Blue Monkey (film)

Blue Monkey
Directed byWilliam Fruet
Written byGeorge Goldsmith
Chris Kosulek (uncredited)
Produced byMartin Walters
executive
Sandy Howard
StarringSteve Railsback
Gwynyth Walsh
Don Lake
Sandy Webster
Helen Slayton-Hughes
CinematographyBrenton Spencer
Edited byMichael Fruet
Music byPatrick Coleman
Paul Novotny
Distributed byInternational Spectrafilm
Release date
  • 25 September 1987 (1987-09-25) (United States)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish
Budget$3 million Canadian[1]

Blue Monkey is a 1987 Canadian horror film directed by William Fruet and starring Steve Railsback, Gwynyth Walsh, Susan Anspach, Don Lake, Sandy Webster, Helen Slayton-Hughes, and John Vernon. The film centers on a group of doctors trapped in a quarantined hospital as a giant insect-like creature begins to spread a deadly infection. The film was released on VHS by March 31, 1988. It received mostly negative reviews upon its release. It was released in some foreign markets as "Insect".

  1. ^ Borseti, Francesco (2016). It Cam from the 80s!: Interviews with 124 Cult Filmmakers. McFarland. pp. 20–39. ISBN 9781476666044.