Warning: this review contains spoilers. NEON’s new Stephen King adaptation, “The Monkey,” is not for the faint of heart but is an absolute blast for those who can stomach the absolute carnage on ...

Editor’s Note: This article is a review and includes subjective thoughts, opinions and critiques. As someone whose first genre choice is seldom horror, I thoroughly enjoyed Oz Perkins’ latest film ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook This is from the official trailer of “The Monkey” distributed by Neon. I made the mistake of ...

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 ...

The Book of Revelation is a running motif throughout “The Monkey,” Osgood Perkins’ newest film based on a short story by Stephen King. Specifically, the film repeatedly references Revelation 6:8, ...

On Jan. 25, famed horror author Stephen King posted on Threads, “You’ve never seen anything like THE MONKEY. It’s batshit insane. As someone who has indulged in batshittery from time to time, I say ...

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 ...

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 saw Osgood Perkins’s recent summer blockbuster “Longlegs,” you may be in want of another chilling, somber, story-driven thriller. You may think to turn to “The Monkey,” Perkins’s newest film ...