"Everybody dies, and that's life," Hal and Bill's mother Lois tells them after their babysitter Annie Wilkes (a neat, not-so-subtle nod to Stephen King's Misery) gets into a grisly accident at a teppanyaki restaurant. "I'll die, you'll die. All your friends will die, and their families, and their pets," her bizarre pep talk continues, "... let's go dancing."
As evidenced by its marketing (more on that later), a lot of people perish in Osgood Perkins' horror-comedy The Monkey. Unlike the similarly-themed Final Destination, though, it has something profound to say, all be it with a maniacal grin: death has already won if you spend your life in fear of it. The reaper is coming for us all, so you might as well boogie until he rocks up. It's not advisable, however, to get yourself involved with a creepy-looking conduit of evil that seriously speeds up the proceedings…
