'The Monkey' directed by Osgood Perkins fails to deliver a compelling horror-comedy despite its gruesome killings. A toy chimp, akin to Chucky, randomly kills victims upon being operated. The movie, inspired by a Stephen King story, revels in exaggerated gore to the point of exhaustion but fails to generate genuine suspense. The narrative revolves around twin boys discovering the toy from their deceased father, leading to a series of unsatisfactorily blended horror and humor that ultimately feels dull and repetitive despite its attempts at depth.
Perkinsâ movie waters them down with its repetitious plot and weak attempts at humor, straining to be comedy as much as horror and effectively working as neither.
The supernatural villain of 'The Monkey' is a toy chimp that murders somebody every time his little key is turned and he starts to drum.
The tagline on the blue box says 'Like Life.' Itâs supposed to suggest, 'Like life, everybody dies.' In practice, however, it comes to mean, 'Like life, this is very boring.'
At one point, a woman falls into a bucket of fish hooks, and her torn-up face catches on fire before she runs outside and gets impaled on a for sale sign.
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