Paramount Pictures’ upcoming animal-attack horror movie Primate got its first public screening on Sept. 18 as the opening film of Fantastic Fest, Austin’s annual film festival dedicated to horror, extreme cinema, and genre movies. Primate is exactly the kind of movie Fantastic Fest was built for. It’s self-aware and just the slightest bit campy, but startlingly gory, and coming from a director, Johannes Roberts (47 Meters Down, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City) who committed to boundary-pushing violence.

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