The toy monkey was a gift for his sons ... It could happen to anyone at any time, which gives life itself a scary edge, and The Monkey, though certainly over-the-top and creative in the way ...

The Monkey” lands as a twisted horror-comedy, superbly blending gruesome deaths with genuine laughs while exploring the ...

The unusual reason that The Monkey had to change the toy from a cymbal-banging monkey ... and makes the original story perfectly scary, the drumming monkey does help make the movie a little ...

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 follows two twin brothers Hal and Bill Shelbourne who, after inheriting a toy monkey from their father, become cursed. They’re horrified to learn that the monkey isn’t just a toy.

It focuses on a guy dealing with a magical toy monkey that causes mysterious and absurd deaths every time it bangs its drum. And yet, things get confusing. It's not just that Perkins adds extra ...

The movie itself focuses on a titular monkey toy, which sports a tiny little drum (a shift from the cymbals of the book). Ahead of the movie's launch, director Osgood Perkin told SFX that he ...