Newest Stephen King Adaptation Has 1 Huge Change Horror Fans Don’t Expect
The writer’s scary stories have never been so entertaining — but in a different way.
Stephen King ’s upcoming adaptation is just several weeks away from finally hitting the screens across the world, and it’s already getting a very specific praise which might come as a surprise for King himself.
The Monkey, directed by Osgood Perkins and led by Theo James, will land in the theatres on February 21, but the early screenings prove that the movie might be a bit different from what some of the fans expect to see in there — all due to one unusual element.
The Monkey is a Comedy Horror
Based on Stephen King’s 1980 story of the same name, The Monkey recently got its first — and pretty much favorable — reviews, with all of them ranting about the movie’s comical side. CinemaBlend’s critic Eric Eisenberg called The Monkey “a blunt comedic sensibility that pairs wonderfully with its extreme gore”, also adding that “it successfully earns the superlative ‘Funniest Stephen King Movie’”.
Surprisingly, Eisenberg isn’t the only one to have such an uncommon take on Stephen King’s gruesome story — among many others is also Jeff Ewing who confessed that The Monkey is “one of the funniest horror comedies I’ve seen in a long time”.
However, the film couldn’t just get away with reviews only highlighting its fun part – all of them also have a lot to say about The Monkey’s truly disgusting sequences as well.
The Monkey’s Story Is Actually Not Funny
The movie’s plot revolves around twin brothers Hal and Bill who, after finding their father’s old toy monkey in their house’s attic, unintentionally set up a chain of horrendous deaths of people they know.
Frightened for their own life, the brothers decide to find a way to get rid of the malicious toy, but when the monkey finds its way back to Hal and Bill while sacrificing a couple more people, the brothers are forced to face the consequences of their own actions.
Judging by everything that’s already been said about the upcoming movie, The Monkey now has high chances to become a genre classic and a rare finding mixing both comedy and horror in Stephen King’s usually not that funny plot lines.
Sources: Eric Eisenberg, Jeff Ewing