The following contains spoilers for The Monkey, in theaters Feb. 21, 2025. Most people do not expect their horror-comedy to come with a side of emotionality. The subgenre exists to expand the ...

"The Monkey," the new Osgood Perkins film based on a Stephen King short story, ends with the main character encountering a ghostly horseman.

Hal soon discovers that it's his estranged twin Bill who now has the monkey and is responsible for the deaths. Bill has been turning the monkey's key, hoping that it'll be Hal that the monkey kills.

While The Monkey features a lot of wild deaths, director Oz Perkins' Stephen King adaptation borrows one of these from a bizarrely unexpected source.

“The Monkey” is not one of those serious, dreary, though mostly brilliant films. It’s a wacky, fast-paced, mostly brilliant comedy. Adapted from a 1980 short story by Stephen King (who also ...

Directed by Osgood Perkins, who broke out with the ominous 'Longlegs,' his follow-up is jokier and less effective, piercing the jugular with splatter gags.

Consequently, Perkins decided to pursue the subgenre of horror-comedy, which tends to be a tough sell within the studio system. That proved to be the case once more when a major studio balked at his ...

It’s a movie that doesn’t rely on cheap jump scares and focuses on what it does best, for the most part. It’s a solid film ...

Featuring an ensemble cast including Tatiana Maslany, Christian Convery, Colin O'Brien, Adam Scott, and Elijah Wood, 'The ...

As long as the jokes are funny, there’s plenty of space for humor ... That’s also one of the movie’s most glaring faults: “The Monkey” is certain that humans don’t think enough about ...

"The Monkey" is not worth the watch, considering how terrible the dialogue is. Theo James was the only highlight in this film ...

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