Primate (2026)

A man crouches at the edge of an outdoor animal enclosure on a windswept Hawaiian property. He is a veterinarian named Doug Lambert. He steps inside to examine the resident chimpanzee, Ben, and turns away long enough to reach for a syringe. When he looks back, the animal is gone. Lambert calls, and then sees Ben pressed into a shadowed corner. He coaxes the ape with a stuffed teddy bear. Instead of calming, Ben lunges; he hauls Lambert into the pen and tears the vet's face from his skull. Blood and fur scatter across the concrete as Ben stands amid the ruined body.

A day and a half earlier, Lucy Lambert returns to the same island from college, arriving at the airport with her close friend Kate and Kate's younger brother, Nick. Lucy has been distant since the recent death of her mother, a linguist who taught the family's chimp to use a custom soundboard on a tablet, and that absence has driven a wedge between Lucy and her teenage sister Erin. Lucy has not been home much, and when Kate reveals she invited another companion--Hannah, a woman Lucy has mixed feelings about--the awkwardness sharpens. At the gate they meet two other students, Brad and Drew, who flirt with Hannah and press their numbers into her hand.

They drive to the cliffside house that Lucy shares with Erin and their father, Adam, a deaf best-selling novelist who communicates by American Sign Language and, when necessary, through a sign language interpreter at public events. The family's primate, Ben, greets them in an enclosed run built into the property. He is visibly affectionate, using the tablet to play preprogrammed phrases and responding to touch. Lucy presents him with a new teddy bear, which delights him, and she uses the gift to try to rebuild the warmth between herself and Erin. Nick's presence complicates matters: Lucy harbors a crush on him, and she watches him trade glances with Hannah.

That night, while the others lounge by the infinity pool that faces the ocean, Ben begins to behave oddly. He trembles and salivates; he breathes with difficulty. Adam finds the chimp with a swollen bite on his hand and realizes a mongoose has bitten Ben. Adam packs the dead mongoose into a specimen jar and arranges for laboratory testing, intending to drop it off before leaving for a book signing with his interpreter. He calls an acquaintance, the vet Doug Lambert, and asks him to come out to examine Ben while he is at the event.

Ben's agitation grows as the island darkens. He presses against fencing, he screeches at noises beyond the property, and his eyes go glassy. Late, Lambert arrives and walks down the path to the chimp's enclosure. He opens the gate and steps inside, bending over Ben to inspect the wound. When Lambert turns to reach for a tool, the chimp vanishes. Ben springs from behind a shelter and seizes the man. He drags Lambert into the pen, rips at him, and removes half of his face with animal ferocity. Lambert makes sounds that die quickly; his body slumps. Ben escapes through the open gate and moves off the property.

In the house, Kate wakes in the middle of the night and finds Ben gone from his usual spot. She rounds the corner and spots the chimp moving along the veranda. She calls out and goes after him; Ben follows, but when she retreats inside, he slams the door and traps her. Lucy, asleep upstairs, wakes to Kate's shout. She pads downstairs and picks up Ben's teddy bear, which is stained with blood. She hears distant screeching and Hannah's sudden scream. The group rushes outside to the pool area and discovers Ben at the water's edge, drooling and breathing hard. He moves toward Hannah and grabs her hand; at first his grip feels almost protective, but he begins to twist it. The sound of snapping bone splits the night. Adam, who had been on his way back from the book signing when he receives a text from the lab confirming that the mongoose was positive for rabies, blows a whistle--his trained command for Ben. The chimp withdraws, but the bite has already infected him.

People scramble. Erin tries to help, but Ben turns on her and clamps down on her thigh, tearing flesh. The group flees into the pool, because Ben, reacting to water and an instinctive aversion, will not follow them in. Nick and Lucy attempt to restrain the chimp with a rope looped around a post. Ben chews through the rope and snaps out at them; he knocks Nick off balance and, in a swing of brute force, hurls him over the cliff-edge. Nick sails down onto jagged rocks and his skull smashes against stone; his body is broken and lifeless at the base of the cliff.

