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 ...

The film "The Monkey" takes liberties with Stephen King's story, adding humor and extra ... and his relationship with an evil toy monkey he first encountered as a boy. Although the toy looked ...

The film, adapted from a Stephen King short story, stars Theo James as twin brothers who battle for control of a randomly lethal toy monkey. It received significant praise from critics and ...

(NEXSTAR) — Horror director Osgood Perkins (“Longlegs”) says he had to make a major change when adapting the Stephen King short story, “The Monkey,” for the forthcoming film of the same ...

In the nightmarish The Monkey, shocked chuckles accompany gross-out chills. The only concession made for the faint-hearted is ...

The Monkey, Osgood Perkins’ follow-up to Longlegs, is bonkers, but it never commits to any tone, and because of that, it feels like it resides in a sort of tonal limbo from which it cannot escape.