath.
Cast
- Patrick Lowe as Sam Nash
- Cheryl Arutt as Lauren Daly
- Sarah Buxton as Debbie
- Bo Svenson as Ethridge[1][2]
Production
The film was directed by Vittorio Rambaldi (in his directing debut), the son of Italian special effects artist Carlo Rambaldi.[3]
The film was written by Umberto Lenzi and James Justice. Lenzi would later recall that he was approached with two scripts, saying that "One was fucking awful and one wasn't bad." Lenzi "took the one [he] liked the most", "about a female scientist that has an accident in her lab and becomes genetically mutated, transforming into a tiger", and rewrote it, but by the time he arrived at the United States, he found that his backers wanted him to film the other script, which became Nightmare Beach (also known as Welcome to Spring Break). The script that Lenzi worked on, which he described as a homage to Cat People, was eventually further rewritten by Justice, and the final script that was shot was credited to "Harry Kirkpatrick", an alias Justice also used in Nightmare Beach, in which he also worked on.[4]
The film was shot in Florida.[2]
The film's poster art was made by Renato Casaro.[5]