Panic intensifies as Lucy tries to reach for help. She moves stealthily from the water toward the house to grab a phone, but Ben's attention snaps back when she accidentally switches on the television. He surges toward her and pins her against the wall, using the tablet to tap phrases that echo his trainer's language--one of them the warped, two-word message "Lucy bad." Kate intervenes and is caught in Ben's renewed fury; he finds a boulder and crushes her skull against a concrete threshold. She slumps, dead, on the tiled floor.

Minutes later, Brad and Drew, who had split up to retrieve their sweep of the property after the group's earlier flirtation, appear at the house. They search the rooms, intoxicated and oblivious to the danger. Drew wanders into Lucy's bedroom, where Ben ambushes him. The primate rips into Drew's jaw and face, tearing the lower half of his mouth away; Drew bleeds out on the carpet and dies. Brad finds Lucy, Erin and Hannah by the pool and calls out to them, but Ben hears the call and spins. He snatches a long-handled shovel from a rack and wrests it free. He uses the shovel as a club and bludgeons Brad repeatedly until the man's skull caves in and he goes still.

Hannah tries to flee in a car to summon help. In the darkness, she grabs a pair of keys from a nearby table and jumps into a vehicle that is not hers. She dials 911 and whispers into the phone, begging the operator to send police to the cliff house. Her voice is shaky as she hides in the driver's seat. Ben, tracking the scent of her keys, runs to the wrong car, punches through the window with a savage force, climbs inside and mauls her. Hannah's body is crushed into the seat; blood smears the upholstery. The 911 operator traces the call but does not reach the vehicle in time.

Adam, having learned from the laboratory that the mongoose carried rabies and alarmed by the lack of response to his calls, races home. He finds a scene of destruction: the sliding doors splattered, the pool area strewn with clothes and drink cups, and his niece and daughters bloodied and shaken. Lucy attempts to straddle the line between caring for Erin's leg wound and drawing Ben's attention away from the others. She remembers the facial touches and phrases she taught Ben as a child; she tries to soothe him. At one point, when Ben bares the open, infected wound on his hand, Lucy, desperate, presses her finger into the crater of pus and blood. The chimp recoils, startled and hurt, and then flees in a burst of motion.

Adam, Lucy and Erin lead Ben through the house back to the veranda, boxing him out toward the balcony. Ben catches and claws into Erin's back as they pull him away. They corner the chimp by the balcony's railing where he rears up and nearly tears Lucy's jaw free. Adam blows the whistle, distracting Ben, and when the animal turns his head he strikes: he smashes an empty wine bottle on the chimp's skull, shatters it, and presses the jagged neck into Ben's chest. The glass punctures flesh and bone; Ben collapses to the flooring, his body heavy and still.

For a moment, silence replaces the chaos. Adam moves to embrace his daughter; they breathe hard, each gauging the other's injuries. The chimp, however, rises one last time with a sudden surge of animal strength. He lunges at Lucy and tackles her toward the balcony. Adam grasps Lucy to hold her, and in the violent pull a scramble ensues at the railing's edge. A battered wooden table--a balcony table splintered by the earlier struggle--tips. The momentum throws bodies against jagged wood. In the fall both Adam and Ben plunge toward the terrace below; a broken chair leg juts up from the shattered furniture and impales one of them through the torso. The impact is bloody and catastrophic. Adam's fingers release Lucy's shirt; he collapses, lifeless, on the shattered deck. The chimpine body, driven by the same momentum and the force of the fall, is pierced by the splintered furniture as well and goes rigid.

Emergency lights sweep the driveway as police and paramedics, tracing Hannah's 911 ping and following radio chatter, arrive in the pre-dawn. Medics rush to tend Erin's wounds and load her onto a stretcher; she is groaning but alive and is transported to the hospital. Officers push through the yard and approach the house with caution. They discover the tablet Ben used to vocalize preprogrammed phrases. When an officer picks it up and inadvertently triggers the device, a recorded voice plays: the broken phrase Lucy heard earlier, "Lucy bad." The sound hangs in the humid air as officers collect evidence.

