"The Monkey"

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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For this week's main podcast review, Sara Clements, Josh Parham, Dan Bayer, Tom O'Brien, and I are here to discuss and review the latest film from Osgood Perkins, "The Monkey," starring Theo James, Tatiana Maslany, Christian Convery, Colin O'Brien, Rohan Campbell, Sarah Levy, Adam Scott & Elijah Wood. Hot off the success of "Longlegs," Perkins decides to switch gears and adapt the 1980 Stephen King short story as a horror comedy, with some of the year's darkest humor and shocking kills. What did we think of this tonal change for the acclaimed horror filmmaker? Please tune in as we discuss the writing, direction, acting, kills, and more in our SPOILER-FILLED review. Thank you for listening, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is a review of the monkey.
0:05.9	Oh, that's odd. I don't remember locking this.
0:08.6	You wouldn't have to remember if my aunt had a wind-up toy monkey at the Yards Hill.
0:14.5	Oh, not a cherished childhood memory now, was it?
0:21.6	No, no, no, no, no, no, no!
0:27.6	The coroner said it was an accident, but it was no accident.
0:34.6	It was a monkey.
0:39.2	When I was a kid, my twin brother and I found something that loved to kill.
0:45.4	I did everything I could to make it go the fuck away.
0:51.5	But it had other plans.
0:54.2	All right, everybody, you were just listening to the trailer for The Monkey, and the story is as follows.
0:59.0	When twin brothers, Bill and Howe find their father's old monkey toy in the attic, a series of death start.
1:06.5	The siblings decide to throw the toy away and move on with their lives growing apart over the years.
1:11.9	The film is starring Theo James, Tatiana Maslani, Elijah Wood, Christian Convery, Colin O'Brien, Roan Campbell, and Sarah Levy.
1:20.7	It is written and directed by Osgood Perkins, and here to join me today for this podcast review.
1:26.5	I have Sarah Clements.
1:28.6	Everybody dies and that's fucked up.
1:31.8	Dan Baer.
1:33.4	Oh, fucked up.
1:36.0	Josh Parm.
1:37.5	Hello, hello.
1:39.1	And Tom O'Brien.
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