Running time: 98 minutes. Rated R (strong bloody violent content, gore, language throughout and some sexual references). In theaters. Meet Injurious George. The supernatural villain of “The Monkey,” ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. The logline for The Monkey reads, “When twin brothers find a mysterious wind-up monkey, a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Scott Phillips covers the film festival circuit. Feb 17, 2025, 09:00am EST The title character of 'The Monkey' spins his ...

Jeremy Crabb is a film-focused freelance writer for Collider. Growing up just outside of Atlanta, Georgia, Jeremy first fell in love with cinema in 2005, when he made his first trip to the theater to ...

The Monkey is now available to watch at home following its release in cinemas back in February, bringing a new audience to its wild ending. Osgood Perkins' adaptation of the Stephen King short story ...

The Monkey deviates quite a bit from King’s original plot in order to reach a feature-length runtime. Things begin in a pawn shop, where pilot Petey Shelborn (Adam Scott, an always welcome surprise) ...

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 overabundance of empty ...

Osgood Perkins, the visionary filmmaker behind last year’s creepy-as-hell “Longlegs,” still remembers the first time he was exposed to Stephen King’s macabre world. He was a kid and his parents (actor ...