Ambulance sirens wail off into the morning. The bodies--the shattered vet with his face torn away, Nick smashed on the rocks below, Kate with a crushed skull, Drew without a jaw, Brad bludgeoned, Hannah mangled in a car seat, Adam and the chimp both pierced on splintered furniture--lie scattered across the property. Lucy sits huddled on the grass with Erin, blood on her hands and tears on her face, surrounded by officers who take statements. She stares at the tablet and its mute screen, the white teddy bear clutched uselessly beside her, as medics wheel Erin past into the ambulance. The camera pulls back from the scene of carnage and emergency response, leaving Lucy under the harsh lights while investigators bag evidence and take photographs. The last audible phrase from Ben's device--"Lucy bad"--plays in an evidence locker as detectives log the item, closing a bloody, brief chapter that leaves the family changed and the house forever marked by what happened on that Hawaiian night.

In the end of Primate, Lucy and her younger sister Erin are the only ones who survive the night. Ben, the rabid chimpanzee who turned on the family, is finally killed after a prolonged, brutal confrontation in and around the house, and the film closes on the two sisters alive but traumatized, surrounded by the aftermath of Ben's rampage.

Now, in an expanded, step‑by‑step narrative:

Night has fallen fully over the isolated Hawaiian property. Inside and around the modern, glass‑heavy house, the lights are dim, many of them shattered or flickering. Blood is smeared on walls, floors, and furniture; broken glass crunches underfoot. The surviving characters are few--Lucy, Erin, and, for a time near the end, at most one other friend still clinging to life before the final confrontation leaves only the sisters. Ben, the chimp who has been stalking them all night, is no longer the calm, affectionate animal of the opening scenes: his fur is matted with blood, his mouth hangs open with ragged, frothing breaths, and he moves with quick, jerking, unpredictable surges of speed.

SCENE 1 – REGROUPING IN THE HOUSE

After a series of earlier attacks that have picked off their friends one by one, Lucy and Erin find themselves back inside the main house. They are exhausted, dirty, and still streaked with dried blood that is not always their own. Both move carefully, whispering, aware that Ben can appear from any dark corner or shattered doorway.

Lucy, older and more responsible, takes the lead. She checks quickly for anything they can use as a weapon: pieces of broken wood, kitchen knives, heavy objects. Erin follows her, still in shock, her movements slower, eyes wide and darting around. The house that used to be a family refuge now feels like a trap; every hallway ends in a glass wall or a locked door that has already failed to keep the chimp out.

They step through the open-plan living room. The remains of earlier scenes are everywhere: overturned chairs, smashed glass doors that once led to the pool, a coffee table half-splintered from someone being thrown onto it, a bloody handprint smeared along the edge of a wall as one earlier victim tried to crawl away. The pool outside glows faintly with underwater lights, its surface disturbed by debris--a floating cushion, an empty bottle, and faint streaks of red where previous attempts to hide there have gone wrong.

Lucy pauses, listening. The house is mostly silent except for the hum of distant electronics and the occasional drip of water or blood. Erin breathes shallowly behind her. Lucy's main goal now, and her only real thought, is getting Erin out alive. That single motivation keeps her focused.

SCENE 2 – BEN REAPPEARS

Lucy guides Erin toward what she thinks might be the safest path out--toward one of the less-damaged exits, where they might make a run for the driveway or surrounding foliage. They move past the kitchen. Corrupted food is scattered on the counters and floor, cabinet doors hang open. A shattered glass door offers a jagged exit to the outside.

Just as they approach that opening, there is a sudden, heavy thump from somewhere deeper in the house. Both sisters stop. Another sound follows: the dragging scrape of something hard across the floor, then a guttural, animal huffing noise. Erin's eyes fill with fresh fear. Lucy tightens her grip on the makeshift weapon she carries.

