The Monkey opens with Hal and Bill's father, Capt. Petey Shelburn, trying to give away the toy monkey at a nearby antique store.When talking to the shopkeeper, Petey explains that he doesn't know ...

The first rule of “The Monkey” is there are no steadfast rules to “The Monkey.” This is a blood-red dark comedy about a toy monkey who is evil incarnate and has the supernatural ability to ...

"The Monkey" is about a cursed wind-up monkey toy that causes someone to die whenever it's played. The movie from filmmaker Osgood Perkins is based on a Stephen King story of the same name. It's ...

The monkey is not a real monkey, it's a toy with a curse on its head. Wind up the key on its back and it plays a menacing drum roll that portends a gruesome death.

With the murderous wind-up monkey toy of The Monkey likely joining the pantheon of toy killers when the movie releases on February 21, here’s a list of movies that turn playtime into a nightmare ...

"The Monkey," which Perkins adapted from Stephen King’s 1980 short story, doesn’t build on the earlier film’s promise. On the contrary, it’s a ham-handed, lurchingly obvious mess, without ...

A generation after the boys drop the killer mechanical percussionist down a well, it’s 2024, the monkey’s back, and Theo James takes over the roles of grown-up and now-estranged Hal and Bill.

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

The Monkey hits theaters next week on February 21–some variation of all these toys above, meanwhile, are available on toy shelves everywhere… should you dare. Want more io9 news?