Warning: This article contains spoilers for The Monkey.Osgood Perkins' newest horror movie, The Monkey, serves as an adaptation of the Stephen King short story of the same name. The movie follows ...

Copyright issues have made The Monkey make a return to the recent internet headlines after the makers had to replace the monkey character's cymbals with drums because ...

Directed by Osgood Perkins, who broke out with the ominous 'Longlegs,' his follow-up is jokier and less effective, piercing the jugular with splatter gags.

The story follows a man plagued by a monkey toy that bangs its cymbals if you wind it up. Unfortunately, every time the monkey bangs its cymbals, someone dies. The 2025 Oscars won’t use this ...

Stephen King's grim short story The Monkey becomes Oz Perkins' gonzo midnighter where death is just another punch line.

But Perkins couldn’t have them because apparently Disney had copyrighted a monkey playing cymbals for “Toy Story 3.” “They own Darth Vader and they own the cymbals,” Perkins says.

Where King describes the titular toy as holding two cymbals, the monkey on the movie poster holds in its hands two drum sticks, with a snare in front of his stomach. One might argue that the ...

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 ...

It is a suspenseful and horror-driven story that revolves around a cursed toy monkey capable of causing death whenever its cymbals clash. The film follows twin brothers Hal and Bill, played by ...

The movie itself focuses on a titular monkey toy, which sports a tiny little drum (a shift from the cymbals of the book). Ahead of the movie's launch, director Osgood Perkin told SFX that he ...