Ben steps into view at the far end of the room, coming from a corridor that leads to the bedrooms. His silhouette appears first: hunched, powerful shoulders, long arms that nearly touch the floor, his body smeared in dark stains. When he enters the dim light, the extent of the damage to him is visible: he bears cuts and bruises from earlier attempts to fight him off, and his fur is clumped with dried blood. His eyes are wide, glassy, and frantic with rabies. His mouth hangs open, revealing blood‑coated teeth, strands of saliva laced with foam.

Ben moves low and purposeful, head tilting as he takes in the two girls. He recognizes them on some level--the ones he grew up around, the human "family" he used to trust--but the infection has stripped away restraint. He gives a sharp, almost barking screech, the sound tearing through the quiet house.

SCENE 3 – THE INITIAL CHASE

Lucy reacts instantly, grabbing Erin's wrist and pulling her sideways, away from the broken glass door that now feels too exposed. The sisters run the opposite direction, deeper into the house, trying to use its layout to break line of sight. Ben charges after them. His hands slap the floor with heavy, rhythmic impacts as he bounds forward on all fours, then occasionally on two legs when he gains speed.

They sprint down a hallway lined with family photos, many of them knocked crooked or shattered. Behind them, Ben's screeches echo closer. Lucy turns sharply into another room--one they hope can buy them time. This might be a bedroom or an office, now in disarray. The bed is partially overturned or shoved, the desk cluttered and broken. Lucy slams the door behind them and twists the lock with shaking hands.

Erin stands in the middle of the room, staring at the door, breathing fast. Lucy forces herself to scan quickly. She spots something heavy--a piece of furniture, a dresser, or a bookshelf--and immediately moves to push it against the door as a barricade. Erin snaps out of her daze and helps, shoulders straining, feet sliding a bit on the floor as they shove the object into place.

Almost immediately, Ben hits the other side of the door. The impact is loud and violent. The door rattles in its frame, the dresser jumps slightly with each slam. Ben pounds again and again, his weight and strength obvious. The wood begins to crack at the hinges. The thin, muffled growls and panting can be heard clearly through the barrier.

SCENE 4 – TRAPPED, THEN FORCED OUT

Inside the room, Lucy's mind races. The barricade will not hold long. She looks around and sees a window--possibly large, maybe looking out over the yard, or a smaller one that still offers an exit. The glass might be intact or already fractured from earlier attacks. Either way, it is their only chance.

Lucy runs to the window, checks if it can open. If it is stuck, she uses whatever she's holding--perhaps a lamp, a piece of debris, or a previously grabbed blunt object--to smash it the rest of the way. Glass breaks outward, scattering onto whatever is outside--grass, patio, or a lower ledge. The night air floods in.

Behind them, the door's frame gives a final, tearing crack. Ben's arm punches through a newly formed gap, fingers splayed, nails dirty, reaching. His hand grabs blindly at the edge of the dresser, pulling it with surprising strength. The sisters hear the dresser scraping forward.

Lucy urges Erin toward the window. Erin hesitates for a fraction of a second, staring at the jagged glass. Lucy pushes her forward, helping her climb out. Erin disappears through the frame first, dropping or scrambling down to the ground outside. Lucy stays a moment longer, looking back at the door.

Ben forces the dresser away enough to reveal more of the opening. His face appears, eyes wild, teeth bared. He screeches again, flecks of saliva flying onto the wood. Lucy steps back to the window, then climbs out herself, cutting herself slightly on the remaining glass but not stopping.

SCENE 5 – OUTSIDE: FINAL STAND LOCATION

Both sisters are now outside the house, on the ground--either in a yard, near the pool area, or on a ledge connected to a path that circles the building. The night is still; the only sounds are their breathing and the distant ocean or wind. Parts of the exterior are lit by what remains of the landscape lighting and light spilling from broken windows.

Lucy helps Erin to her feet. Their options are limited: the property is set on a secluded location, and earlier events have already shown that reaching outside help quickly is nearly impossible. They can either run into the dark, rough terrain surrounding the house, or they can use the structure itself to try to trap or kill Ben.

