I made the mistake of watching “The Monkey” by myself in a large, nearly empty Cinemark theater. As the latest installment from “Longlegs” director Osgood Perkins, I was expecting to be horrified or, ...

Scott’s character quickly points out that this monkey is no toy, but the pawn guy doesn’t want it, observing that the monkey appears to be broken. Its hand, holding a drumstick, is stuck at ...

"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. It's ...

The cursed drum-hitting monkey toy brings death wherever it goes in the Stephen King horror comedy ‘The Monkey’. (Neon pic) Stephen King’s short story “The Monkey”, featuring a cursed ...

The monkey doesn’t move (except to bang its drum), nor inflect any direct violence. Also missing is the mysterious back story, which would normally need to be unlocked or solved to return life ...

The way Hal defeats the toy monkey also differs between the film and the source material. In King's short story, Hal and his son, Petey, throw the monkey into a lake and weigh it down with rocks.

With “The Monkey,” it’s an exercise in realizing that humanity has less control than perhaps we like to think we do. The one thing we all have in common is we have a short time on this earth.

The Monkey manages to lean full-force into sight gags and dry one-liners while still making plenty of room for beheadings, electrocutions, and a death-by-beehive sequence that has to be seen to be ...

Just when Hal thinks life couldn’t be any more miserable, he and his brother discover a toy monkey among the trinkets their father left behind from his world travels — a toy monkey who takes ...

The sound of Stephen King’s name should always be alluring to horror fans, and Osgood Perkins’ latest film “The Monkey” doesn’t disappoint in its adaptation of The King of Horror’s ...

A generation after the boys drop the killer mechanical percussionist down a well, it’s 2024, the monkey’s back, and Theo James takes over the roles of grown-up and now-estranged Hal and Bill.