Their vagabond wastrel of a father (Adam Scott, in a prologue cameo), long out of the picture, has left behind some trinkets and mementos, including one bad-intentioned toy monkey, not a cymbal ...

Osgood Perkins follows up Longlegs with The Monkey, a fun and delightfully gory splatter comedy based on the Stephen King ...

It’s content to be just one long, sick joke without a punchline, designed to occasionally punctuate a stylishly nihilistic ...

The main sustenance is course after course of ketchup-covered set-pieces... So who better to adapt the chilling tale than Osgood Perkins, whose 2024 breakout hit Longlegs, like King’s The Monkey, is ...

In King’s original story, the monkey was one of those eight-inch-high ’60s novelty toys you would crank with a turnkey in the back, which made it jerk around and clap its cymbals. In the movie ...

Effectively, Perkins’ The Monkey will either work for you or it won’t. You’ll know within the first few minutes if the concept of a demonic toy (don ... in a creepy ’70s way.

The movie follows a pair of twins, Hal and Bill (both played by Theo James), as they grapple with the lifelong curse of a monkey toy with a dark ... funny — take an early death, which results ...

The supernatural villain of “The Monkey,” writer-director Osgood Perkins’ one-note followup to last year’s surprise horror hit “Longlegs,” is a toy chimp that murders somebody every ...

Captain Petey Shelborn (Adam Scott) walks into a pawn shop determined to rid himself of a large toy monkey. Before the owner gestures to the sign that reads “no children’s toys,” he points ...

And it all goes back to 2010, when Walt Disney Pictures released “Toy Story 3.” Here’s what happened. You see, “The Monkey” is based on a 1980 King short story that was published in a ...