Osgood Perkins' 2025 film "The Monkey" was based on a 1980 short story by Stephen King, but drastically alters the original story's tone. King's rendition was a straightforward horror story about a haunted wind-up monkey toy that, when activated to smash its cymbals together, mysterious summons misfortune. The main character of the story, Hal, figured out the machinations of the monkey as a child, and was perturbed to rediscover the monkey as an adult. The story ends when Hal tosses the toy into a lake. All the fish in the lake die.

Perkins' movie is a little more complex, and a lot funnier. /Film's own Chris Evangelista detailed the many differences between the story and Perkins' film, including a few that might come as a surprise. It seems that Disney owns the copyright to the origina

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