"The Monkey," the new Osgood Perkins film based on a Stephen King short story, ends with the main character encountering a ghostly horseman.

Director Oz Perkins explains his thoughts on the toy's origins in The Monkey and the symbolism of how the figure works in the Stephen King movie.

The deadly power that the evil toy displays in 2025's The Monkey proves it is a terrifying and almost unbeatable force. Like in Stephen King's story, the killer toy in The Monkey is a mysterious ...

Based on a Stephen King short story, the film stars Theo James as twins Hal and Bill Shelburn who have been traumatized since childhood by a cursed monkey toy that brings about a shocking death ...

The Monkey stars Theo James as a pair of twins haunted by a cymbal-smacking monkey toy. Tatiana Maslany (Orphan ... The Monkey is based on Stephen King’s short story by the same name, originally ...

Based on a random 1980 Stephen King short story of the same name ... The movie itself focuses on a titular monkey toy, which sports a tiny little drum (a shift from the cymbals of the book).

The Monkey film takes creative liberties with King's story, changing characters, tone, and setting. The movie transforms a horror story into a black comedy with absurd and gory deaths. Both the ...

Given its overabundance of empty shock humor, the movie seems afraid to be about much of anything except its toy monkey ... 2024 The story, as changed by Perkins, is that the bug-eyed monkey ...

It's an old mechanical organ grinder toy — sorry, NOT a toy! — and it’s been causing lots of chaos. Thus begins “The Monkey,” Osgood ... Perkins, basing his story on a 1980 tale by ...

A gruesome horror comedy adapted from a Stephen King story mixes nihilism ... Well, here comes another one. The menacing toy of “The Monkey” is right there in the title — more specifically ...

including one bad-intentioned toy monkey, not a cymbal-crasher as in King’s story but a drummer with a vengeance. Each time the monkey’s mechanical key is turned, someone — anyone ...