Dorothy Mann

Dorothy Mann is the mother of Allan Mann and the secondary villain of the horror movie Monkey Shines.

About
After her Son Allan is paralyzed from the neck down, Dorothy is shown hosting a party for him to start his new life. She has hired a live in nurse named Maryanne Hodge to look after them. Later, she, Allan and Maryanne watch home movies of Allan's childhood. She mentions the neighbors Allan liked and that they moved away because Dorothy worked in real estate and sold there house. However, while liking Allan and his father, Dorothy's late Husband, the neighbors actually moved to get away from her. Dorothy isn't seen until later, after Allan's failed suicide attempt, due to being unable to do anything and due to Maryanne actually being very uncaring to him and more focused on her stupid pet Budgie Bogey. When Dorothy meets with Dr. John Wiseman, the surgeon who saved Allan's life after his accident, She tells him that she intends to move in to Allan's house to help him. However, Wiseman tells not to as it would only make Allan's situation worse.

Dorothy appears later after Allan had been given a Helper Monkey named Ella, who is secretly being used as part of an experiment by his Scientist Friend Geoffrey Fisher. During this visit, Maryanne angrily accuses Allan and Ella of killing Bogey. While Allan denies having done so and believes that Ella was in her cage, his anger is brought out due to Ella's prescience and experiment, with Allan spitefully telling Maryanne he doesn't care and that the bird deserved to die, deeply upsetting Maryanne and horrifying Dorothy. It turns out the previous night that after Bogey attacked Allan, Ella escaped her cage, quietly snuck into Maryanne's room, discreetly opened Bogey's cage and murdered him in cold blood after taping into Allan's thoughts. That night while Dorothy bathes Allan, she tells him that Maryanne is quitting, having called last week and that she will be moving in as she has sold her home in Illinois and her Buisness to do so. Allan clearly doesn't want Dorothy there, but she is oblivious to his wish. While Dorothy isn't looking and due to his anger toward her, Allan sees his right hand move on its own. When he tells Dorothy, then angrily shouts at her asking if she saw it, she it didn't and it can't. Then she rudely tells Allan she doesn't like they way he's behaving.

Later in the film, she receives a phone call, learning that Wiseman and Allan's ex-girlfriend Linda Aikmen, who left him for being quadrapaglic while killed in a fire. It turns out upon seeing his right hand move on it's own, Allan and his new girlfriend Melanie Parker, a specialist in quadriplegia and helper monkeys, who helped trained Ella, visit another Surgeon Dr. Williams, who reveals that Wiseman is overconfident, causing him to sometimes miss things. Williams shows Allan that his quadriplegia wasn't caused by being hit by a truck, but by abut by a congenital problem with another one of his vertebrae, which the arrogant doctor Wiseman (Stanley Tucci) failed to notice in surgery. The doctor explains that this congenital problem could be fixed through spinal surgery, which would allow him to walk again, but since that kind of surgery was risky, he’d only do it if Alan could move any of his body parts voluntarily. Angry with Wiseman for his incompetence, Allan has call him with help from Ella to tell him over his blunder. When he learns that Wiseman is out of town and won't be back until Monday, Allan says he has to talk to him now and the receptionist begins to tell Allan the number of where Wiseman can be reached. However, upon hearing some of the number and saying the rest for himself, he realizes that Wiseman and Linda are in a relationship which fills him with complete rage. When Wiseman answers after having sex with Linda, Allan says nothing. When Wiseman hangs up he and Linda resume kissing. Allan's rage gets Ella through their telepathic bond and it results in her making her way to Linda's cabin and killing both Wiseman and Linda as they're having sex. Having seen this through Ella's eyes Allan believes it to be a bad dream, but when Dorothy begins to tell Allan what had happened, he quickly Realizes it happened. Allan explains to Melanie and Geoffrey about his uncontrollable rage and horrible thoughts and Tells Geoffrey to take Ella back to his lab.

