Their vagabond wastrel of a father (Adam Scott, in a prologue cameo), long out of the picture, has left behind some trinkets and mementos, including one bad-intentioned toy monkey, not a cymbal ...

"White Lotus" star Theo James plays two identical twins in "The Monkey", a film about a a killer toy. Plaion Pictures/dpa ...

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 ...

When twin brothers Hal and Bill discover their father's old monkey toy in the attic, a series of gruesome deaths starts occurring all around them.

In Stephen King’s original The Monkey short story, the monkey toy that causes so much gnarly chaos is a classic staple of any vintage toy shelf. Specifically, a cymbal-playing monkey ...

In King’s original story, the monkey was one of those eight-inch-high ’60s novelty toys you would crank with a turnkey in the back, which made it jerk around and clap its cymbals. In the movie ...

The movie follows a pair of twins, Hal and Bill (both played by Theo James), as they grapple with the lifelong curse of a monkey toy with a dark ability to kill. While King’s name will alert ...

The Monkey had to change toy from cymbals to a drum after Disney had trademark ownership due to Toy Story 3. The horror movie stars Theo James alongside Elijah Wood and other big names in the ...