Great Movie Apes: Ella from Monkey Shines

Rumor has it that this week the apes will rise. So in honor of our primate cousins and their varied achievements on film, Movieline will honor one great movie ape/monkey/chimp each day who embodies an admirable quality found in monkeykind. Today, we look to the fearsome potential in the primate race, as embodied by Ella in George Romero's 1988 horror pic Monkey Shines. Who is at fault when a monkey kills... for her master?

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