BLUE MONKEY
They should've called it "Mauve Hippopotamus"
There are no monkeys in this movie, much less any blue ones. Thus, the title is a bit of a mystery. This mystery seems alleviated somewhat when a little girl, wandering off with some friends, says "I bet we'll find a blue monkey!" Then it returns when one wonders just what the hell that kid's talking about.
Steve Railsback stars as a cop who takes his wounded partner to the hospital on the worst possible day - the day when the hospital gets in an elderly patient who got a nasty bug bite from a plant (!), who soon enough belches up a larva that eventually grows into a grasshopper the size of a giraffe. The military puts the whole hospital under quarantine, and everybody inside has to fend for themselves.
The cover of this movie - hilariously cheesy logo, nurses running screaming from a hokey monster and all wearing nurse uniforms unbuttoned WAY down - led me to expect a fairly goofy film, and the first half hour or so only bolstered my expectations. Then it takes a turn for the (attempted) serious, when the military comes in and demonstrates that they really mean it when they say nobody's allowed to leave. Likewise, the action inside the hospital is treated more seriously, if not much more effectively.
I dunno; this could've been awful, and it could've been a lot of fun, but it just made no real impression on me at all. The creature is cool and icky when kept in the shadows, but when it starts stomping around and chasing after people, it becomes fairly ridiculous. Giant insects in the movies always flail their limbs around as if they were useless except for knocking stuff over. Sure enough, that's the big problem with this guy.
The climax is fairly predictable as well; why ELSE do you think they showed you a scene where some doctors are working with an experimental surgical laser?
Apparently, another title was Green Monkey. Perhaps the color confusion has something to do with the shade of turquoise the hospital interiors are painted. Considering that there aren't actually any monkeys involved, I guess it doesn't matter what color the monkey is, does it?
Directed by William Fruet, who works just about exclusively in Canadian television.