The Monkey

Name: The Monkey
Genre: Horror, Comedy
Released: February 21, 2025
Rating: 62

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Neon | Release Date: February 21, 2025 | R

Summary: When twin brothers find a mysterious wind-up monkey, a series of outrageous deaths tear their family apart. Twenty-five years later, the monkey begins a new killing spree forcing the estranged brothers to confront the cursed toy. Based on the Stephen King short story.

Genre(s): Horror, Comedy

Rating: R

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The Observer (UK) Ellen E Jones

Feb 26, 2025

Such intricate genre mechanisms are fundamental to The Monkey’s construction, but the film also has a heart that beats with authentic human emotion. Read full review

Polygon Chris Plante

Feb 24, 2025

Perkins has made a film that’s both more horrifically violent than his contemporaries’ projects and also unapologetically funny. Read full review

David Sims

Mar 8, 2025

Another kill is coming, and because we’re in this peculiar, mischievous film, it’ll be a playful one. But the outcome will always be the same: Someone who was once there is now gone. In the face of that chilling, prosaic nightmare, all Perkins can do is laugh. Read full review

Hannah Strong

Feb 19, 2025

It’s a good time, but not a great time – though within the canon of Stephen King adaptations, it’s definitely among the more fruitful offerings to make it to screen. Read full review

Screen Rant Mae Abdulbaki

Feb 21, 2025

It’s still a serviceable film, and you’re in for a wild and weird ride. Even its message, while nihilistic, has merit. I only wish The Monkey had a more balanced story to counteract its weaker elements. Read full review

Slashfilm Jeremy Mathai

Feb 6, 2025

The Monkey is a blood-soaked barrel of laughs and grisly kills that never finds an effective way to reconcile either of those. Read full review

G. Allen Johnson

Feb 19, 2025

All this could work, but Perkins never finds the proper tone in what is almost a spoof of the horror genre. Read full review

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