This is followed by an opening kill scene — a definite staple of horror — but with a few twists. A young woman named Janet (played by the genre veteran Katharine Isabelle) comes home from a movie ...

The 'Longlegs' writer/director talks to IndieWire about his career, Stephen King, and the origins of his toy monkey with no ...

Stephen King's grim short story The Monkey becomes Oz Perkins' gonzo midnighter where death is just another punch line.

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Osgood Perkins delivers a horror film far different from “Longlegs” (2024) in the form of “The Monkey” (2025).

The director and star of 'The Monkey,' talk inspirations, Stephen King, and deaths that were so absurd they had to be cut.

Before Oz Perkins became a modern horror maestro, he was our beloved David Kidney in Legally Blonde. And we'll always love ...

The Monkey’s repeated tagline — “Everybody dies” — is presented as maybe a little cathartic, a little bit of a relief, ...

Despite having powerful producers James Wan and Peter Safran aboard the Stephen King adaptation, no major studio wanted ...

From The Monkey to Longlegs, Osgood Perkins' opening scenes are always crucial to the plot of his horror movies.

Filmmaker Osgood “Oz” Perkins has a fascinating family history, which he reckons with in his own work, most recently “The ...

Oz Perkins has a new horror coming out after The Monkey, and star Tatiana Maslany says it’s something completely different.