Though critics have long tried to put the work of Stephen King in a box, the reality is that there is immense diversity to be found in adaptations of his writing. The author is be

However, Perkins' screenplay works in a lot more death scenes, a custody battle subplot, and a seething twin. In his version, Hal and Bill (also played by James) were just boys when the monkey found them,

It looks like, first reactions to a horror movie «The Monkey» based on Stephen King's story, were not wrong — because official assessments and rev

"Everybody dies, and that's life," Hal and Bill's mother Lois tells them after their babysitter Annie Wilkes (a neat, not-so-subtle nod to Stephen King's Misery) gets into a grisly accident at a teppanyaki restaurant.