‘The Monkey’ review: ‘Longlegs’ director goes gory, cartoonish

Can the horror movie itself suffer from nervous fear? This is the only explanation for the lack of excitement, chills, or awe in “The Monkey” in Osgood Perkins. Looking at the abundance of empty humor, it seems that the film is afraid to be more than anything except for the number of Toy Monkey’s body.

Perhaps this is a state of diabolical fatigue for Berkins, as it starts from the success of the destruction “Longlegs,” At the top of an independent movie last year, and a suitable suitable round in mental and physical debris, leaving a frightening gift behind it. The source this time is a great story of 1980 Stephen King (re -published in his 1985 “Skeleton crew”) about the power raised by the mysterious Simian game around which a boy surrounded by death and then when he is adult. Rose with a strange sin. Does the monkey do? Are childhood fears a little more than merely we try our entire life to suppress it?

There is enough from any decent horror outlet that annoys him, especially a way out of the eye to get the details and mood that gave “Longlegs” an aura of hidden anomalies and immortal and volatile. So why does Berkins avoid what a human being is in nature in “The Monkey” and goes to the far influence of the cartoon characters and the Looney Tunes massacre?

The introduction, which was placed in the Pedic Store and features a blood stained Scott. The problem is that by starting from SNARK, the film guarantees that we will never see the monkey as anything but a new gag, dropping his hand from Drumstick, which is the dopamine repair of Gore lovers. ) Just gave him a terrible voice for Nicolas Cage and let him be fully fascinated.

The story, as Perkins changed, is that the monkey with the eyes, which comes in a box bearing a “like life”, is the discovery of the twin -matching children Hull and Bell (both playing by Christian Conferre) who live with his single mother (Tatiana Massalani). After some heinous deaths, their lives are highlighted, and this is the cursed game and brotherhood. The actor “White Lotus” Theo James was cut after years. In the small town of Min, which he left behind. What really worries Hull is that his brother Bell is participating in one way or another.

If this looks thick enough with psychological awe around family bonds and shocks, it is very bad: “The Monkey” is a fatal killer comedy about how we all come, with nothing to celebrate the material and gray gray. James, who tells the childhood part, is a disorganized presence on the screen, as if he was not sure of the type of movie in which he is. But it is never enough to make us care or laugh. As with the unusual MASLANY, and in an indiscriminate scene, Elijah Wood (plays the role of Petey’s wife to Be-To-Bee), James is no longer a representative of the human being than a bright bright color that chases his existence.

As usual, this author deserves to be better abroad. A treacherous horror movie may have really found a way to use bloody humor as a note of a nervous grace to make up for what is painful about our strong impotence. But sometimes, movies such as “The Monkey” can only see suitable to overcome games.