If you read Stephen King's 1980 short story "The Monkey" and went into Osgood Perkins' new movie "The Monkey" expecting basically the same thing, I have some bad news for you. Perkins' absurdist ...

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 ...

Neon Share The first rule of “The Monkey” is there are no steadfast rules to “The Monkey.” This is a blood-red dark comedy about a toy monkey who is evil incarnate and has the supernatural ...

Even though the last few months have been relatively rough for horror movies, this week's The Monkey needn't worry too much. While major mainstream films have under-performed at the box office ...

Chris Plante co-founded Polygon in 2012 and is now editor-in-chief. He co-hosts The Besties, is a board member of the Frida Cinema, and created NYU’s first games journalism course. The Monkey is ...

Perkins makes a hard left into merrily grotesque slapstick with his new film, his fifth, “The Monkey.” The knob has been turned to a distinctly different tonal setting: Merry death ...

Do you want to know if The Monkey has any post-credits scenes? We’ll tell you right here: There are no extra scenes after the credits of the film, but there is a special surprise worth sticking ...

The Monkey stars Theo James as a pair of twins haunted by a cymbal-smacking monkey toy. Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black), Elijah Wood (Lord of The Rings, Yellowjackets), and Adam Scott (Severance ...

The Monkey ending spoilers follow. Death has never been more absurd or random as it is in Osgood Perkins's horror-comedy The Monkey, an adaptation of the Stephen King short story. It centres on ...

At first, the premise of The Monkey suggests the same sort of cause-and-effect setup. See, there’s this scary monkey toy—a vintage windup doll that creepily plays the drums—and whenever it ...

Loosely (and I mean loosely) adapted from the 1980 Stephen King short story, The Monkey proves a major stylistic U-turn that will either strike horror fans as the coolest thing ever or just ...