Warning: Some SPOILERS lie ahead for The Monkey! While the film leaves a lot up to the imagination, Oz Perkins has a pretty specific idea of the toy's origins in The Monkey. Written and directed ...

I said: Sign me up. It’s also funny. You can’t take a story about a toy monkey murdering people too seriously. What I love about Oz is that he makes you touch on a truth or a sentimentality ...

And it all goes back to 2010, when Walt Disney Pictures released “Toy Story 3.” Here’s what happened. You see, “The Monkey” is based on a 1980 King short story that was published in a ...

The movie itself focuses on a titular monkey toy, which sports a tiny little drum (a shift from the cymbals of the book). Ahead of the movie's launch, director Osgood Perkin told SFX that he ...

By comparison, his follow-up The Monkey opts for no-frills realism: it is about a toy monkey that causes hideous deaths. One biff on the snare drum from this grinning primate, and hapless ...