The Monkey film takes creative liberties with King's story, changing characters, tone, and setting. The movie transforms a horror story into a black comedy with absurd and gory deaths. Both the ...

What if I told you Oz Perkins' The Monkey isn't the first to adapt Stephen King's short story? While Neon's 2025 goreganza is the approved and licensed adaptation, there's a lesser-known 80s ...

“Don’t ever call it a toy - it’s evil,” explains our hapless hero, Hal (Theo James ... of deaths dreamt up by Stephen King in his 1980 short The Monkey - which the movie barely resembles ...

But with his adaptation of The Monkey, filmmaker Oz Perkins takes Stephen King back to the cornball grindhouse—far sleazier, sillier, and juicier than the dreadful source. These takes only share ...

Based on a Stephen King short story, the film stars Theo James as twins Hal and Bill Shelburn who have been traumatized since childhood by a cursed monkey toy that brings about a shocking death ...

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 ...