The Monkey (2025)

Last updated on August 7th, 2025 at 11:17 pm

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes

When twin brothers find a mysterious wind-up monkey, a series of outrageous deaths tear their family apart. Twenty-five years later, the monkey begins a new killing spree forcing the estranged brothers to confront the cursed toy.

NEON distributes in the US.

Director Osgood Perkins (The Blackcoat’s Daughter, Longlegs) had a recent interview where he revealed the tone and what to expect from the movie, saying: “It’s gonna feel more like Misery or Creepshow or Gremlins or American Werewolf. It couldn’t be LESS like Longlegs. To me, if you’re gonna make a movie about a toy monkey, you can be serious about it. But so much of King is funny and nostalgic feeling. So we tried to make a movie that felt a little bit more like something from the late ’80s – ’90s. It’s sorta like, if Robert Zemeckis had just like a LITTLE bit of acid and made a Stephen King picture about a monkey toy.” Adding… “For me, ideally it’s the movie that kids and their parents wanna go see together. People blow up, people explode; it’s very extreme but it’s very funny. It’s very father-son redemption, it’s very touching, it’s very nostalgic, it’s very Stephen King.” (6/21/24)

Filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Actor Theo James plays the twins in later years, while Christian Convery plays the younger version of the twins.

Based on the Stephen King short story with the same name from his 1985 short story collection The Skeleton Crew.

Black Bear Pictures released The Monkey in UK Cinemas on February 21, 2025.

NEON released The Monkey in Theaters on February 21, 2025.

NEON released The Monkey on PVOD on April 4, 2025.

NEON released The Monkey on 4K Ultra HD/Blu-Ray Combo, Blu-Ray, and DVD on June 24, 2025.

The Monkey premiered on Hulu on August 7, 2025.

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Director: Osgood Perkins