If you know anything about Osgood Perkins, then The Monkey (now streaming on Hulu, in addition to VOD platforms like Amazon ...

The Monkey's Annie Shares The Name Of One Of Stephen King's Most Famous Characters Early in 2025's The Monkey, the young Hal and Bill have a babysitter named Annie, played by actor Danica Dreyer ...

About the monkey itself, King writes: "It grinned at him with its murky amber eyes, doll's eyes, filled with idiot glee, its brass cymbals poised as if to strike up a march for some band from hell." ...

King’s “Skeleton Crew,” the 1985 short story collection that “The Monkey” is included in, is available for purchase online on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and all major book-selling platforms.

In dissociating the toy from the people around it, King finds optimism even in the short story’s murky ending. For Perkins, The Monkey is nothing without stupid and spiteful people there to use it.

Essentially a series of sketch-comedy illustrations of how many ways you can kill off your cast members, “The Monkey” comes from Stephen King’s 1980 short story.

Review: ‘The Monkey’ is one of those on-target Stephen King adaptations Stephen King fans know film and TV adaptations of his books are hit-or-miss — “The Monkey” is one of the good ones.

Based on a Stephen King short story, the film follows two boys who are given a toy monkey, which happens to be a harbinger of death. Film critic Sean Burns writes it's "a marathon of sicko gallows ...