Blue Monkey (1987) on Netflix
A handyman pricked by a greenhouse plant is rushed to Hill Valley Hospital, where Dr. Rachel Carson finds a wormlike parasite inside him. Jim Bishop joins her as the infection spreads.
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- IMDb4.9/101,815 votes
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Plot summary
Marwella Harbison keeps a strange plant in her greenhouse, a specimen from a volcanic island newly formed off Micronesia that began drooping overnight for no reason she can name. Handyman Fred Adams pricks a finger on it, though it has no thorns, and collapses beside his truck. At Hill Valley Hospital, Dr. Rachel Carson and Dr. Judith Glass find gangrene already at the wound. Detective Jim Bishop brings in his partner, shot at close range during a stakeout. Fred convulses and vomits an insect pupa, which the staff seal in a bell jar in the hospital lab. Rachel orders checkups for everyone, including Jim, hospital director Roger Levering refuses a quarantine, and entomologist Elliot Jacobs is called in to identify the specimen.
Cast
- Helen Hughesas Marwella Harbison
- Sandy Websteras Fred Adams
- Ivan E. Rothas The Creature
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Blue Monkey (1987)
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- Blue Monkey was originally titled Green Monkey, but the title was changed because of a theory at the time that AIDS had been started by infected African green monkeys.