Lucy, prioritizing the immediate danger, decides to deal with Ben here rather than flee blindly into the dark with him at their backs. She looks quickly around for anything on the ground they can use. There might be a fallen piece of construction material, a length of metal, a heavy garden tool, or a large rock. She picks up the most practical and deadly option in reach.

Erin, shaking, follows her lead. She either finds her own smaller object or stays close to Lucy, depending on how injured or exhausted she is by this point. Both stand with their backs partially to a wall or railing, trying to ensure Ben can only approach from certain directions.

Inside the house, they can hear Ben moving again, running along a hallway, then the sound of another window shattering or a door being forced open. He is not far behind.

SCENE 6 – BEN EMERGES FOR THE LAST TIME

Ben finally appears again through another opening: perhaps a sliding glass door now shattered, or another window that he bursts through, scattering glass and debris. He lands outside, closer to them, his body tense and ready. His breathing is loud and ragged, his chest rising and falling heavily. He fixes on the sisters in the dark.

There is a moment where the three of them are still. Lucy stares at Ben, remembering him as the gentle companion from her childhood, seeing that memory clash with the bloody figure before her. Erin presses closer to Lucy's side.

Then Ben charges.

He moves explosively, knuckles and bare feet thudding against the ground, closing the distance in seconds. Lucy shouts something short and practical to Erin--either to run a certain way or stay behind her. As Ben reaches them, Lucy swings her weapon with all the strength she has. The blow lands--on his head, shoulder, or side--enough to stagger him but not stop him completely.

Ben recoils with a pained screech, then lashes out with one arm, his hand striking Lucy or knocking her weapon aside. She stumbles but does not fall. Erin cries out. Ben turns partially toward the nearer, weaker target--Erin--and lunges.

Lucy recovers quickly and strikes again, this time with more precision and desperation. The impact is heavier. The weapon connects with a vulnerable point--his skull, neck, or another area that can cause serious harm. Ben staggers more violently, his limbs flailing as his sense of balance falters.

SCENE 7 – PROLONGED STRUGGLE AND KILL

The fight does not end with one blow. Ben rallies, driven by animal fury. He swipes again, maybe catching Lucy and knocking her down, or pushing Erin to the ground. For a brief, chaotic moment, bodies roll and scramble on the rough exterior surface. Hands, feet, and the weapon all move in a blur.

Lucy, driven entirely by survival and the need to protect her sister, forces herself back up. She regains grip on the weapon or grabs another nearby heavy object if the first is lost. Ben looms over Erin for an instant, reaching for her, mouth open.

Lucy comes in from the side or behind and strikes Ben again and again. Each impact is distinct and physical: the sound of metal or wood meeting bone and flesh, the dull thud, Ben's cries growing weaker and more fractured. On one final swing, the blow is decisive. Ben collapses, his body hitting the ground heavily.

He twitches for a few seconds, breath rasping out in uneven bursts. The froth at his mouth thickens and then slows. His movements grow smaller, then stop entirely. His eyes, once frantic, turn glassy and unfocused, staring at nothing.

Ben is dead.

SCENE 8 – IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH

Silence follows, heavy and sudden. Lucy stands over Ben's body, chest heaving, arms shaking from exertion and adrenaline. The weapon slips from her hand or drops heavily at her side. Erin lies nearby, then slowly pushes herself up, checking herself for injuries. She looks at Ben's still form, then at Lucy.

The two sisters move toward each other. Erin reaches out, and Lucy pulls her into a brief, desperate embrace. They do not speak much, if at all; their words, if any, are short, hoarse, and practical--checking that the other is alive, asking if the other is hurt.

Around them, the property is quiet again. The sounds of Ben's rampage are gone. The house, still partly lit, stands like a wrecked shell--windows broken, furniture overturned, streaks of blood marking the route of the night's violence. The pool water, visible nearby, reflects the remaining lights, its surface marred by floating debris and proof of earlier attacks.

