Despite having powerful producers James Wan and Peter Safran aboard the Stephen King adaptation, no major studio wanted Perkins' take on the project before indie outfit Neon boarded: "I had to take it and run.

The Monkey' may be a wild movie, but Osgood Perkins tells us that his next film is "the wildest f'ing thing I've ever written."

The ‘Longlegs’ director returns with a gruesome horror film, based on a Stephen King short story, about a wind-up toy that unleashes random acts of violence.

Filmmakers tinker with the question of tone from project to project, many not as much as they should. But writer-director Osgood Perkins has no problem with tonal adjustment.

Theo James gives a comedic gem of a performance in "The Monkey," loosely based on the short story by Stephen King, writes our reviewer.