“The Monkey—both the toy and the film as a whole ... the one I just watched just a few minutes prior, becoming a full cartoon at multiple points. Even the deaths start feeling repetitive ...

emitted by a cartoon sun laughing hysterically as it chars sunbathers to a crisp. As Katie Rife writes in her review, “The Monkey makes its farcical intentions clear from its opening scene ...

In fact, “The Monkey” was also made for around $10 million ... “The movie leads with its heart, and it’s obviously a cartoon. Every death is totally impossible to actually occur ...

The blurb for The Monkey: When twin brothers Bill and Hal find their father’s old monkey toy in the attic, a series of gruesome deaths starts. The siblings decide to throw the toy away and move ...

Viewed as an absurdist dark comedy, or live-action horror cartoon for grown-ups, The Monkey is a gory good time, subverting audience expectations at every turn. Just don’t enter the cinema expecting ...

“Everybody dies” is a somber truth, but The Monkey treats that fact with a cartoon sensibility, which felt like the most sophisticated, joyful way of doing it. Does making a comedy movie feel ...

That’s the only explanation for the numbing lack of thrills or chills or dread in Osgood Perkins’ “The Monkey.” Given its overabundance of empty shock humor, the movie seems afraid to be ...

Luobai, a PhD student who has been working on a long form graphic novel, Anxiety is a Red Monkey, heads to Brighton next ...

Osgood Perkins' horror pic 'The Monkey' scared up the second-best opening in the history of Neon, the indie label that's also home of awards darling 'Anora.' By Pamela McClintock Senior Film ...

In fact, “The Monkey” was also made for around $10 million ... “The movie leads with its heart, and it’s obviously a cartoon. Every death is totally impossible to actually occur,” he states. Which ...