SCENE 9 – FATES OF THE MAIN CHARACTERS AT THE END

Lucy is alive. By the time the ending closes, she has survived multiple attacks, led much of the improvised strategy to stay alive, and personally delivered the blows that kill Ben. Physically, she is wounded, bruised, and exhausted. Emotionally, she is in shock, but she remains functional enough to move and help Erin. Her immediate fate is survival: she is left alive at the end of the story.

Erin is alive. Despite suffering through the same night of terror and being in direct danger during the final confrontation, she survives Ben's last attack. She is shaken, traumatized, and still very dependent on Lucy for guidance and protection in the final scenes, but she is not killed or mortally wounded. Her fate at the end is survival alongside her sister.

Kate, Lucy's best friend, does not survive to see the ending. Earlier in the film, she is killed by Ben during one of his brutal attacks in or around the house and pool; by the time of the final confrontation, she is already dead.

Hannah, the frenemy, also dies before the ending. She is killed during one of Ben's assaults, which happens in one of the earlier or mid‑film sequences inside or near the house. She is not present or alive during the final stand.

Nick, Lucy's crush and childhood friend, likewise does not survive to the end. He is killed by Ben in the course of the night's events, his death occurring before the final battle between the sisters and the chimp.

Adam, Lucy and Erin's deaf father, is away from the house on his book tour during much of the chaos, having left the girls alone at the home. He is not an active participant in the final scenes and is not physically present in the ending. His direct fate is survival off‑screen, but in terms of the ending sequence, he does not appear in person.

Ben, the chimpanzee who began as a friendly family pet and test subject and then turned into the rabid killer, is definitively killed in the final confrontation outside the house. His body lies motionless at the end, his threat fully ended.

SCENE 10 – FINAL IMAGE

The last moments focus on the immediate aftermath rather than a long epilogue. Lucy and Erin remain near the house, surrounded by destruction and the bodies of friends and family's former companion. They are alive, but their expressions show shock and numbness. The night is quiet again, the violent sounds replaced by a heavy silence.

The movie closes on the two sisters as survivors of the night's ordeal, with Ben's dead body nearby and the ruined home around them, making clear who lived and who died when the violence finally stopped.

Yes. Several major and minor characters die in Primate, almost all as a direct result of Ben's rabid rampage. Below is a character-by-character breakdown of who dies and the circumstances of each death, in story order.

Note: Exact shot-by-shot staging varies slightly across reviews, but the following tracks the generally agreed sequence and methods of death.

1) The mongoose
Why/when: Early in the film, before the vacation fully "starts," a rabid mongoose slips into Ben's enclosure at Lucy's family home in Hawaii. It attacks Ben inside the cage.
How: Ben kills the animal with his bare hands and teeth in a frenzied struggle, leaving its carcass torn and bloodied. His arm is badly bitten in the process; the wound is the source of his rabies infection. The dead mongoose is later shoved into a plastic bag and briefly shown to Lucy as a gross curiosity, without anyone understanding the danger.

2) The first outside staffer (groundskeeper/handyman)
Why/when: Not long after Ben begins showing agitated, erratic behavior, a lone staff member checks on the property and on Ben's enclosure. He is the first full-on human victim once the infection has taken complete hold.
How: Ben ambushes him in or near the enclosure. The chimp slams into him with full force, knocking him down, then mauls his face and upper body. His face is clawed and partly torn open, and the man is beaten until he stops moving. His mangled corpse is later glimpsed or stumbled upon by the others, confirming that Ben has "crossed a line" from pet to pure predator.

3) Nick
Why/when: After the initial chaos in the house and around the pool, Lucy's crush Nick ends up separated from at least some of the group during a desperate attempt to either get to a vehicle or to distract Ben away from the others. He keeps trying to play rescuer, acting on a mix of infatuation with Lucy and a macho need to prove he can protect everyone.
How: Ben intercepts him outside, overpowering him with a speed and strength that Nick never really anticipates. Nick is beaten down--punches, kicks, and slams--then finished with a vicious, prolonged mauling. At least one account describes his head or skull being smashed against the ground or nearby rockwork until it caves in. He dies quickly compared with some of the later, more sadistic kills, but his death marks the point where the group realizes there may be no straightforward "hero" rescue.

