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There are many animals associated with the world of darkness: bats, rats, black cats, hooting owls and slithering snakes are all horror film fixtures. But, consider the humble primate — humanity's clever cousin, benign enough to help out around the house, or entertain families under the big top. As friendly as Hollywood makes these animals seem, they have proven to be excellent villains. In anticipation of the Stephen King film The Monkey, here are ten of cinema's most terrifying simians.

Though King Kong is clearly the reigning champion of hominid horror, this collection of underrated evil apes, homicidal chimps, and human-primate hybrids will keep horror fans busy until The Monkey arrives on February 21. Readers can even use this list of films by the likes of Peter Jackson and George Romero to enjoy a monkey movie marathon while they wait for the latest Stephen King adaptation to hit the big screen.

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Long before Disney's recent trend of adapting its animated films to live-action began in 2015, The Jungle Book was one of the first movies to get the full treatment. Two years later, Disney would release another live-action version of one of its 1960s animated movies: 101 Dalmatians. Still, the company didn't go all out to produce more of the same, save for the follow-up (102 Dalmatians) in 2000. Although Dalmatians hasn't exactly...

This month’s installment of Deep Cuts Rising features a variety of horror movies, with some selections reflecting a specific day or event in September, and others chosen at random.

Regardless of how they came to be here, or what they’re about, these past movies can generally be considered overlooked, forgotten or unknown.

This month’s offerings feature killer baboons, deadly office drama, and more.

A Photograph (1977)

Image: Play for Today, Episode “A Photograph”

Directed by John Glenister.

BBC1’s historic anthology series Play for Today aired for fourteen years, and in that time, it produced a small number of tales that sit somewhere in the vicinity of horror. Episodes also run close to feature length, thus making them more like TV-movies. While there was low chance of finding anything straightforwardly horror in this series, which mainly focused on dramas, there is no denying the sinister quality of certain stories.

The late star’s executors are being taken to court for denying the rights for use of video footage and music in a film about fandom

Michael Jackson’s estate is being sued by the father of the deceased film producer Raju Patel, who alleges that he is being blocked from making a film about the late singer.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Sharad Chandra Patel claims that Jackson’s executors are denying him access to music rights and video footage of the star, despite a contract signed by Jackson.

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Michael Jackson's estate is being sued by Sharad Chandra Patel, a producer for the tribute film Messages to Michael, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

In the suit, filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Patel alleges his deceased son and friend of Jackson, producer Raju Patel, had a film company with Jackson called Neverland Entertainment and that a 2002 contract details that all proceeds from their films were to be split equally.

Messages to Michael is said to have been a film Jackson wanted to make for his dedicated fans...

The father of a deceased producer and friend of Michael Jackson's has sued the entertainer's estate, claiming he's been denied the opportunity to make a tribute film to Jackson under a contract his son had with the late singer. Sharad Chandra Patel, whose son Raju Patel produced Bachelor Party, a 1994 version of The Jungle Book and The New Adventures of Pinocchio and was a Jackson friend, filed suit Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court to enforce a creditor's claim that was rejected by the Jackson estate. Patel alleges that his son, who died of cancer in 2005, had a

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