[The Monkey] is a bloody blast. A big shift away from the feel of Longlegs, the movie is a full on horror-comedy with Osgood Perkins having a ton of fun going into Final Destination territory with one crazy-gory-twisted death after another.

When it came time to make the Stephen King adaptation The Monkey, Longlegs director Oz Perkins drew on tragedies from his own life.

A s far as genre traditions go, gore has never been a focal point in the works of Stephen King. The terror he conjures in his stories tend to have empathetic origins. Instead of o