After Allan Spends the weekend with Melanie, Allan meets with Doctor Williams again. He tells Allan that spinal surgery to allow him to move again is risky. Williams says he needs proof that Allan can make a voluntarily movement with one of his limbs, even if it's a finger or a toe. If Allan can make that Voluntary movement then Williams will agree to operate on him. When Allan returns home, Dorothy is angry at him as she didn't know where he was all weekend and tried to call him 12 times. Allan says he and Melanie decided not to Answer the phone. After Melanie Kisses Allan goodbye, She says hi to Dorothy and asks her how she is today, only for Dorothy to angrily glare at her in contempt. She doesn't even thank Melanie for Looking after Allan. Later, asks Dorothy if she heard from Geoffrey as he has Ella. Dorothy Tells Allan Geoffrey can keep Ella and Allan reveals he asked him to do so. Dorothy erroneously believes that Ella did something bad to Melanie and that she asked Allan to get rid of her. Dorothy then nastily says "You do anything she asks in a minute.", showing that she completely despises Melanie. Eventually, Ella gets out and goes back to Allan’s house. While Allan is being bathed by Dorothy and telling her about the possibility of being able to move on his own again and asking for support on that and his relationship with Melanie, Dorothy says in a displeased tone that it's fine with her. However, due to Ella's prescience, Allan's anger comes out again and he shouts at Dorothy. When he realizes Ella's there, he tries to tell Dorothy what's happening but Dorothy rudely tells him that if he can't stand having her there just to tell her and she'll go. When the phone rings, Dorothy goes to answer it and Allan calls to her that if it's Melanie to hell her that Ella's there and to come right away. However, Dorothy instead tells Melanie that Allan's in the bath tub and is going to bed and to call him tomorrow in the daytime, then hangs up. Ella, having grown to hate Dorothy, with the hate being mutual, had witnessed it. As Allan is put into bed, he apologizes to Dorothy and says that he's afraid and wants her to understand that she's in great danger. Dorothy on the verge of crying says she understands and was never willing to accept it, believing he's talking about How he prefers Melanie instead. When Allan tries to explain Dorothy interrupts yelling "Do you have ANY idea how much you made me cry?! "Do you have any idea worthless you made me feel?! How alone?!". After crying a bit she angrily shouts "I've given up EVERYTHING FOR YOU!", which Allan now unable to control his rage tells her off. She doesn't care about him or anybody else as she only cares about herself as her life is nothing but an empty greedy black hole and that she's been trying to suck him in for as long as he can remember. He then ends his rant by calling her a conniving, clinging blood sucking bitch, causing her to slap him out of an anger reflex. Momentarily out of Ella's Influence, Allan tries to apologize only for Dorothy to reveal her true nature causing her to deliberately slap him multiple times. Once she is finished, Allan is again under Ella's influence and Tells Dorothy that she deservers what ever she gets and then menacingly says that he hates her. When he hears Ella's growling he tries to warn Dorothy, but she's horrified at what she did and runs to the bathroom. Dorothy then takes a bath, still hurt over Allan's revelation of her. When he calls Dorothy to warn her of Ella's prescience, she intentionally ignores him. What Dorothy doesn't realize is that Ella has made her way into the bathroom and Allan can see from her point of view. Ella then hopes up to the sink and takes Dorothy's hair dryer, which is plugged into the wall. When Dorothy hears a noise, Ella pops angrily pops up and before Dorothy can react, Ella throws her plugged in hair dryer into the bath tub electrocuting her to death.

Aftermath
Dorothy's body is then found by Geoffrey, who feels completely guilty and tells Allan about his mother's death and the truth about Ella. Geoffrey ends being killed by Ella by being injected with the same poison he intended to use on her. When Melanie Comes to check on Allan, Ella trips her into unconscious and tries to light her on fire, but being too wet from a rain storm makes it impossible so Ella decides to poison her with another syringe that Geoffrey brought with him. As Ella attempts to inject Melanie, Allan is able to summon the strength to move his right arm and engage his tape player with romantic music that Ella likes, summoning her to cuddle close to him. When Ella is under Allan's head, Allan bites her in the neck and kills her by thrashing his head back and forth in a violent manner, snapping her neck before finally relinquishing his bite and throwing her corpse into his tape player. Later, Allan undergoes spinal surgery, with Williams taking charge. While resting after the operation, Allan has a nightmare that he flatlines and Ella leaps out of his back while Williams is making an incision. When Allan wakes up, Melanie reveals that the surgery was successful. Having regained his ability to move, Allan and Melanie leave the hospital together.

Personality
Dorothy was a selfish and manipulative woman as she was only looking after Allan for herself and not for him. She was also a complete hypocrite as she wanted to be the only one looking after Allan and nobody else, yet earlier in the she hired Maryanne.