A Movie That Has Fun With the Inevitability of Death
The Monkey pairs its macabre sense of humor with an unsettling takeaway.
Trauma haunts ‘The Monkey,’ but the film is more interested in going bananas
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.
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‘The Monkey’ review: This poor man’s ‘Chucky’ isn’t scary or funny
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 ...
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‘The Monkey’ Review: Osgood Perkins’s Death-Dealing Doll
“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 ...
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‘The Monkey’ Review: Death Beats a Little Toy Drum
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 ...
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The Monkey film review — a murderous toy goes on the rampage in Stephen King adaptation
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 ...