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 ...

[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 ...

“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 ability of a single bruise to predict abuse when a child enters an emergency department (ED) has been unknown, but new research indicated that a validated screening tool is highly effective in ...

That’s the chilling message from the spooked airline pilot (Adam Scott) who arrives at a pawn shop, covered in blood that’s not his, trying to get rid of the monkey. It’s an old mechanical o ...

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 ...

“It doesn’t take requests,” we’re told, but the monkey never kills the person turning the key. The decapitation of their baby sitter, the aptly named Annie Wilkes (Danica Dreyer), ensures ...

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 ...

SPRINGFIELD, Tenn. (WZTV) -- Springfield police are investigating after a woman says she was knocked unconscious and was found half naked, bloody and bruised outside of her apartment complex.

Opens in a new tab or window A screening tool was effective in identifying abuse among children with a single bruise. The tool had a sensitivity of 81.5% and a specificity of 87.6%. Five key ...

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 ...