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 ...

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[Spoilers for The Monkey ahead.] A campy, gory horror movie starring Theo James is as fun of a time as it sounds. The White Lotus actor gives a stellar performance in director Osgood Perkins ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

But Osgood Perkins has chased his breakout with The Monkey, a film as grisly as it is gleeful, not to mention far more accessible than the occasional overly obscure Longlegs. For that you can ...

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 ...

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 ...

As a child, Hal (Christian Convery) was terrorised by a toy monkey that acted as a harbinger of death. Now Hal (Theo James) is in his thirties. And the monkey is back. The Monkey, first published ...

Osgood Perkins directs The Monkey, a film based on Stephen King’s 1980 short story. The movie follows twin brothers who encounter a sinister toy monkey that causes mysterious deaths. Starring Theo ...