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The Monkey Makes a Sick Joke of Death

The Monkey is a film directed by Oz Perkins, adapting Stephen King's 1980 short story into a dark comedy filled with exaggerated gore.
In the film, a teenage boy discovers an evil toy monkey that wreaks havoc on those around him, including his family.
The film explores themes of morality with humor and horror, presenting death in a surprising and exaggerated manner.
Perkins notes that the film, though unsettling, is a commentary on existential dread and the absurdity of life and death.

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The Wrap

How ‘The Monkey’ Adapts a Short Story by a Horror Legend

“Longlegs” writer-director Osgood Perkins has returned this month with “The Monkey,” another nightmarish horror film with a shockingly violent edge. The similarities between the two movies more or less end there, though. The new film is, for starters, more of a blackly comic horror comedy than “Longlegs.” Unlike “Longlegs,” “The Monkey” is not an original story, either. On the contrary, while Perkins wrote and directed “The Monkey” alone, the ne…

19 hours ago·United States

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Ranker

Disney Forced This Stephen King Adaptation To Make A Huge Change To Its Villain

Stephen King described director Oz Perkins's adaptation of his short story The Monkey as “batsh*t insane,” stating, "As someone who has indulged in batsh*ttery from time to time, I say that with admiration.” Anyone who has seen the horror comedy - filled to the brim with flying body parts and a blood-soaked sense of irony - will likely agree. But fans of King's short story noticed one big change from the source material: this monkey from hell pl…

21 hours ago

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Washington City Paper

The Monkey Makes a Sick Joke of Death

Less than a year after his bone-chilling Longlegs, writer-director Osgood Perkins is back with an entirely different approach to horror. The Monkey is an adaptation of Stephen King’s 1980 short story, and this time around Perkins opts for exaggerated gore and dark comedy. Suspense is built over the killings, each more exaggerated and gorier than the last, but fear isn’t Perkins’ goal. Instead, The Monkey is a playfully sinister exploration of mo…

22 hours ago·Washington, United States

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Autostraddle

Two Lesbian Critics Rank Every Stephen King Film Adaptation

Autostraddle's King Dykes are back to tell you where The Monkey ranks among 49 other Stephen King adaptations. The post Two Lesbian Critics Rank Every Stephen King Film Adaptation appeared first on Autostraddle.

23 hours ago

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Vulture

The Monkey Saves the Stephen King Adaptation by Skewering It

The closer you look at The Monkey, the more you can see its deliberate subversions of the tropes that have come to define the Stephen King movie.

23 hours ago·United States

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CBC News

Stephen King adaptation The Monkey is a sick joke

The Monkey turns out to be is something more like a personification of its demon than an examination of it — perhaps because Stephen King and Osgood Perkins may just be the two worst possible creatives to bring together.

1 day ago·Canada

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