Osgood Perkins’ The Monkey Looks Bananas in Its First Full Trailer

To beryllium honest, each the trailer for The Monkey needed to bash was database 3 names: Stephen King, James Wan, and Osgood Perkins. Any fearfulness instrumentality would instantly beryllium intrigued by that trio, particularly with Perkins coming disconnected the hugely palmy Longlegs. But no, the archetypal afloat trailer for The Monkey goes beyond conscionable those names. It shows a fearfulness movie that, potentially, is going to person a precise goofy sensibility and we can’t wait.

The Monkey is written and directed by Osgood Perkins, based connected a abbreviated communicative by Stephen King, and produced by James Wan. In it, Theo James (The White Lotus) plays a antheral whose household has been terrorized by a malevolent monkey doll. Every clip the mysterious doll clashes its cymbals, idiosyncratic dies. And, according to the poster for the movie “Everyone dies. And that’s fucked up.” Here’s the archetypal teaser for The Monkey:

And here’s that poster which, we’re guessing, mightiness spoil the movie with its terrifying tagline.

From what we cognize of the archetypal King story, it seems similar the movie mentation of The Monkey has a akin setup but perchance goes adjacent further. Last year, Deadline described the crippled arsenic follows: “When duplicate brothers Hal and Bill observe their father’s aged monkey artifact successful the attic, a bid of gruesome deaths commencement occurring each astir them. The brothers determine to propulsion the monkey distant and determination connected with their lives, increasing isolated implicit the years. But erstwhile the mysterious deaths statesman again, the brothers indispensable reunite to find a mode to destruct the monkey for bully earlier it takes the lives of everyone adjacent to them.” So, seems similar we get much of the monkey, much death, and much of our main histrion too, successful a dual role.

But what volition that each consciousness like? The code of the trailer is precise fearfulness drama acknowledgment successful portion to the opus “Let the Good Times Roll” by Shirley and Lee. But could that conscionable beryllium the trailer Neon is presenting? The thought of a cursed monkey who forces radical to execution by banging its cymbals is, to beryllium fair, beauteous goofy. And we cognize that Perkins loves to play with code and anticipation successful his films. So we’re guessing that portion The Monkey whitethorn not beryllium a consecutive fearfulness comedy, it’s going to beryllium some precise comic astatine times and precise gruesome astatine times. We’ll find retired successful a fewer months.

Alongside Theo James, The Monkey co-stars Christian Convery (Sweet Tooth) as good arsenic Tatiana Maslany (She-Hulk, Orphan Black), Elijah Wood (Lord of the Rings), Colin O’Brien (Wonka), Rohan Campbell (Halloween Ends), and Sarah Levy (Schitt’s Creek). It’s retired connected February 21.

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