As adults, they are still haunted by the trauma of their mother’s sudden, blood-soaked death, and the return of the monkey forces them to confront their unresolved grief. Hal, in particular ...

Perkins’ latest film, “The Monkey,” based on a Stephen King short story, is about how siblings might handle generational trauma, family curses and the horrific randomness of death.

Perkins’ latest film, “The Monkey,” based on a Stephen King short story, is about how siblings might handle generational ...

Can a horror movie itself suffer from nervous fright? That's the only explanation for the numbing lack of thrills or chills or dread in Osgood Perkins’ “The Monkey.” Given its overabundance ...

Emory University’s National Primate Research Center — formerly Yerkes — has, for decades, sold the public and federal funders on the illusion that its experiments on primates drive scientific progress ...

If that sounds sufficiently thick with psychological dread about family bonds and trauma, too bad: "The Monkey" is a forced, kitschy deadpan comedy about how we all have it coming, with nothing to ...