Saturday, February 22, 2025

Official popcorn bucket for The Monkey, and Longlegs starring Maika Monroe is streaming on Hulu/Disney+





Spoiler for Longlegs, which I liked: It's probably a lot less frustrating if you go in understanding there's a...



supernatural explanation.




Also, here's a review of the new movie:
Writer-director Osgood Perkins’ wild new adaptation of “The Monkey” is the funniest movie I’ve seen in months — a marathon of sicko gallows humor that expands and expounds upon the short story in ways both irreverent and playfully profound. It’s a cathartically comic burlesque of gag-inducing set-pieces, rivaling the “Final Destination” films for Rube Goldberg-inspired, contraption-like death scenes. God help me, I laughed like a hyena.

And an interview with the director, the first question also highlights the humor: 

Filmmaker: There’s such a cheerfully mean-spirited sense of humor to this film; that The Monkey is so playful and comedic almost makes it feel reactive to Longlegs, which is also quite funny but in a more guarded, opaque manner. Do you see it that way?

Perkins: You know, I don’t. 

They watched the movie with real morticians to get opinions on the deaths:





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