‘The Monkey' Review: A Toy Monkey Heralds Over-the-Top Deaths in Osgood Perkins' Trivially Snarky, Ham-Handed Follow-Up to ‘Longlegs'
It was a serial-killer mystery with a suavely creepy atmosphere and a showpiece performance by Nicolas Cage, who camped it up under long hair and pounds of makeup as an androgynous ringmaster sicko ...
A Movie That Has Fun With the Inevitability of Death
The Monkey pairs its macabre sense of humor with an unsettling takeaway.
Trauma haunts ‘The Monkey,’ but the film is more interested in going bananas
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.
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‘The Monkey’ review: Stephen King’s killer toy becomes ‘Longlegs’ creator Osgood Perkins’ plaything
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 ...
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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’
enters a pawn shop with a wind-up-doll monkey he wants to sell. 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 ...