“I made the mistake of watching “The Monkey” by myself in a large, nearly empty Cinemark theater. As the latest installment from “Longlegs” director Osgood Perkins, I was expecting to be horrified or, at least, shocked.
“Instead, “The Monkey” is a flurry of confusion. The film follows twin brothers Hal and Bill Shelburne (Theo James, “Divergent”) as they deal with a murderous toy monkey accidentally passed down to them by their absentee father.
“The story kicks into gear when, as children, young Hal and Bill (Christian Convery, “Cocaine Bear”) discover that winding up the monkey with a key will cause someone nearby to arbitrarily and brutally die.
“As adults, the resurgence of brutal, freak accidents in their town forces the brothers to find the monkey once again.”
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