The killer toy in Osgood Perkins's The Monkey is a mysterious and powerful force like in Stephen King's short story, albeit ...

On some level, the toys that gave our childhoods joy doing acts that would disturb even the most twisted of adults thrills us. With the murderous wind-up monkey toy of The Monkey likely joining ...

Filmmakers tinker with the question of tone from project to project, many not as much as they should. But writer-director Osgood Perkins has no problem with tonal adjustment. His recent and most ...

And it all goes back to 2010, when Walt Disney Pictures released “Toy Story 3.” Here’s what happened. You see, “The Monkey” is based on a 1980 King short story that was published in a ...

With the release of Blumhouse’s and Atomic Monster’s The Monkey, we’ve thinking about what other toys might be ripe for the haunting horror flick adaptation. From M3GAN to Chucky ...

While the upcoming horror film is set to be distributed by Neon, some changes were made to the original story because of Disney and Toy Story 3. In the source material for The Monkey, the story ...

In King’s original story, the monkey was one of those eight-inch-high ’60s novelty toys you would crank with a turnkey in the back, which made it jerk around and clap its cymbals. In the movie ...