The Monkey - Kritiken

...needed Nicolas Cage instead of Theo James.

...an uproariously bleak work of comedy horror, powered by two of the genre’s brightest – sorry, darkest – minds.

...it sure makes for a fun night at the movies.

There’s no cheating in “The Monkey.” It’s coming for you. And it’s gonna be messy.

It might be a horror, but it's a laugh riot, too. It's all things, all at once. Just like life.

Prepare for a disgusting, hilarious cinematic experience.

A cheeky monkey with a violent streak gets Theo James in all sorts of trouble in Osgood Perkins' bloodthirsty horror based on a Stephen King short story.

No one else could have made this version of The Monkey because of all those indefinable, immutable yet ethereal elements that make Perkins’ movies not just popcorn flicks but gourmet popcorn.

Osgood Perkins’s Stephen King adaptation laughs at generational trauma.

Reveals some feeling beneath its torrents of splat-stick blood.

...totally bananas horror thriller from the director of ‘Longlegs’.

...fear is the key in a terrifyingly brilliant toy story.

This is a blood-red dark comedy about a toy monkey who is evil incarnate and has the supernatural ability to kill people in a variety of creative and gruesome ways, and either you go with that or you don’t.

...it does showcase that Osgood Perkins has other sides to him which can only help him be a force in the horror genre for years to come.

...finds fresh ways to explore Perkins’ favorite theme: generational trauma.