Specifically, a cymbal-playing monkey, a critter that even made it onto the cover of various versions of the Skeleton Crew book. This toy was clearly viewed as creepy by more than just King and ...

What if I told you Oz Perkins' The Monkey isn't the first to adapt Stephen King's short story? While Neon's 2025 goreganza is the approved and licensed adaptation, there's a lesser-known 80s ...

The movie, produced by NEON, is based on Stephen King's short story of the same name, The Monkey. The story was originally published in 1980. This is the second time it has been adapted into a film.

But with his adaptation of The Monkey ... a King short story’s worth of time on character gets in the way of how well Perkins warps the material towards his own ends. Start with: The book.

Stephen King’s 1980 short story “The Monkey” (which can be found these days in his outstanding 1985 collection, Skeleton Crew) tells the story of Hal Shelburn, a man who is obsessed with an ...

The Monkey might not be setting a new standard of excellence for King adaptations, but by Perkins merely leaning into the lunacy of the core premise, he showcased that creatives don’t need to be ...

Essentially a series of sketch-comedy illustrations of how many ways you can kill off your cast members, “The Monkey” comes from Stephen King’s 1980 short story. The psychic link between ...

Warning: You may not be able to sleep after watching The Monkey, a new Stephen King horror movie opening in theaters this weekend. Especially if you’ve ever had a toy monkey at any point in your ...

Almost as long as that legendary master of horror Stephen King has been keeping book lovers up at night ... So is the new one: Director Osgood Perkins' "The Monkey" (in theaters now), based ...