Before you watch up a wind-up monkey toy terrorize a bunch of adults, refresh yourself with other childhood toy agents of chaos ...
Director Oz Perkins explains his thoughts on the toy's origins in The Monkey and the symbolism of how the figure works in the Stephen King movie.
In Stephen King’s original The Monkey short story, the monkey toy that causes so much gnarly chaos is a classic staple of any vintage toy shelf. Specifically, a cymbal-playing monkey ...
Their vagabond wastrel of a father (Adam Scott, in a prologue cameo), long out of the picture, has left behind some trinkets and mementos, including one bad-intentioned toy monkey, not a cymbal ...