Director Osgood Perkins says it was important for his adaptation of Stephen King's short story The Monkey to be more on the comedic side - rather than a straight horror.
"I took a playful horror shine to it right away. That was important to me from the get-go with this project, that it wasn't going to be dreadfully sombre. It was going to be more comedic, and cosy, which I think seemed correct for a movie about a toy. I wanted to steer away from the more serious movies about possessed toys, which don't ring true for me," Perkins says in the new issue of SFX magazine, which features Daredevil: Born Again on the cover and hits newsstands on January 29.
