‘The Monkey’ Review: A Toy Monkey Heralds Over-the-Top Deaths in Osgood Perkins’ Trivially Snarky, Ham-Handed Follow-Up to ‘Longlegs’
A toy monkey heralds a series of over-the-top deaths in Osgood Perkins' trivially snarky, ham-handed adaptation of a Stephen ...
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Funny Horror: After Starting Strong, ‘The Monkey’ Falters a Bit—but It’s Still Worth a Watch
When The Monkey works, it really works. The film is based on a short story written by the one and only Stephen King, and ...
Box Office: ‘Captain America’ Tries to Stay Brave With $28M 2nd Weekend, ‘The Monkey’ Opens to Impressive $14M
Osgood Perkins' horror pic 'The Monkey' scared up the second-best opening in the history of Neon, the indie label that's also ...
After ‘The Monkey,’ trace the filmography of the Perkins family tree
Filmmaker Osgood “Oz” Perkins has a fascinating family history, which he reckons with in his own work, most recently “The Monkey.” In his latest film, a teenage boy attempts to map out ...
Review: Trauma haunts ‘The Monkey,’ but the film is more interested in going bananas
Directed by Osgood Perkins, who broke out with the ominous 'Longlegs,' his follow-up is jokier and less effective, piercing ...
‘The Monkey’ Director Oz Perkins on His Unusual Relationship to Horror, the Genre He Was Born Into
The 'Longlegs' writer/director talks to IndieWire about his career, Stephen King, and the origins of his toy monkey with no ...
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‘The Monkey’ a gleefully gory fable about generational trauma
Osgood Perkins is working some things out. The “Longlegs” filmmaker is the horror darling of the moment, but he also has a ...