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In the new horror comedy, The Monkey, a pair of identical twin brothers get settled with a

cursed wind-up toy monkey that causes people around them to die freakish, gory deaths.

It's based on the Stephen King's short story and directed by Osgood Perkins, who made last

year's long legs.

I'm Glenn Weldon, and today we're talking about The Monkey on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR.

Joining us today is my Pop Culture Happy Hour co-host, Stephen Thompson. Hey, Stephen.

Hello, Glenn.

Also with us today is Jordan Cruciola. She is a writer and producer and the host of the podcast feeling seen on Maximum Fun. Hey Jordan.

Hello. Thank you so much for having me back. Always good to have you. So in the monkey, Theo James plays twin brothers Hal and Bill.

Hal is an introverted nerd. Bill is a bully. As kids, they discover a seriously creepy wind-up monkey that their missing father left behind.

Wind it up and it beats

its little toy drum, but when the music stops, someone close to the twins dies, painfully and

grotesquely. Twenty-five years later, the brothers are estranged. Hal is a sad sack loser who's

tried to isolate himself from the world, including from his own teenage son, Petey. Bill is M. I.A. But then people in

Hal and Bill's old hometowns start dying in freakish, brutal ways, and Howell realizes that his only

hope of protecting Petey from a horrible fate is by confronting the monkey and his absolute jerk

of her brother. The monkey is in theaters now. Jordan, kick us off.

What do you think?

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