Review: Trauma haunts 'The Monkey,' but the film is more interested in going bananas
Directed by Osgood Perkins, who broke out with the ominous 'Longlegs,' his follow-up is jokier and less effective, piercing ...
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Ex-NIH Director Concealed Problems With ‘Pointless’ Baby Monkey Abuse Studies, Kept Funding Them Anyway
Former National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins used a private email to discuss an NIH lab’s history of traumatizing ...
A Movie That Has Fun With the Inevitability of Death
The Monkey pairs its macabre sense of humor with an unsettling takeaway.
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A baby monkey went viral after she was found during a traffic stop. The full story isn't so cute
Several cell phones were found in the car, as well as four large containers of marijuana — fairly routine stuff, as traffic ...
The Monkey ending explained: What's up with that weird horseman?
Hal and Petey take the monkey and drive out of town, resolving to keep the monkey in order to stop anybody else from turning ...
Texas native Colin O’Brien enjoys mix of humor, gore in ‘The Monkey’
Now, O’Brien gets the chance to creep moviegoers out himself with his latest film, The Monkey. Based on a 1980 short story by legendary writer Stephen King, the comedy-horror follows twin brothers Hal ...
The Monkey is the opposite of Longlegs — and most modern horror
That audience won’t get what they’re expecting. And yet, as movie studios fixate on giving fans exactly what they want, ...
"The Monkey" wants to remind you that death is coming for us all, as if we didn't already know that
Osgood Perkins' follow-up to "Longlegs" pivots toward comedy, but there's no fun to be had with this toy monkey ...
Like Us, Theo James Is Freaked Out by the Toy in ‘The Monkey’
The actor discusses playing twins in Osgood Perkins’s horror film, finding humor in dark situations and why that monkey is so ...
Everybody Dies, And That’s F***ed Up: The Monkey Stars Open Up About The Stephen King Movie’s Blunt View On The Horrors Of Death
Considered by many to be one of the greatest movies of all time, The Shawshank Redemption celebrated its milestone 30 th ...
‘The Monkey’ Is a One Long, Sick Joke Without a Punchline
It’s content to be just one long, sick joke without a punchline, designed to occasionally punctuate a stylishly nihilistic ...
‘The Monkey’ review: Stephen King’s killer toy becomes ‘Longlegs’ creator Osgood Perkins’ plaything
Filmmakers tinker with the question of tone from project to project, many not as much as they should. But writer-director ...