In fact, it’s the worst thing a horror film can be: boring. Following the success of Longlegs, Osgood Perkins has brought a smaller, semi-comedic project to the screen in some haste, which accounts ...

Have you ever had an old toy that didn't really make you smile? But actually, it sent shivers down your spine? Maybe it was its dead eye stare, or the frozen grin, or just the thought of what it might ...

Directed by Osgood Perkins, who broke out with the ominous 'Longlegs,' his follow-up is jokier and less effective, piercing the jugular with splatter gags.

In an adaptation of Stephen King’s short story, “The Monkey,” the film follows Hal and Bill Shelburn, portrayed by Theo James ...

"The Monkey," the new Osgood Perkins film based on a Stephen King short story, ends with the main character encountering a ghostly horseman.

Besides the tone, Perkins knew he needed to tailor the bones of King’s story to his own sensibility, and so the toy monkey ... the words “horror” and “comedy,” when they’re butted up next to each ...

I have wanted to write about this for a very long time, but I did not at first because, in the back of my mind, I thought ...

Hal soon discovers that it's his estranged twin Bill who now has the monkey and is responsible for the deaths. Bill has been turning the monkey's key, hoping that it'll be Hal that the monkey kills.

It’s just that horror is not his cup of tea ... I was like, ‘It’s a toy monkey, for one thing.’ It has this impish quality to it from the get-go, so it should have a sort of a sense ...