‘The Monkey’ Review: A Toy Monkey Heralds Over-the-Top Deaths in Osgood Perkins’ Trivially Snarky, Ham-Handed Follow-Up to ‘Longlegs’

"The Monkey," which Perkins adapted from Stephen King’s 1980 short story, doesn’t build on the earlier film’s promise. On the contrary, it’s a ham-handed, lurchingly obvious mess, without the glimmer of human interest that even a sensationalist horror film needs.

Feb 17, 2025 - 18:04
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‘The Monkey’ Review: A Toy Monkey Heralds Over-the-Top Deaths in Osgood Perkins’ Trivially Snarky, Ham-Handed Follow-Up to ‘Longlegs’
"The Monkey," which Perkins adapted from Stephen King’s 1980 short story, doesn’t build on the earlier film’s promise. On the contrary, it’s a ham-handed, lurchingly obvious mess, without the glimmer of human interest that even a sensationalist horror film needs.