After shocking the horror world last year with box office juggernaut Longlegs, director Osgood Perkins returns with a gonzo adaptation of one of Stephen King’s most nihilistic short stories in The Monkey. Revamping the story from a morose, chaotic, paranoid chiller to a balls-out gory black comedy, Perkins continues his movement from slow-horror icon to alt-populist crowd-pleaser with this darkly hilarious tale of a wind-up monkey with a mind of its own. Hal seems like kind of a loser. Having survived a chaotic youth with shitheel twin brother, Bill, Hal has cut himself off from anyone who might care about him, including his estranged son Petey (Colin O’Brien). It’s hard to blame him, though. Hal lived through the deaths of both parents...

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