That audience won’t get what they’re expecting. And yet, as movie studios fixate on giving fans exactly what they want, Perkins may be making a name for himself by giving them exactly what he wants. The Monkey is, to put it gently, the peanut butter to Longlegs ’ celery.

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

Longlegs fans should know that The Monkey is unlike anything director Oz Perkins has made before, but continues tackling a consistent theme throughout his work.

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

In a world where many often feel powerless due to the increasing chaos around them, did the state of the world impact how Perkins approached writing this film?

But none of those movies will prepare people for The Monkey’s outright goofy comedy, which turns disemboweling and death by mass hornet ingestion into squirmy laugh moments. Adapting a Stephen King short story about a wind-up toy monkey that haunts a family with a series of deaths,