Essentially a series of sketch-comedy illustrations of how many ways you can kill off your cast members, “The Monkey” comes from Stephen King’s 1980 short story. The psychic link between ...

Which Pixar Movie Inspired The Monkey’s Source Material Deviation? In Stephen King’s original The Monkey short story, the monkey toy that causes so much gnarly chaos is a classic staple of any ...

The Monkey is set in the 90s because an initial 80s plan seemed overdone thanks to Stranger Things. Stephen King fans are in for a treat this month as The Monkey will soon be released, which will ...

Adapted from a Stephen King short story, “The Monkey” is directed by Osgood Perkins, whose most recent film was last year’s disturbing, vibey horror hit “Longlegs.” I didn’t chuckle ...

Warning: You may not be able to sleep after watching The Monkey, a new Stephen King horror movie opening in theaters this weekend. Especially if you’ve ever had a toy monkey at any point in your ...

“The Monkey” is classic King material. A creepy windup childhood monkey doll that plays cymbals and bears a stressed-out psycho smile re-enters the lives of two very different twins (Theo James ...

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 ...

Osgood Perkins is having fun these days. And you know what? He’s earned it. One of the more interesting horror directors to emerge in the last decade, Perkins finally had his mainstream ...

Stephen King’s short story “The Monkey” was originally published in a 1980 issue of Gallery magazine, and later anthologized in King’s wildly popular 1985 collection “Skeleton Crew.” ...

Fast-forward 25 years and the monkey resurfaces, threatening the adult twins (both expertly played by Theo James) and Hal’s teenage son, Petey (Colin O’Brien). In the town of Casco, in King ...

By comparison, his follow-up The Monkey opts for no-frills realism ... Based on a Stephen King story, the film is played strictly for charnel-house laughs. It begins with the childhood of twin ...