Reception
Psychologist Richard Gartner reported in 1999 that Primal Fear was one of only two feature films of the late 1990s to feature male-male sex as a theme (the other film was the 1998 Danish drama The Celebration).
Primal Fear garnered positive reviews from critics, earning a 74% "Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes. According to Janet Maslin, the film has a "good deal of surface charm", but that the film is "pared down to a farfetched plot and paper-thin motives, the story relies on an overload of tangential subplots to keep it looking busy."
The film spent three weekends at the top of the U.S. box office.
Primal Fear inspired the 2002 Bollywood movie Deewangee.
Primal Fear also inspired the 2005 Tamil movie Anniyan.
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