The film, adapted from a Stephen King short story, stars Theo James as twin brothers who battle for control of a randomly ...

The "Longlegs" filmmaker drew from his own experience with people dying "in insane ways" for the Neon horror comedy The post ...

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 ...

Filmmakers tinker with the question of tone from project to project, many not as much as they should. But writer-director Osgood Perkins has no problem with tonal adjustment.

The Monkey features many changes from Stephen King's short story, with the original ending being much bleaker.

“Everybody dies, and that’s life” is director Osgood Perkins' overarching theme in “The Monkey ... be it disembowelment via harpoon or cobra on a golf course. Based on a Stephen King short story, the ...

The Monkey sees director Osgood Perkins follow Longlegs up with a horror-comedy that looks death in the eye and says "sh!t ...

A toy monkey heralds a series of over-the-top deaths in Osgood Perkins' trivially snarky, ham-handed adaptation of a Stephen ...

The Monkey is the first Stephen King movie of the year, but the next one, to be released in November, is very different but ...

"Longlegs" filmmaker Osgood Perkins adapted Stephen King's story "The Monkey," starring Theo James as twin brothers haunted ...