THE MONKEY Oz Perkins take on Stephen King’s story

  

The Monkey is a 2025 horror film about an old toy that returns to haunt twin brothers years after they discard it.

Written and directed by Oz Perkins (Longlegs; Gretel and Hansel; I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House; The Blackcoat’s Daughter), Anthony Perkins‘ son (Psycho franchise) based on a short story by Stephen King first published in his ‘Skeleton Crew’ collection. Produced by Dave Caplan, Michael Clear, Chris Ferguson, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and James Wan. Executive produced by Fred Berger, John Friedberg, Peter Luo, John Rickard, Natalia Safran, Jesse Savath and Nancy Xu.

The Atomic Monster-C2 Motion Picture Group-Range Media Partners-Odd Fellows co-production stars Theo James, Christian Convery, Tatiana Maslany, Elijah Wood, Laura Mennell, Sarah Levy, Rohan Campbell, Colin O’Brien, Corin Clark, Zia Newton, Kingston Chan and Danica Dreyer.

Plot:
When twin brothers Hal and Bill discover their father’s old monkey toy in the attic, a series of gruesome deaths start occurring all around them. The brothers decide to throw the monkey away and move on with their lives, growing apart over the years.

However, when the mysterious deaths begin again, the brothers must reunite to find a way to destroy the monkey for good before it takes the lives of everyone close to them…

Background:
Writer-director Osgood Perkins recently told Bloody Disgusting: “It’s gonna feel more like Misery or Creepshow or Gremlins or American Werewolf. It couldn’t be less like Longlegs. To me, if you’re gonna make a movie about a toy monkey, you can be serious about it. But so much of King is funny and nostalgic feeling. So we tried to make a movie that felt a little bit more like something from the late ’80s – ’90s. It’s sorta like, if Robert Zemeckis had just like a little bit of acid and made a Stephen King picture about a monkey toy.”

Perkins added: “For me, ideally it’s the movie that kids and their parents wanna go see together. People blow up, people explode; it’s very extreme but it’s very funny. It’s very father-son redemption, it’s very touching, it’s very nostalgic, it’s very Stephen King.”

Filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Release date:
The Monkey is slated for release theatrically by Neon on February 21, 2025.

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