Filmmakers tinker with the question of tone from project to project, many not as much as they should. But writer-director ...

Oz Perkins' 'Longlegs' follow-up 'The Monkey' opening to $17M in the face of 'Captain America: Brave New World's $30M+ second ...

Osgood Perkins follows up Longlegs with The Monkey, a fun and delightfully gory splatter comedy based on the Stephen King ...

It’s content to be just one long, sick joke without a punchline, designed to occasionally punctuate a stylishly nihilistic ...

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 ...

While the upcoming horror film is set to be distributed by Neon, some changes were made to the original story because of Disney and Toy Story 3. In the source material for The Monkey, the story ...

With the release of Blumhouse’s and Atomic Monster’s The Monkey, we’ve thinking about what other toys might be ripe for the haunting horror flick adaptation. From M3GAN to Chucky ...

The main sustenance is course after course of ketchup-covered set-pieces... So who better to adapt the chilling tale than Osgood Perkins, whose 2024 breakout hit Longlegs, like King’s The Monkey, is ...

The narrative centers on a man haunted by a toy monkey that bangs its cymbals when wound up. Each time the monkey strikes, a death occurs, intensifying the story’s chilling premise. The 2025 Osc ...

(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 name — and he ...