The Monkey Movie Review

Movie Analysis & Review

The Monkey, released on 14 February 2025, is an Horror, Comedy film (Released) with a runtime of 97 minutes. Produced by Atomic Monster, C2 Motion Picture Group, Range Media Partners, Oddfellows Entertainment, The Safran Company, Stars Collective in Canada, United States of America. Directed by Osgood Perkins, the movie features performances by Theo James, Tatiana Maslany, Christian Convery, Colin O’Brien, Adam Scott, Elijah Wood, Rohan Campbell, Sarah Levy. The film had a budget of $10.0 million and grossed $68.9 million.
Plot Summary: When twin brothers find a mysterious wind-up monkey, a series of outrageous deaths tear their family apart. Twenty-five years later, the monkey begins a new killing spree forcing the estranged brothers to confront the cursed toy.

Cast and Crew

Cast: Theo James, Tatiana Maslany, Christian Convery, Colin O’Brien, Adam Scott, Elijah Wood, Rohan Campbell, Sarah Levy
Crew: Dave Caplan (Producer), Chris Ferguson (Producer), Fred Berger (Executive Producer), Jonathan DuBois (Line Producer), John Friedberg (Executive Producer), Brian Kavanaugh-Jones (Producer), Peter Luo (Executive Producer), Nancy Xu (Executive Producer)
Director: Osgood Perkins

Overview of The Monkey

Release Date: 2025-02-14
Runtime: 97 min
Genres: Horror, Comedy
Status: Released
Budget: $10,000,000
Revenue: $68,914,458
Production: Atomic Monster, C2 Motion Picture Group, Range Media Partners, Oddfellows Entertainment, The Safran Company, Stars Collective
Countries: Canada, United States of America
Certification (IN): N/A
OTT Providers: N/A
Keywords: sibling relationship, shotgun, supernatural, drums, harpoon, dark comedy, gore, twin brother, maine, accidental death, wasp, monkey, exploding body, death, evil, evil twin, based on short story, dual role, cursed, 1990s, father son relationship, mother son relationship, brother brother relationship, toy monkey, supernatural horror, toy, cursed object, horror, disgusted, japanese restaurant, father son estrangement, black comedy
External: IMDB

Story & Plot

When twin brothers find a mysterious wind-up monkey, a series of outrageous deaths tear their family apart. Twenty-five years later, the monkey begins a new killing spree forcing the estranged brothers to confront the cursed toy.

Trailer

Reviews

r96sk: <em>'The Monkey'</em> has a great concept and I enjoyed the wacky nature of it, I did almost lose interest in the human characters towards the end though. That isn't the best sign given the short 90 minute run time, but the end does come when desired so that saves it.

Theo James is pretty good in…

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"The Monkey teeters between ingenuity and frustration. Osgood Perkins crafts moments of inspiration and gets the best out of a solid cast, but the lack of a cohes…

CinemaSerf: This takes for ever to get going and once it does, it’s really an unoriginal semi-comedic horror drama centred around yet another not-so-menacing puppet. This time, it’s squabbling brothers “Hal” and “Bill” who discover an old hat box after their father dies and in it is what looks like a toy monkey…

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