The Monkey' is a pitch perfect horror-comedy where if you have a penchant for twisted, blood-soaked, macabre laughs, you’ll ...

But “The Monkey,” which Perkins adapted from a 1980 short story by Stephen King, doesn’t build on the earlier film’s promise. On the contrary, it’s a ham-handed, lurchingly obvious mess ...

In theaters. Meet Injurious George. The supernatural villain of “The Monkey,” writer-director Osgood Perkins’ one-note followup to last year’s surprise horror hit “Longlegs,” is a toy ...

Reveling in kills that are senseless, aggressive, and increasingly imaginative and nightmarish, The Monkey is not just a stomach-churning treat for horror fans. It also feels like a challenge ...

As a child, Hal (Christian Convery) was terrorised by a toy monkey that acted as a harbinger of death. Now Hal (Theo James) is in his thirties. And the monkey is back. The Monkey, first published ...

That being said, never before have we seen something like Osgood Perkins’ The Monkey: a terrific blend of pitch black sensibilities, a wickedly wry sense of humor, and epic body mutilation.

I can only hope you don’t go out in one of the hyperviolent, showstopping ways that writer-director Osgood Perkins reserves for his characters in “The Monkey.” Death not only has a sick ...

But Osgood Perkins has chased his breakout with The Monkey, a film as grisly as it is gleeful, not to mention far more accessible than the occasional overly obscure Longlegs. For that you can ...