4) Hannah
Why/when: Hannah, the "frenemy" whose relationship with Lucy is already tense, spends much of the middle stretch trapped with the other survivors around or in the swimming pool. At one point she attempts a run for safety--either to make it to the house, a phone, or higher ground--after they believe Ben has been driven off or momentarily distracted. Her motives are complicated: self-preservation, simmering resentment toward Lucy, and the desperate hope that if she moves first, she might survive while someone else keeps Ben occupied.
How: Her bid for escape becomes one of the film's showcase kills. Ben catches her at the edge of the property, near a rocky drop. He first batters her--open‑hand smacks and pounding blows that emphasize his sheer physical dominance--then physically hurls her off a cliff face. We follow her screaming fall until her head slams against the rocks below with a sickening crunch. The camera lingers on her broken body, emphasizing both the suddenness and cruelty of Ben's strength.

5) Second staffer / additional adult victim
Why/when: As the situation deteriorates, a second adult--either another house employee, a security/maintenance person, or a neighbor alerted by noise or by earlier calls for help--comes onto the property. This character's function is largely to offer a vehicle or a way out, which gives the remaining group a flicker of hope.
How: Ben ambushes him almost as soon as he enters the danger zone. The attack is fast and brutal: Ben rushes him, knocks him down, and then pounds and claws him to death. The scene underlines the hopelessness of outside help and keeps the survivors realistically cut off. His body is left savaged, a fresh warning for anyone else who might try to intervene.

6) Jaw‑rip victim (house guest)
Why/when: During the height of the siege inside the home, when the power of the environment has fully shifted to Ben and the last survivors are cowering, one of the remaining "secondary" house guests (a male friend, not one of the core three girls) tries to block Ben's access or shield someone else. He either stands between Ben and Lucy/Hannah/Kate or tries to attack Ben with a piece of furniture or improvised weapon.
How: Ben pins him and executes the film's most notorious kill. He clamps onto the lower half of the man's face and, with a series of wrenching tugs, tears the victim's lower jaw completely off. The jaw doesn't kill him instantly: he is left still alive, gurgling, tongue flapping uselessly where his mandible used to be, forced to watch as Ben toys with or gnaws on the exposed bone and tissue. He finally bleeds out, his grotesque, lingering suffering emphasizing how far Ben has sunk into pure animal sadism under the rabies.

7) Scalp‑rip victim (female guest)
Why/when: Another of the girls--distinct from Lucy, Kate, and Erin--is cornered while the survivors are cycling in and out of the pool area, trying to use the water and the surrounding architecture as both barrier and trap. In a panicked scramble to escape through a doorway or patio exit, she slips from the others' grasp and ends up alone with Ben.
How: Ben seizes her by the hair, yanking her backward so violently that a large chunk of her scalp peels away. Blood sheets down her face and neck. She screams and staggers, still alive but half‑scalped, stumbling toward what she thinks is safety. Before she can reach anyone, Ben finishes her off in a separate, less lingering kill--either with more blows to the head or another flurry of bites that finally stills her. The film makes a grim point of letting her live just long enough to feel the full horror.

8) Additional "pool sequence" casualties
Why/when: A substantial portion of the movie centers on the group trapped in or around the pool, taking turns leaving the water to test escape routes, look for weapons, or distract Ben. Each foray is a calculated risk, driven by fear of drowning, exhaustion from treading water, and the knowledge that staying put too long will get them all killed once Ben figures out how to reach them.
How: Several unnamed or lightly sketched friends die here. Ben picks off those who leave the pool at the wrong moment. Some are clubbed or punched to death; at least one is cornered and has their head crushed repeatedly against stone or tile. The deaths are swift but messy, with the camera emphasizing broken limbs, caved‑in skulls, and splashes of blood in the pool water. Emotionally, these kills serve to erode any illusion that careful planning will save everyone--the "smart" moves get punished as brutally as the impulsive ones.

