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Film Review - The Monkey

Film Review - The Monkey

Osgood Perkins abandons satanic serial killers for toy simian slaughter

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Feb 26, 2025
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I approached The Monkey, the latest horror film from Osgood Perkins, with a certain amount of trepidation. After all, I was one of a vocal minority who considered Longlegs (2024) ridiculously overrated. With this Stephen King adaptation, Perkins abandons the ineffectual (and unscary) po-faced, one-note misery of that film for some…

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