Longlegs is a tough act to follow\u2014the deliberately peculiar marketing; the next-level Nicolas Cage freak show; the shockingly abundant box-office. But Osgood Perkins has chased his breakout with The Monkey, a film as grisly as it is gleeful, not to mention far more accessible than the occasional overly obscure Longlegs.<\/p>\n
For that you can perhaps thank producer James Wan\u2014of his many horror credits, the Saw series and its fondness for creative kills is maybe the most relevant here\u2014and source-material author Stephen King, whose short story \u201cThe Monkey\u201d is in his 1985 collection Skeleton Crew. It reads like a misprint (shouldn\u2019t that be \u201clife-like\u201d?), but it is indeed like life. The monkey randomly decides who it\u2019ll eliminate next, because death is random. And everybody dies. It\u2019s grim, but it\u2019s the truth\u2014and to have a movie with so much outrageous death also be about accepting death as something both mundane and inevitable feels like The Monkey\u2019s most clever achievement.<\/p>\n
The Monkey hits theaters February 21. Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.<\/p>\n\n Longlegs vs The Monkey: A Tale of Two Horror Movies A Tale of Two Horror Movies: Longlegs and The Monkey Longlegs is a tough act to follow\u2014the deliberately peculiar marketing;…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[629,630,631,632,633],"class_list":["post-3050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-james-wan","tag-neon","tag-osgood-perkins","tag-stephen-king","tag-the-monkey"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/02\/monkey_topart.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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