Among the plethora of horror movies hitting theaters and streaming in February, one of the most exciting is Osgood Perkins' horror comedy, The Monkey. Following up the surprise hit that was 2024's ...

But “The Monkey,” which Perkins adapted from a 1980 short story by Stephen King, doesn’t build on the earlier film’s promise. On the contrary, it’s a ham-handed, lurchingly obvious mess ...

“Everybody dies, and that’s life.” This repeated line in Oz Perkins’ twisted “The Monkey” sums up its main theme of the inevitable brutality of life, something the filmmaker knows all too well. The ...

In theaters. Meet Injurious George. The supernatural villain of “The Monkey,” writer-director Osgood Perkins’ one-note followup to last year’s surprise horror hit “Longlegs,” is a toy ...

Warning: You may not be able to sleep after watching The Monkey, a new Stephen King horror movie opening in theaters this weekend. Especially if you’ve ever had a toy monkey at any point in your ...

However, when it came to adapting The Monkey, one critical element of the titular simian had to be changed for the big screen. Believe it or not, that change came about because of a family ...

The Monkey had to change toy from cymbals to a drum after Disney had trademark ownership due to Toy Story 3. The horror movie stars Theo James alongside Elijah Wood and other big names in the ...

Reveling in kills that are senseless, aggressive, and increasingly imaginative and nightmarish, The Monkey is not just a stomach-churning treat for horror fans. It also feels like a challenge ...

Following up Longlegs, Perkins shows he’s just as adept at excessive gore with his adaptation of Stephen King’s short story, The Monkey. Effectively, Perkins’ The Monkey will either work for ...

When twin brothers Hal and Bill discover their father's old monkey toy in the attic, a series of gruesome deaths starts occurring all around them.

I can only hope you don’t go out in one of the hyperviolent, showstopping ways that writer-director Osgood Perkins reserves for his characters in “The Monkey.” Death not only has a sick ...