9) Adam (the father)
Why/when: Adam, Lucy and Erin's deaf father, is away on a book tour for most of the night. He returns to the property after the massacre is already underway, responding either to missed calls or simply coming home on schedule. His return initially feels like salvation: an adult with authority, a car, perhaps a gun, someone who knows Ben's history and might calm him. For Lucy and Erin, this is also their chance to stop feeling like helpless kids.
How: Ben attacks him almost as soon as he steps into the hot zone. Adam, still thinking of Ben as the family's once‑docile companion, tries to approach him without full defensive aggression. That hesitation kills him. Ben closes the distance, battering Adam with shocking ferocity. Depending on the account, Adam is either beaten to death--his head and chest pulped under repeated blows--or has his throat torn open in a flurry of bites while his daughters watch, horrified and powerless. His death is one of the most emotionally charged, because it yanks away the last "parental" buffer between the girls and the violence.

10) Ben (the chimpanzee)
Why/when: After nearly everyone else has been killed, the climax pits Ben against the final survivors--Lucy, Kate, and Erin--in a last attempt to end the nightmare. By this point, any sentimental connection to Ben as a childhood pet is in open conflict with the reality of what he has done. Lucy in particular is torn between grief and the hard knowledge that allowing him to live means more deaths.
How: The girls set a desperate, improvised trap using whatever remains of the ruined house and pool area. Ben is lured into a confined space--often described as a corner of the house or near a shattered window/door--where he loses his mobility advantage. They attack together, turning the tables with tools and debris: rocks, broken furniture, and possibly a shovel or similar object. The final blow comes when Ben's skull is smashed in, the impact described with the same brutal detail the movie lavished on his own attacks. It is not a clean mercy killing; it is an ugly, fear‑charged execution driven by survival instinct and a last‑ditch need to reclaim control of their home.

Who survives
Lucy, Kate, and Erin make it out alive. Their survival is soaked in trauma: they are spattered with other people's blood, physically battered, and visibly in shock. The broken-heart necklaces that Lucy and Kate share become morbid symbols by the end--half a heart each, but now burdened with the memory of everyone they watched die.

In sum: yes, many characters die--most of Lucy's visiting friends, both adult men who try to help, Adam, and finally Ben himself--almost all through bludgeoning, mauling, tearing, or being thrown from heights by a rabid chimpanzee who once lived as their family pet.

The answer to whether Primate has a post-credits scene is conflicting across sources. According to ComingSoon.net, there is no post-credit scene at the end of Primate, though a song plays after the credits have fully rolled. However, RunPee reports that at the very end of the credits, the screen goes dark and in the background you hear a computerized voice from a cartoon, possibly from Dora the Explorer, though they note it's not worth waiting around for. Additionally, AfterCredits.com confirms there are extras after the credits but states there are no extras during the credits.

The most authoritative sources suggest that while there is technically something that plays after the credits conclude, it is not a traditional post-credits scene in the sense of narrative content or sequel setup. Rather, it appears to be a brief audio element--either a song or a voice clip--that plays once the credits have fully finished rolling.

Primate (2026) is not family‑friendly; it is a violent horror film clearly aimed at adults and older teens, not children.

Brief, non‑spoiler list of potentially upsetting elements:

• Very strong, bloody violence involving a chimp attacking humans, with at least one very graphic facial mauling briefly shown.
• Frequent scenes of intense peril where young characters are stalked, cornered, and attacked, with screams, bone‑crunching sound effects, and visible injuries.
• Sustained terror: characters trapped in an isolated house and pool area, hiding, being hunted, and trying to escape.
• A beloved animal turning rabid and dangerous, which can be particularly distressing for animal‑loving or sensitive viewers.
• On‑screen blood, gore, and injury detail, even when some attacks happen partially off‑screen.
• Teen partying behavior including alcohol use and weed smoking.
• Moderate swearing by teens under extreme stress.
• Emotional themes involving a dead parent and a strained family still grieving, which may be upsetting to some children.