Based on the short story by Stephen King initially published in 1980 and now adapted for the screen and directed by Oswood Perkins is The Monkey trailer.
When twin brothers Bill and Hal find their father’s old monkey toy in the attic, a series of gruesome deaths start. The siblings decide to throw the toy away and move on with their lives, growing apart over the years.
Starring Theo James, Tatiana Maslany, Elijah Wood there’s not much being given away here but director Osgood Perkins most recent film ‘Longlegs’ has been one of the horror highlights of the year becoming the UK’s highest-grossing independent horror of the last decade which bodes well for his new film.
Perkins said that The Monkey will be far more comedic than any of his previous work. “It’s feeling more like an old John Landis movie or a Joe Dante movie or a Robert Zemeckis movie,” says director Perkins. “I saw an opportunity to make a wry, absurdist comedy about death. It’s about the very basic fact that we all die — and how f**king funny and weird and impossible and surreal is that s**t? And to come at it from a tragicomedy kind of voice felt like it fit.”
Perkins continued, “At the end of the day, if you want to reduce it, it’s the haunted toy or evil toy subgenre, and I couldn’t imagine doing a serious one of those. To me, it rang utterly false to approach it that way, so I just went in the other direction.” Perkins last helmed the excellent Longlegs and of that’s anything to go by this should prove to be excellent too
THE MONKEY WILL BE RELEASED IN CINEMAS ON 21st FEBRUARY 2025
related feature : The face of Longlegs……
related feature : ‘Something in the Water’ – shark talk with Hayley Street & cast Hiftu Quasem & Natalie Mitson
Here’s The Monkey trailer……
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