"The Monkey" is about a cursed wind-up monkey toy that causes someone to die whenever it's played. The movie from filmmaker Osgood Perkins is based on a Stephen King story of the same name. It's ...

Effectively, Perkins’ The Monkey will either work for you or it won’t. You’ll know within the first few minutes if the concept of a demonic toy (don’t call it a toy!) monkey supernaturally causing ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. The logline for The Monkey reads, “When twin brothers find a mysterious wind-up monkey, a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. The logline for The Monkey reads, “When twin brothers find a mysterious wind-up monkey, a ...

Director Osgood “Oz” Perkins landed on the horror scene with last summer’s “Longlegs.” He immediately struck audiences as a filmmaker harboring a specific — albeit bloody — vision. As a certain ...

Oz Perkins’ “The Monkey” solidifies the director as one of the strangest nepo babies in the industry today. Less than a year off his modern horror masterpiece, “Longlegs” (2024), and a decade after ...

If you read Stephen King's 1980 short story "The Monkey" and went into Osgood Perkins' new movie "The Monkey" expecting ...

Last year’s Longlegs set the horror world alight with its remarkably gloomy and strange take on Satanism and serial killers. It also had a particularly startling Nicolas Cage appearance which always ...