An Unwelcome Visitor

A man is sleeping in his bed. A monkey -- actually, a man in a monkey costume -- enters, wakes him up and attacks the man.

Which raises a multitude of questions mostly involving in why the monkey is doing this, or if that is, indeed, supposed to be a monkey, and not a man in a monkey costume, as it so clearly is. Is it part of some longer story, like the early Sherlock Holmes novels, filled with sinister lascars, snakes hiding in bed pulls, and a missing fortune in gems?

Unfortunately, there seems to be no way of telling what, if any of that is actually the case. I suspect it was simply meant to be an imitation of one of Melies' early "Haunted Inn" shorts. And blurry, too.