The elaborately staged deaths are the highlight of the movie, which is an amusing ... rabbit toy that would be right at home alongside the similar-looking monkey, and it makes a brief cameo ...

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

Like the characters in “The Monkey,” she only makes her situation worse as she attempts to set things right. Josh Bell is a freelance writer and movie/TV critic based in Las Vegas. He's the ...

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“The Monkey” crashes ... you know some bad stuff is about to go down, and by the end, it certainly does. “The Blackcoat’s Daughter” is also a highly rewatchable movie.

“Every horror movie is about everybody dying, right ... or ‘The Monkey,’ everybody dies… Horror was around me. I’ve lived through some of the real stuff, and I’m older than that ...

right?’ ” Watching “Gremlins” as a kid was huge influence on Perkins’ “The Monkey,” and the director has received feedback from 12- and 13-year-olds who think “it's the best movie ...

Right from the beginning ... is that whoever turns the monkey’s key will not be killed. The kills are all spectacularly splashy, tasteless in an operatic horror movie form.

Love movies? Live for TV? USA TODAY's Watch Party newsletter has all the best recommendations, delivered right to your inbox ... Director Osgood Perkins' "The Monkey" (in theaters now), based ...

they found the right beat to make this movie dance. Sure, you could ask for more depth and fat to the plot and the narrative as a whole is predictable, but The Monkey is absolutely what you wish a ...