Os Perkins delivers a Christmas treat

The Monkey – Stephen King’s latest adaptation – has a brand new clip revealed as a spooky Christmas treat.

Back in March, we learned that production on the Stephen King adaptation had wrapped The monkeywhich comes to us from the team of producer/genre regular James Wan and director Osgood Perkins, whose credits include: The Blackcoat’s daughter (also known as February), I’m the pretty one who lives in the house, Gretel and Hanseland the current horror film by Nicolas Cage Long legs (You can read our review HERE). Long legs was published by Neon – and they will be there too The monkey a cinema release on February 21, 2025. And now, as a spooky Christmas treat, Neon has released a new clip that’s guaranteed to give you goosebumps.

A while back, Entertainment Weekly published a series of images from the film (plus a behind-the-scenes image), which can be seen at the end of this article.

Perkins wrote the screenplay for The monkeybased on a King short story. The film will tell the following story: When twin brothers Hal and Bill discover their father’s old monkey toy in the attic, a series of gruesome deaths occur around them. The brothers decide to throw the monkey away and move on with their lives, growing further apart as the years go by. But when the mysterious deaths begin again, the brothers must reunite to find a way to finally destroy the monkey before it takes the lives of everyone around them.

Theo James (The White Lotus) plays the twins in later years, while Christian Convery (sweet tooth) she plays at a young age. Also in the cast are Elijah Wood (The Lord of the Rings), Tatiana Maslany (She–Hulk: lawyer), Colin O’Brien (Wonka), Rohan Campbell (Halloween ends) and Sarah Levy (Schitt’s Creek). The Entertainment Weekly article reveals that Maslany plays Hal and Bill’s mother; Wood plays Ted Hammerman, who is married to Hal’s ex-wife and threatens to adopt Hal’s son; Levy plays Hal and Bill’s aunt, who raises the boys as children and also appears in the later timeline. There is also a picture of Nicco Del Rio (Chilling adventures of Sabrina) as a priest.

James Wan and Michael Clear produce The monkey for Atomic Monster, while Jason Cloth and Dave Caplan are producing for C2 Motion Picture Group. Executive producers include Automatik’s Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Fred Berger, Stars Collective’s Peter Luo and Nancy Xu, Black Bear’s John Friedberg and Chris Ferguson. Atomic Monster and Stars Collective developed the project and C2 Motion Picture Group provided financing.

Wan previously made the following statement: “Stephen King is the godfather of the horror genre. He was a huge influence on me as a child and throughout my career and it was always a dream to help bring one of his stories to life. The monkey is a personal favorite with its simple, iconic and incredibly marketable concept. And I can’t think of anyone better to bring this to life than a visionary and lifelong genre fan like Osgood.“

In addition to directing the films mentioned above in this article, Perkins also directed an episode of the recent revival of The twilight zone. He also contributed to the scripts for the thriller distancethe crime thriller The night comes coldand the horror film The girl in the photos.

Are you looking forward to it? The monkey? Check out the pictures, check out Entertainment Weekly’s article, and let us know by leaving a comment below.