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I Enjoyed The Monkey, But Stephen King's Two Other Movies Coming This Year Are Even More Exciting

The Monkey is the first Stephen King movie released in 2025, and while I enjoyed it a lot, the other two King movies coming out this year are even more exciting. The works of Stephen King have been an ...
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Osgood Perkins Changed 1 Key Aspect of Stephen King’s The Monkey (& It Makes the Story Even Better)

It is not uncommon for movie adaptations to change elements of the book in order to give audiences a more visually compelling ...
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'The Monkey' brings screams and laughs in equal, if not abundant, measure

Osgood Perkins has become one of the leading lights of the Gen Z horror renaissance, and I guess he comes by it honestly: He did play an adolescent version of Norman Bates, the character his father ...
The Escapist

The Monkey Might Be the Funniest Scary Movie Ever Made [Review]

“Everybody dies, and that’s life.” So says Hal Shelburn, played by Theo James, in Osgood Perkins’ latest film, The Monkey. As it turns out, that one line is incredibly apt for the surprisingly ...
WBUR

'The Monkey' is a gory, madcap rumination on death

The only certain thing in life is that everybody’s going to die. Me, you and everyone we know all have an appointment with the Grim Reaper, one that’s probably coming sooner and more suddenly than you ...
Variety

‘The Monkey’ Review: A Toy Monkey Heralds Over-the-Top Deaths in Osgood Perkins’ Trivially Snarky, Ham-Handed Follow-Up to ‘Longlegs’

Perkins' disappointing adaptation of a Stephen King story is about twin brothers who hate each other, but mostly it's about meaningless mayhem. In a movie landscape where the horror never stops, ...