‘The Monkey’ Review: A Toy Monkey Heralds Over-the-Top Deaths in Osgood Perkins’ Trivially Snarky, Ham-Handed Follow-Up to ‘Longlegs’
A toy monkey heralds a series of over-the-top deaths in Osgood Perkins' trivially snarky, ham-handed adaptation of a Stephen ...
Why The Monkey Had to Change Stephen King’s Story (It’s Because of Pixar)
Among the horrific yarns chronicled in Stephen King‘s 1980 short story collection Skeleton Crew is The Monkey. A take on the classic horror staple of toys going very wrong, this tale’s proven to be a ...
‘The Monkey’ director Osgood Perkins explains why film’s evil toy plays the drum
(NEXSTAR) — Horror director Osgood Perkins (“Longlegs”) says he had to make a major change when adapting the Stephen King ...
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"Copyrighting useless things again": Users can’t believe The Monkey had to replace cymbals with drums because of Disney’s Toy Story 3 copyright claim
Copyright issues have made The Monkey make a return to the recent internet headlines after the makers had to replace the ...
Osgood Perkins On How His Hollywood Family’s Disturbing Past Led Him To Toy With Death in The Monkey
His father was ‘Psycho’ star Anthony Perkins, and his mother was photographer Berry Berenson, complicated people who both ...
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‘The Monkey’ director Osgood Perkins says Disney is why film’s evil toy plays the drum
The story follows a man plagued by a monkey toy that bangs its cymbals if you wind it up. Unfortunately, every time the monkey bangs its cymbals, someone dies. The 2025 Oscars won’t use this ...
The Monkey Review: This Stephen King Adaptation Is Bananas In All The Best Ways
The 20 Most Violent Films Of All Time Twin brothers Hal and Bill (the adult versions both played by Theo James, and the ...
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THE MONKEY Popcorn Bucket Is Guaranteed to Creep You Out
Weird fun fact: The toy monkey itself bangs drums instead of cymbals like in Stephen King’s original story, because Disney owns the rights to the one clashing cymbals because of the Toy Story ...
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10 great films based on short stories
Do short story adaptations make better films than novel adaptations? Ahead of the release of a new film of Stephen King’s The Monkey, we look at 10 of the best.