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It might only be March, but Stephen King adaptation The Monkey is now the highest grossing horror movie of 2025

The monkey that's basically Satan is making a lot of green

Total Film

The Director Of 2025's Wildest Horror Wants To Make A Darth Vader Movie

Osgood Perkins, the director of 'Longlegs' and 'The Monkey,' dreams of directing a Darth Vader movie, and that's not as wild an idea as it sounds.

Inverse

Theo James adopted different voices for his parts in The Monkey

Theo James gave different voices to the twin brothers he portrayed in the comedy horror film 'The Monkey'.

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5 best movies like 'The Monkey' to stream right now

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Longlegs director has shared his dream project outside of horror, and now we're hoping it happens

Osgood Perkins also called horror directors Robert Eggers and Ari Aster "boss a** mega queens"

Total Film

Horror movie marketing ups its game once again, as the team behind The Monkey sends a gross-out bus to drive around Hollywood

"This is savage as f***. I love it"

Total Film

Why grisly movie deaths give us comfort

"The Monkey" tries its paws at reaching the heights of other gruesome franchises, but can't match their heart

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Longlegs director Osgood Perkins says he's never going to "run off and make a video game or an X-Men movie" because of the success of his horror movies

He wants to deliver "more of the same, but just made better"

Total Film

The Monkey review – fear is the key in a terrifyingly brilliant toy story

Longlegs director Osgood Perkins triumphs again with an eerie, emotionally profound tale of a malevolent wind-up toy

The Guardian - UK

Adam Scott's five-minute cameo in The Monkey is proof that he belongs in more horror movies

Opinion: Adam Scott's standout scene in The Monkey proves he's perfect for the horror genre

Total Film

"The Monkey" is one rotten banana

Osgood Perkins' follow-up to "Longlegs" pivots toward comedy, but there's no fun to be had with this novelty toy

Salon

The Monkey post-credits scene explained: does the new horror movie have a post-credits scene?

With The Monkey post-credits, there is a different kind of surprise in store for fans of Longlegs director Osgood Perkins

Total Film

The Monkey ending explained: Who dies and is the curse broken?

The new Stephen King-inspired horror from Longlegs director Osgood Perkins is out now

Total Film

The Monkey, Osgood Perkins’s follow-up to Longlegs, needed Nicolas Cage instead of Theo James

3/5 One of the most intriguing voices in horror has adapted a short story by Stephen King – about a mechanical toy that incites doom – that just about gets by on its own eccentricity

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She-Hulk star Tatiana Maslany says her next horror movie with Osgood Perkins won't be anything like The Monkey or Longlegs: "There's always a little mischief"

Exclusive: Tatiana Maslany also talks balancing humor and horror in Osgood Perkins' gory new flick The Monkey

The Independent UK

Longlegs director Osgood Perkins: ‘I am an authority in losing people in insane ways’

INTERVIEW: The actor-turned-filmmaker – who you may recognise from, yes, ‘Legally Blonde’ – has directed a new film about an evil mechanical monkey. He speaks to Annabel Nugent about grief, his mother’s tragic death on 9/11, and getting to know his famous father – ‘Psycho’ star Anthony – through his…

The Guardian - US

The Monkey review – slapdash splatter comedy is a grating misfire

Writer-director Osgood Perkins follows up horror hit Longlegs with a tiresome, juvenile adaptation of a Stephen King short story about an evil toy monkey

Total Film

The Monkey post-credits scene is reportedly a trailer for Longlegs director Osgood Perkins' next horror movie

It looks like we'll get our first look at Keeper after The Monkey

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New horror movie from Longlegs director The Monkey will be the first film ever to screen in churches and theaters simultaneously

The Osgood Perkins movie is on a monumental mission.

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Bizarre movie poster for The Monkey makes a bold statement

Its giving retro exploitation vibes.

Total Film

Upcoming horror movie The Monkey reveals creepy popcorn bucket – and all I can say is I'm definitely not bringing that into my house

Watch out; it's cursed

Total Film

The Monkey review: Longlegs director Osgood Perkins embraces his silly side in gory, surprisingly existential horror comedy

Inverse

'The Monkey' Review: A Glib Thriller That Botches Stephen King's Horror Classic

Osgood Perkins' follow-up to 'Longlegs' lacks any smarts or charm. Read our review of 'The Monkey.'

Total Film

Stephen King praises Longlegs director's new horror movie adaptation of his own short story: "It's batsh*t insane"

"I say that with admiration"

Total Film

The Monkey director explains why it was so important to him to give Stephen King's "chilling" short story a "playful horror" twist: "I think [that] seemed correct for a movie about a toy"

Exclusive: Osgood Perkins talks turning The Monkey into a horror comedy

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