The Monkey pairs its macabre sense of humor with an unsettling takeaway.

Directed by Osgood Perkins, who broke out with the ominous 'Longlegs,' his follow-up is jokier and less effective, piercing the jugular with splatter gags.

Thus malevolent dolls stalk horror directors’ nightmares ... Well, here comes another one. The menacing toy of “The Monkey” is right there in the title — more specifically, it’s a ...

The last film by horror specialist Osgood Perkins was Longlegs, in which a homicidal Satan-worshipping doll maker ... up The Monkey opts for no-frills realism: it is about a toy monkey that ...

Plus, his insistence on getting rid of the vintage toy monkey doll will innately pique curiosity. But luckily for the horror lovers in theaters around the world, Scott’s character’s reasons ...

“Like life” promises the box of a mysterious, demented-looking wind-up mechanical chimp in the horror-comedy “The Monkey.” Turn the key on the little beast’s back, and unleash ...

Evil dolls have been a popular horror movie trope ... told that Disney owned the rights to the original look of the monkey toy that the film originally used, which meant that he had to change ...

It starts with a pair of teen twins, sweet Hal and bully Bill (both played by Christian Convery), who discover a toy monkey that belonged ... different possessed dolls. Like Marie Osmond, he ...

Despite having powerful producers James Wan and Peter Safran aboard the Stephen King adaptation, no major studio wanted Perkins' take on the project before indie outfit Neon boarded: "I had to take it ...