Hal finally goes in after Petey and has a stand-off with his twin brother, who reveals he found out about Hal’s desire for the monkey to kill him after they threw the toy down the well.

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Warning: Some SPOILERS lie ahead for The Monkey! While the film leaves a lot up to the imagination, Oz Perkins has a pretty specific idea of the toy's origins in The Monkey. Written and directed ...

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 ...

"The Monkey" is about a cursed wind-up monkey toy that causes someone to die whenever it's played. The movie from filmmaker Osgood Perkins is based on a Stephen King story of the same name.

By comparison, his follow-up The Monkey opts for no-frills realism: it is about a toy monkey that causes hideous deaths. One biff on the snare drum from this grinning primate, and hapless ...