There's no reason given for how or why the monkey can kill people and that was a conscious choice by Osgood Perkins. "I repelled the baseline, more generic need in a movie to know where this thing ...

and the legendary Stephen King join IGN Fan Fest to talk about what made The Monkey such a perfect candidate for a movie, and weigh in on the debate which ironically never ends: is 90 minutes the ...

As in the movie, Aunt Ida and Uncle Will (also deceased) raised Hal and Bill after their parents died. Dennis finds the monkey in a box in Aunt Ida’s attic—the same box that Hal and Bill found ...

Based on a Stephen King short story of the same name, “The Monkey” promised a revival of the convoluted deaths from the “Final Destination” series by way of a splatter gore midnight movie.

Can a horror movie itself suffer from nervous fright? That’s the only explanation for the numbing lack of thrills or chills or dread in Osgood Perkins’ “The Monkey.” Given its ...

someone is killed and the weirdest thing 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.