Film critic Peter Travers shares his review of Oz Perkins' "The Monkey."

One recurring line in writer/director Osgood Perkins’ The Monkey cuts right to the heart of the film’s plot and tone: “Everybody dies, and that’s lif...

Director Osgood Perkins adapts the Stephen King story that inspired the cover of the author’s 1985 anthology, "Skeleton Crew."

There's no message, just a string of of creative and gruesome deaths inflicted by an evil plaything.

The Monkey is full of thrilling blood and guts, but it also asks bigger questions about suffering and violence.

Filmmakers tinker with the question of tone from project to project, many not as much as they should. But writer-director Osgood Perkins has no problem with ...

Theo James stars in writer/director Osgood Perkins' demented adaptation.

“Longlegs” director Osgood Perkins’ latest horror movie about a dysfunctional family comes up empty.

This Stephen King adaptation is a hilarious horror tale. Just go with it.

Theo James stars in Osgood Perkins' cursed simian Stephen King horror adaptation, out on 21 February. Read the Empire review.

The film releases on February 21

The horror filmmaker follows his smash Nicolas Cage/Maika Monroe-starrer with this adaptation of a Stephen King story, headlined by Theo James and Tatiana Ma...

One of the most intriguing voices in horror has adapted a short story by Stephen King – about a mechanical toy that incites doom – that just about gets b...

This dashed-off comedy-horror from the director of Longlegs is cheaply cynical - and as unscary as it is unfunny

Based on the Stephen King story, Osgood Perkins’s new film delivers spectacularly gruesome beheadings, eviscerations and disembowelment

Esto es lo que puedes esperar de ‘The Monkey’, ‘Cleaner’ y más películas nuevas en la cartelera

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.

Oz Perkins' "The Monkey" is responsible for some of the most fun you'll have at the movies this year.

A cheeky monkey with a violent streak gets Theo James in all sorts of trouble in Osgood Perkins' bloodthirsty horror based on a Stephen King short story.

"Longlegs" fans aren't ready for "The Monkey."

Beware the titular, simian serial killer

Wonky kong gets the gong.

A gruesome horror comedy adapted from a Stephen King story mixes nihilism, fatherhood and carnage.

An R-rated Looney Tunes sensibility makes the movie a fun time, but the horrors of childhood trauma weigh it down considerably.

The Monkey recaptures the artfully shameless filmmaking of ‘80s horror

It’s almost like death has a sense of humor in "The Monkey".

The blood and guts of “The Monkey” is played for laughs in Osgood Perkins’ film of Stephen King’s monstrous wind-up toy thriller. It’s a heavy-hand...

What do you get when you mix the 'Longlegs' director with a short story by the Master of the Macabre? Hint: It involves drum solos and decapitations.

Osgood Perkins' follow-up to "Longlegs" pivots toward comedy, but there's no fun to be had with this toy monkey

After shocking the horror world last year with box office juggernaut Longlegs, director Osgood Perkins returns with a gonzo adaptation of one of Stephen King...

A childhood toy wreaks bloody havoc in Osgood Perkins' uneven 'Longlegs' follow-up

The Monkey, the new blood-soaked Stephen King adaptation from Longlegs director Osgood Perkins, never lives up to its potential. Here's our review.

The slaughter starts when the music stops in this oddball tale.

Oz Perkins is working some things out. The “Longlegs” filmmaker is the horror darling of the moment, but he also has a very famous, and very tragic, fami...

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

It turns out that a toy monkey is the most malevolent movie villain we’ve seen in years. Horror fans are going to want to see “The Monkey.”

A review of The Monkey, starring Theo James and Tatiana Maslany, opening in theatres everywhere on Friday, February 19, 2025.

Even the most dedicated gore-hound will find themselves simply grinning and bearing through it all, desperately searching for a vision within all the viscera

With gruesome yet hilarious kills and a surprising emotional core, Osgood Perkins’ 'The Monkey' will have you drumming for more.

Following up ‘Longlegs’ with ‘The Monkey,’ Osgood Perkins is on the ascent in the horror world—but with a movie that merely pounds away, he appears...

The latest from 'Longlegs' filmmaker Osgood Perkins delivers gruesome thrills for these twisted times.

The star taking on two roles is the most interesting element of Oz Perkins’s tenuously plotted film about an evil toy monkey

The “Longlegs” director adapts a classic Stephen King story into one sick, twisted and very funny joke

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

The latest Osgood Perkins movie, adapted from a Stephen King story, is a fine diversion — if you ignore the gaping hole at its center.

But it's not without fault.