It’s already been a wonderful year for horror, it’s only a month and a part until 2025, basically because of Companion, the killer Android mystery that was probably the most productive horror movie I’ve noticed all year past the year.
Now we have another emerging competitor, and this is another example where audiences and critics seem to be on the same page for once. It would be the monkey, which combines the horror trio of writer Stephen King, manufacturer James Wan and director Osgood Perkins, who made last year’s Longlegs, probably one of the maximum viral horror films of 2024, not disputed one of the best.
With review scores of 84% and a corresponding 85% viewership score, things seem to be hunting this time around. A movie, as you can see in the synopsis:
“When the twin brothers dig up a mysterious liquidation monkey, a series of outrageous deaths break up their circle of relatives apart. Twenty-five years later, the monkey begins a new series of murders, forcing the estranged brothers to confront the cursed toy. “
The trailer shows a film that feels a bit like the final destination, complete with random “accident” deaths, albeit caused through a demonic toy monkey that an invisible death force. You can check out this trailer below:
I’m interested in this cast, which includes Theo James (The Gentleman), Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black), and Elijah Wood (Lotr, Yellowjackets). However, they are still horror stars (wood repeatedly, at this point), and I’m curious to see how the paintings come together here.
One of my favorite bits of trivia about the movie is that the movie had to have the toy monkey play a drum, because the concept of toy monkey hitting cymbals belongs to Disney. It’s anything you can have, somehow.
The monkey will launch in two days on February 21 on a giant excursion. Since many horror movies 90% and above are much smaller and less published films, this may end up being one of the evaluated horror movies of the year, through those metrics. You can see it in theaters, but it can shoot a couple and go on to broadcast very quickly. The other significant one had only two weeks between the theatrical release and the PVOD, which is crazy, but it is the market those days.
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