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 ...

“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 the movie, the monkey is a two-foot-tall sculpted plastic model whose arms bang up and down on a drum, as his mouth opens up to bare its teeth in a violent grimace. This monkey looks like a ...

As a child, Hal (Christian Convery) was terrorised by a toy monkey that acted as a harbinger ... with a snare drum for our Satanic simian to bang on, he’s maintained the core of the tale.

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 ...

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 ...

Stephen King’s 1980 short story ‘The Monkey’ is a surprisingly sombre take on the ‘cursed toy’ premise. When a moth-eaten toy clangs its cymbals, people die of natural but suspicious causes. The ...

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 ...

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.

Elijah Wood filmed his role in 'The Monkey' at the last minute. The 44-year-old actor appears in the upcoming horror but now his co-star Colin O'Brien has revealed how someone else was cast up until ...