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Stephen Kingcast

Episode 65: Osgood Perkins' The Monkey (2025)

Stephen Kingcast

Constant Reader

Tv & Film, Arts, Arts:books, Books

4.7680 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I talk about how Osgood Perkins' The Monkey was my favorite moviegoing experience of 2025 and how it successfully managed to become the best Stephen King content of the year, in a year that included The Long Walk, The Life of Chuck, Never Flinch, It: Welcome To Derry and The Running Man.  As always, write in at stephenkingcast@yahoo.com Follow me on Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook and Bluesky. Stay organized and up to date with all things Stephen King at stephenkingcast.com Check out bonus material, early episodes and reviews of all things pop culture over at patreon.com/stephenkingcast

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0:00.0

Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Stephen King cast. One Man's Musings on the Works of Stephen King. Each week I will review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King in the chronological order of publication. And today what I'm going to be doing, I'm not talking about any of Stephen King's written works. I am actually going to be reviewing one of the adaptations from one of his short stories

0:23.8

that came out last year in February, just about a year ago, that I never had a chance to talk

0:31.5

about that I should have talked about and should have championed when it came out because

0:37.4

it was my favorite movie-going experience.

0:42.3

Well, one of my favorite movie-going experiences.

0:45.0

A great time in the theater, and it's something that I just watched again and want to celebrate.

0:51.7

And that is Osgood Perkins, Theo James, starring The Monkey.

0:59.0

So for everyone that is tuning in for the first time,

1:02.7

welcome to the Stephen Kingcast.

1:03.9

I hope you enjoy it.

1:04.8

There are almost 300 episodes for you to go and soak up.

1:09.9

Once upon a time, I started out reviewing, like I said, at the top of

1:14.1

this podcast, each of the works of Stephen King and the chronological order of publication. So,

1:20.1

if this is your first time tuning in and you were looking for in-depth reviews on particular

1:25.1

books or, you know, every one of his books, you just have at it.

1:31.0

Just go back to episode one and make your way through. I start with Carrie, and I go all the

1:35.3

way to whatever the last publication was at the time. And I've reviewed each one of his books.

1:44.7

I've reviewed a number of his movies.

1:46.9

There's a lot of top 10 lists and just a lot of good content in this back catalog.

1:51.7

So enjoy.

1:53.3

And for those of you who have been with me for many years at this point,

1:57.7

thanks for sticking with me, everybody.

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