Theo James

Tatiana Maslany

Christian Convery

Colin O'Brien

Adam Scott

Elijah Wood

Rohan Campbell

Sarah Levy

Osgood Perkins

Nicco Del Rio

Zia Newton

Kingston Chan

Laura Mennell

Corin Clark

Tess Degenstein

Beatrix Perkins

Danica Dreyer

Dianne Greenwood

Shafin Karim

Lumen Beltran

Janet Kidder

Paul Puzzella

Jeremy Cox

Jason Burkart

Katie Stuart

Michael Anthony Sallegue Samosa

Trey Helten

Eve Exner

Danny Virtue

Joyce Robbins

Jacqueline Robbins

Tina Pi

Doralynn Mui

Scott Nicholson

Dave Caplan

Chris Ferguson

Fred Berger

Nancy Xu

John Friedberg

Brian Kavanaugh-Jones

Peter Luo

Jonathan DuBois

James Wan

Nico Aguilar

Rich Delia

Errin Lally

Mica Kayde

Hannah Broad

Adam McCarthy

Trevor Johnston

Brendan Megannety

John Rickard

Jesse Savath

Natalia Safran

Dana Bontempo

Greg Pyne

Kennadee Wilkie

Kail O'Donnell Norton

Danny Vermette

Nancy Welsh

Amrit Bawa

Alan Derksen

Christopher Donaldson

Jonny Sigouin

Trevor Fieldhouse

Mike Klemak

Gabriel Medina

Leon Serginson

Robert W. Booth

John Fleming

Leonardo Harim

Yannie Yu

Brent Canning

Dwight Hartnett

Hugh Meikle

Andrea Hughes

David Rice

Asterios Moutsokapas

Joseph K. Vance

Namowan Kirby

Spencer Ela

Jon Warne

Tim Moshansky

Shelby Tony

Mike McAree

Eoin Sheehy

Greg Ng

Graham Fortin

Bria Rose Wilk

Connor Purcell

Ali Jazayeri

David Gendron

Jennifer Mendoza

Natasha Duprey

Seth Kleinberg

Aaron Becker

Jacob Straat

Marlaina Mah

Giuliana Bertuzzi

Giselle Bourget Morales

Bryan Smaller

Natalie Zara Smith

Jeff Bruneel

Edward J. Douglas

Johnny Fan

Solène Kerhardy

James Milligan

Sagar Patil

Tom Rolfe

Vikram Sanghai

Nick Winger

Michael Yu

Trino Madriz

Tim McCann

Alex Lara

Matthew Kallen

Javier Ivan Perez

Humberto Corte

Peter S. Carlstedt

Eugenio Battaglia

Jesse Barden

Miguel Araujo

Elizabeth Armerding

Eric Cairns

Allison Deleo

Vincent Proce

Alena Webber

Ashton Thomas

Benjamin Galloway

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The Monkey

Atomic Monster

C2 Motion Picture Group

Range Media Partners

Oddfellows Entertainment

The Safran Company

Stars Collective

Canada

United States of America

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sibling relationship

shotgun

supernatural

drums

harpoon

dark comedy

gore

twin brother

maine

decapitation

accidental death

wasp

monkey

exploding body

death

evil

evil twin

based on short story

dual role

cursed

1990s

father son relationship

mother son relationship

brother brother relationship

toy monkey

supernatural horror

cursed object

horror

disgusted

japanese restaurant

father son estrangement

black comedy

<em>'The Monkey'</em> has a great concept and I enjoyed the wacky nature of it, I did almost lose interest in the human characters towards the end though. That isn't the best sign given the short 90 minute run time, but the end does come when desired so that saves it.

Theo James is pretty good in this, for sure the most I've liked seeing him. I haven't seen him act much (five films now), my main thought of him is actually with human excrement up his nose (yep) in <em>'The Inbetweeners Movie'</em>... hopefully this performance will override that memory (it won't).

The gore shown for all the titular character's escapades is very cool and rather creative to be honest, the 'freak accident' angle is a fun one to watch play out onscreen. Everything with the red-eyed fellow is definitely what makes this movie, as it ought to really. A stronger overall story and I probably would've loved it.

Manuel São Bento

FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://movieswetextedabout.com/the-monkey-review-a-chaotic-blend-of-tones-and-genres-that-misses-the-mark/

"The Monkey teeters between ingenuity and frustration. Osgood Perkins crafts moments of inspiration and gets the best out of a solid cast, but the lack of a cohesive identity prevents its erratic blend of tones and genres from reaching its true potential.

For some, this chaotic, blood-soaked mix of horror, satire, family drama, and comedy will feel refreshing and daring; for others, it will be simply exasperating and disorienting.

Personally, it didn't work... at all."

Rating: C-

CinemaSerf

This takes for ever to get going and once it does, it’s really an unoriginal semi-comedic horror drama centred around yet another not-so-menacing puppet. This time, it’s squabbling brothers “Hal” and “Bill” who discover an old hat box after their father dies and in it is what looks like a toy monkey. They wind it up and next thing, their babysitter is no more and that’s the just the start of it’s malevolence. Putting two and two together, they decide it’s best to drop the thing down a well and get on with growing up. Scoot on years later and now “Hal” (Theo James) has a son of his own “Petey” (Colin O’Brien) and is trying to rebuild some bridges with him after his marriage collapsed. Equally estranged is his twin, so he’s not impressed when, out of the blue, he is called and told their aunt has died. He now has to drag the reluctant lad along to the home they grew up in and guess what is in the wardrobe? At times it’s quite funny, but I’m not sure how intentional that is as James delivers a seriously flat performance and the epitome of sibling rivalries involves a frankly risible degree of menace. It’s not that the idea is rubbish, though it is derivative, it’s that the acting and writing are poor and the scenarios - familial discord, new stepdad (Elijah Wood) etc. are all just too predictable and it provides virtually nothing new over a lacklustre one hundred minutes. I could certainly think of a few good uses for the chimp, though!

The Monkey( 2025)

Everybody dies. And that's fucked up.

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A review by r96sk

Written by r96sk on Fri Feb 21 2025

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