Primal Rage. 1988.
A scientist at a university in Florida, doing research on dead brain tissue in Baboons creates a virus that gets unleashed.
Think Danny Boyle must have seen this film and it became the inspiration for 28 Days Later but with more gore that we love to see on screen, even though this has it's moments. Umberto Lenzi is credited to being one of the writers who probably thought the audience want to see people suffer at the hands of animals.
This was released when Halloween IV, They Live, Child's Play came out and probably fell under people's radar, 80s low budget cheese fest film so we get bad writing, bad acting same music and background score from other Italian movies and Bo Svenson playing a mad scientist. Ashamed to say this...but I enjoyed it.
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