The Monkey is grisly business and yet as conducted by Perkins with over-the-top flair and sharp edits that drolly cut off people’s exclamations, the film exhibits an amusingly bleak sense of humor.

Review: ‘The Monkey’ is one of those on-target Stephen King adaptations Stephen King fans know film and TV adaptations of his books are hit-or-miss — “The Monkey” is one of the good ones.

Review: 'The Monkey' doesn’t disappoint even if it never quite reaches horror heights This film will give you shivers of anticipation.

The Monkey is an impressive tonal 180 from Oz Perkins, but the splatter-ific dark comedy runs out of steam in the second half.

A toy monkey heralds a series of over-the-top deaths in Osgood Perkins' trivially snarky, ham-handed adaptation of a Stephen King story.

The Monkey is one of the best horror-comedies (and Stephen King adaptations) in recent memory, exploding off the screen with both gory kills and big laughs.

Gore, death, and revenge are three qualities typically found in the horror genre, and the 2025 adaptation of Stephen King’s “The Monkey” does not shy away from them. Many of King’s novels and short ...

The supernatural villain of “The Monkey,” writer-director Osgood Perkins’ one-note followup to last year’s horror hit “Longlegs,” is a toy chimp that murders every time his little key ...

In the opening stretch, the Monkey King (Jimmy O. Yang) hatches from a rock, glares his red laser eyes at the heavens, and declares that he’ll command the gods’ attention by defeating 100 ...

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“The Monkey” with being inspired by a short story by Stephen King, and slight “Final Destination” vibes, gives you a horror movie that will hit the spot.