The Monkey (2025) takes a lot of creative liberty with King's source material. The movie includes two of the main characters from the short story, but it adds a few characters that were never ...

Streamin’ King is grave-digging through the myriad Stephen King adaptations available on streaming. In this installment, ...

Osgood Perkins' The Monkey makes some very deliberate changes to the original Stephen King short story, which turns the plot into a comedy.

King’s “Skeleton Crew,” the 1985 short story collection that “The Monkey” is included in, is available for purchase online on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and all major book-selling platforms ...

The Monkey might not be setting a new standard of excellence for King adaptations, but by Perkins merely leaning into the lunacy of the core premise, he showcased that creatives don’t need to be ...

Review: ‘The Monkey’ is one of those on-target Stephen King adaptations Stephen King fans know film and TV adaptations of his books are hit-or-miss — “The Monkey” is one of the good ones.

Stephen King's grim short story The Monkey becomes Oz Perkins' gonzo midnighter where death is just another punch line. ... Start with: The book. Its 30-odd pages of tension, ...

Stephen King’s The Monkey Gets First Teaser. The adaptation hits theaters on February 21, 2025. By Patrick Cavanaugh. August 12, 2024, 12:22pm. Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X; ...

Stephen King‘s books are a frequent source of inspiration for filmmakers, and it’s not hard to see why — from The Shining to Shawshank Redemption, King’s works make for big box office draws.

Meditations on The Monkey’s excellent tagline – “Everybody Dies, And That’s Fucked Up” – lead this week’s edition of The King Beat, but this week also brought us news about the ...

Perkins is best known for making the horror hit of summer 2024 – the serial killer thriller Longlegs – and the Stephen King short story on which the movie is based maintains a heavy, ominous ...