The Monkey (film)

The Monkey is a 2025 American-British-Canadian horror film about twin brothers Bill and Hal who find their father's old monkey toy in the attic that sets off a series of gruesome deaths.

Directed and screenplay adapted by Osgood Perkins, based on the 1980 short story by Stephen King.

Everybody dies. And that's fucked up.taglines

Lois

Everybody dies. Some of us peacefully and in our sleep, and some of us... horribly. And that's life.

Captain Petey Shelborn

[Torching the monkey with a flamethrower] Who's smiling now, you infernal son of a whore?

Thrasher

Open up, it's the motherfuckin' police!

Petey

[Seeing his father and uncle as kids] You're fucking twins?
I'm one of those kids that can only go poo in a house.
[Repeated line] Shit, man, that sucks.

Dialogue

Bill Shelburn: The monkey that likes killing our family, it's back. It must be vanquished.

Hal Shelburn: Why won't you vanquish it, huh, Bill?

Bill Shelburn: You wouldn't happen to remember if, uh, my aunt had a wind-up toy monkey at the yard sale?

Barbara: Oh, not a cherished childhood memory now, was it?

Bill Shelburn: Does it hurt very much when you think, Ricky?

Thrasher: Well um...

Bill Shelburn: [Mockingly] -Uh, -uh, -uh, -well, -well... Did you know that, uh, twenty-seven percent of all English-speaking people will either say 'horseshit' or 'holy shit' before they die? Now, it's funny, because death is the one big thing that'll happen to all of us, and yet we still can't help but be somehow surprised by it.

Thrasher: Right on, man.

Taglines

Everybody dies. And that's fucked up.
The monkey that likes killing our family ...it's back.

Cast

Theo James - identical twins Hal and Bill Shelburn
- Christian Convery - young Hal and Bill
Tatiana Maslany - Lois Shelburn, Hal and Bill's mother
Colin O'Brien - Petey Shelburn, Hal's son
Rohan Campbell - Ricky, a local thrasher
Sarah Levy - Ida Zimmer, Hal and Bill's aunt
Adam Scott - Captain Petey Shelburn, Hal's absent father
Elijah Wood - Ted Hammerman, the new husband of Hal's ex-wife
Osgood Perkins - Chip Zimmer, Lois' older brother and Hal and Bill's uncle
Tess Degenstein - Barbara, a real estate agent
Danica Dreyer - Annie, Hal and Bill's babysitter

External links

The Monkey quotes at the Internet Movie Database
The Monkey at Rotten Tomatoes

Adaptations of works by Stephen King
Films	The Shining (1980) · Cujo (1983) · The Dead Zone (1983) · Christine (1983) · Cat's Eye (1985) · Silver Bullet (1985) · Stand by Me (1986) · The Running Man (1987) · Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990) · Graveyard Shift (1990) · Misery (1990) · The Lawnmower Man (1992) · Sleepwalkers (1992) · The Dark Half (1993) · Needful Things (1993) · The Shawshank Redemption (1994) · Dolores Claiborne (1995) · Thinner (1996) · The Night Flier (1997) · Apt Pupil (1998) · The Green Mile (1999) · Hearts in Atlantis (2001) · Dreamcatcher (2003) · Secret Window (2004) · Riding the Bullet (2004) · 1408 (2007) · The Mist (2007) · Dolan's Cadillac (2009) · A Good Marriage (2014) · Cell (2016) · It (2017) · It Chapter Two (2019) · (2025)
	*Carrie*	Carrie (1976) · The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999) · Carrie (2002) · Carrie (2013)
	*Creepshow*	Creepshow (1982) · Creepshow 2 (1987) · Creepshow 3 (2006)
	*Children of the Corn*	Children of the Corn (1984) · The Final Sacrifice (1993) · Urban Harvest (1995) · The Gathering (1996) · Fields of Terror (1998) · Isaac's Return (1999) · Revelation (2001) · Children of the Corn (2009) · Genesis (2011)
	*Firestarter*	Firestarter (1984) · Rekindled (2002)
	*Trucks*	Maximum Overdrive (1986) · Trucks (1997)
	*Pet Sematary*	Pet Sematary (1989) · Pet Sematary Two (1992) · Pet Sematary (2019)
	*The Mangler*	The Mangler (1995) · The Mangler 2 (2001) · *The Mangler Reborn (2005)
Television	Episodes	"Gramma" (1986) · "Sorry, Right Number" (1987) · "The Revelations of Becka Paulson" (1997)
	Series	Golden Years (1991) · The Dead Zone (2002–07) · Kingdom Hospital (2004) · Haven (2010–present) · Under the Dome (2013–15) · 11.22.63 (2016)
	Films or miniseries	It (1990) · The Tommyknockers (1993) · The Stand (1994) · The Langoliers (1995) · The Shining (1997) · Quicksilver Highway (1997) · Storm of the Century (1999) · Stephen King's Desperation (2006) · Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King (2006) · Bag of Bones (2011) · Big Driver (2014)
		*Salem's Lot*	Salem's Lot (1979) · A Return to Salem's Lot (1987) · Salem's Lot (2004)
		*Sometimes They Come Back*	Sometimes They Come Back (1991) · Sometimes They Come Back... Again (1996) · Sometimes They Come Back... for More (1998)
		*Rose Red*	Rose Red (2002) · The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer (2003)
See also	{{Stephen King}}