The Monkey

The Monkey

Theatrical - Wide 2025-02-21

Cast Theo James Tatiana Maslany Elijah Wood
Directed by Osgood Perkins

Genres: Horror

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8/10

Synopsis

In The Monkey, when twin brothers Hal and Bill discover their father’s old monkey toy in the attic, a series of gruesome deaths starts occurring all around them. The brothers decide to throw the monkey away and move on with their... See more lives, growing apart over the years. But when the mysterious deaths begin again, the brothers must reunite to find a way to destroy the monkey for good before it takes the lives of everyone close to them.

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