Well, here comes another one. The menacing toy of “The Monkey” is right there in the title — more specifically, it’s a medium-sized circus monkey who, when wound up via a key in the back ...

The Monkey opens in theaters Friday, February 21. Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but horror… that right there’s a pretty great genre for exploring trauma. It’s a truism that Longlegs ...

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 ...

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 ...

As a child, Hal (Christian Convery) was terrorised by a toy monkey that acted as a harbinger of death. Now Hal (Theo James) is in his thirties. And the monkey is back. The Monkey, first published ...

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 ...

King without blood isn’t much of a spectacle, and thankfully, The Monkey has it in bucketloads. Off the back of his success with 2024’s Longlegs, Osgood Perkins has returned in a new form with ...

That being said, never before have we seen something like Osgood Perkins’ The Monkey: a terrific blend of pitch black sensibilities, a wickedly wry sense of humor, and epic body mutilation.

The Monkey marks a new step in that evolution. Like Perkins’ last movie, Longlegs, The Monkey is set—at least partially—in the ‘90s. And it does take inspiration from that era. But another ...

The new prop-quality collectible popcorn vessel for Osgood Perkins‘ latest horror film The Monkey is eerily similar to the classic wind-up toy at the center of the movie’s plot. The 85-ounce ...

But Osgood Perkins has chased his breakout with The Monkey, a film as grisly as it is gleeful, not to mention far more accessible than the occasional overly obscure Longlegs. For that you can ...