Stephen King's The Monkey

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Horror movie The Monkey, the adaptation of the Stephen King short story, wrapped shoot a week ago and we can reveal that lead cast joining Theo James (The White Lotus) includes Tatiana Maslany (She–Hulk: Attorney at Law), Elijah Wood (The Lord Of The Rings), Christian Convery (Sweet Tooth), Colin O’Brien (Wonka), Rohan Campbell (The Hardy Boys) and Sarah Levy (Schitt’s Creek).

As we previously reported, the team behind the movie includes genre supremo James Wan, creator of the The Conjuring Universe and co-creator of the Saw and Insidious franchises.

In The Monkey, when twin brothers Hal and Bill discover their father’s old monkey toy in the attic, a series of gruesome deaths starts occurring all around them. The brothers decide to throw the monkey away and move on with their lives, growing apart over the years. But when the mysterious deaths begin again, the brothers must reunite to find a way to destroy the monkey for good before it takes the lives of everyone close to them.

Theo James plays the twins in later years. Convery plays the younger twins.

Wan is producing with Atomic Monster partner Michael Clear (M3GAN), and C2 Motion Picture Group’s Jason Cloth (Joker) and Dave Caplan (Babylon). C2 financed the supernatural story which has been adapted for the screen by genre specialist Osgood Perkins (Longlegs) who is also directing.

Brian Kavanaugh-Jones (Insidious) produces for Range and Chris Ferguson (Child’s Play) is producing for Odd Fellows. Exec producers are Range’s Fred Berger (La La Land), Stars Collective’s Peter Luo and Nancy Xu, and John Friedberg (Greenland) for Black Bear International.



Universal has released the first poster, the trailer will be out next week




NEON announced the final trailer will be out tomorrow.



New poster




Just watched this one, it's a first-rate black comedy, with a lot of gore... if that's something you like, it's possible you might enjoy this one.



I thought it had its moments, but the horror to comedy ratio wasn’t to my taste at all. The so-called ‘laughs’ at the very end seemed redundant and a bit annoying. Still, it’s quite a multi-layered thing, and I enjoyed it. Not sure if this is a spoiler, but it felt quite
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Final Destination-like. Maybe it’s the chain reaction angle. One summary I read post-viewing says the opening scene takes place in 1999. Doesn’t feel that way at all — the ‘80s atmosphere positively permeates the thing throughout, which makes sense if the short story is from 1980, but the ‘when’ does feel a bit hazy as a result. The phone book in the ‘now’ timeline looks positively ancient, so not sure what’s going on there, unless it’s just being deliberately vintage.
. Not sure if I’ll rewatch this.
I also absolutely hate Theo James’ face, ever since The Gentlemen, which doesn’t help matters.



I thought it was a fun watch. The story wasnt grest but most of the kills were.



That monkey sure wasn't monkeying around



I found it hilariously ridiculous. Pleasantly surprised by it.