Early on in The Monkey, twin brothers Hal and Bill (both played by Christian Convery) rifle through their dad’s closet. It’s been a year since their dad had mysteriously disappeared, leaving their ...

While director Oz Perkins’ Stephen King adaptation The Monkey might be a funny and surprisingly life-affirming movie, that doesn’t stop it from being 2025’s goriest horror movie so far. Theo James ...

Osgood Perkins thrives in the unexpected. After delivering a nerve-shredding horror film in Longlegs, he’s back less than a year later with something stranger in The Monkey, an adaptation of Stephen ...

The Monkey follows young twin brothers Bill and Hal Shelburn (Christian Convery), who happen upon their father’s toy wind-up monkey tucked away in the attic. Whenever the key on the monkey’s back is ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. The Monkey — a hit horror comedy from Longlegs filmmaker Osgood Perkins — is apparently ...

Olga Artemyeva is a film critic, screenwriter and film curator based in NYC. She has a PhD in Art History and teaches Film Studies. Her dissertaion was dedicated to the evolution of horror, and it ...

Director Osgood Perkins says his adaptation of Stephen King’s The Monkey might be funnier than some fans expected. IGN recently talked to Perkins about his upcoming film Longlegs (you can read the ...

Less than a year after he left audiences haunted with his Nicolas Cage-led indie horror hit "Longlegs," writer-director Osgood Perkins is back with another singular cinematic nightmare. His latest ...

There's an interesting method to the bloody madness. Max Evry has been a film journalist since 2005, serving at various times as a writer, interviewer, graphic designer, podcaster, video creator, ...