As a child, Hal (Christian Convery) was terrorised by a toy monkey that acted as a harbinger of death. Now Hal (Theo James) is in his thirties. And the monkey is back. The Monkey, first published ...

Twin brothers, Bill and Hal, discover a cymbal-playing monkey toy, unleashing a series of terrifying deaths. Years later, as adults, they must confront the evil again, racing against time to stop the ...

The monkey toy in Osgood Perkins' new movie is undoubtedly terrifying, but it is actually different from Stephen King's story for one simple reason.

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.

There are murderous doll movies aplenty, and you can trace cymbal-banging monkey toys back to 1932's Hoppo the Waltzing Monkey—but King's imaginative blend of The Twilight Zone and Final ...

The source material this time around is a fantastic 1980 Stephen King story (republished in his 1985 collection “Skeleton Crew”) about the power a mysterious cymbal-banging toy simian has on ...

In King’s original text, the Shelburn family is terrorized by a cursed toy monkey that bangs cymbals together whenever it is about to cause another death.

According to Perkins, the change was made because Disney had copyrighted a cymbal-crashing monkey after one famously appeared in Toy Story 3.

Everything we know about the newest Stephen King adaptation, The Monkey, including the full cast and a potential streaming release date.