In King’s original text, the Shelburn family is terrorized by a cursed toy monkey that bangs cymbals together whenever it is about to cause another death. In Perkins’ film, its toy monkey ...

Have you ever had an old toy that didn't really make you smile? But actually, it sent shivers down your spine? Maybe it was its dead eye stare, or the frozen grin, or just the thought of what it might ...

It is a suspenseful and horror-driven story that revolves around a cursed toy monkey capable of causing death whenever its cymbals clash. The film follows twin brothers Hal and Bill, played by ...

Warning: This article contains spoilers for The Monkey.Osgood Perkins' newest horror movie, The Monkey, serves as an adaptation of the Stephen King short story of the same name. The movie follows ...

Where King describes the titular toy as holding two cymbals, the monkey on the movie poster holds in its hands two drum sticks, with a snare in front of his stomach. One might argue that the ...

Stephen King's grim short story The Monkey becomes Oz Perkins' gonzo midnighter where death is just another punch line.

Given the rich source material, one would expect a psychological horror film full of dread. Instead, Perkins delivers a ...

The movie itself focuses on a titular monkey toy, which sports a tiny little drum (a shift from the cymbals of the book). Ahead of the movie's launch, director Osgood Perkin told SFX that he ...

But Perkins couldn’t have them because apparently Disney had copyrighted a monkey playing cymbals for “Toy Story 3.” “They own Darth Vader and they own the cymbals,” Perkins says.