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  1. Got around to watching 'The Monkey' last night, which I expected to be just mid, given the low ratings, but ended up hugely enjoying it! Apparently, Osgood Perkins approached the film as a personal exploration of using absurdity to dispel petty dark stuff, inspired by the stark ways he lost both parents. Not in a nihilistic way; more like banishing the heaviness through dark humour. I know this is a very specific angle that, understandably, might not appeal to everyone, but for me it clicked.

    The movie is gory and unhinged, and the dry humour fits well into the story. Generally, horror-comedy is a pretty hard genre to nail, but Perkins managed to find an ideal balance here. It's pretty different in tone to 'Longlegs' and to Stephen King's original short story, but I think it justifiably got King's blessings regardless.

    #TheMonkey #Horror #Movies #CineMastodon #FilmMastodon #StephenKing #CatsOfMastodon #Cats #cat #Floof

  2. Got around to watching 'The Monkey' last night, which I expected to be just mid, given the low ratings, but ended up hugely enjoying it! Apparently, Osgood Perkins approached the film as a personal exploration of using absurdity to dispel petty dark stuff, inspired by the stark ways he lost both parents. Not in a nihilistic way; more like banishing the heaviness through dark humour. I know this is a very specific angle that, understandably, might not appeal to everyone, but for me it clicked.

    The movie is gory and unhinged, and the dry humour fits well into the story. Generally, horror-comedy is a pretty hard genre to nail, but Perkins managed to find an ideal balance here. It's pretty different in tone to 'Longlegs' and to Stephen King's original short story, but I think it justifiably got King's blessings regardless.

    #TheMonkey #Horror #Movies #CineMastodon #FilmMastodon #StephenKing #CatsOfMastodon #Cats #cat #Floof

  3. Superkultur-podcastens årsrevy 2025, del 1

    Hvori værterne traver deres podcast-snilde i gang igen efter en lang pause, og gaber over et år som føles som et lille årti. Det har været et år i skuffelsernes tegn, og det er kun på den superkulturelle front! Første del af to.

    Download her eller abonnér på podcastens RSS-feed!

    Hvad har vi set i år?

    Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu

    The ugly stepsister

    The Monkey
    plus andre film af Oz Perkins:

    • The blackcoat’s daughter
    • I am the pretty thing that lives in the house
    • Longlegs

    Weapons

    • Se også instruktørens tidligere film, Barbarian

    Companion

    28 years later

    Guillermo del Toros Frankenstein

    Lyttersegment

    Tak til Simon Justesen for hans indspark, som ledte os til at snakke Star Trek:

    ↬mstdn.dk/@simonjust/115752995465403278

    Redaktionelt

    Vi har ikke lært en skid af forrige afsnit, og også dette afsnit er optaget over Zoom. Som et ekstra benspænd ringede en af os ind på mobil fra et sommerhus i det nordjyske, og der kan derfor være enkelte udfald i lyden. Vi har prøvet at udbedre det i redigeringen, og håber ikke, det forstyrrer forståelsen af samtalen.

    Denne gang har vi brugt musik af Matt Oakley (The incredible shrinking Larry) og Dee Yan-Key (Finis Comoediae). Begge er tilgængelige fra Free Music Archive under CC-Attribution-licensen.

    #28YearsLater #Companion #CosmosPanoptikon #Frankenstein #GuillermoDelToro #horror #Nosferatu #NosferatusSkygge #OsgoodPerkins #PanosCosmatos #podcast #scienceFiction #TheMonkey #TheUglyStepsister #tilbageblik #Weapons
  4. Superkultur-podcastens årsrevy 2025, del 1

    Hvori værterne traver deres podcast-snilde i gang igen efter en lang pause, og gaber over et år som føles som et lille årti. Det har været et år i skuffelsernes tegn, og det er kun på den superkulturelle front! Første del af to.

    Download her eller abonnér på podcastens RSS-feed!

    Hvad har vi set i år?

    Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu

    The ugly stepsister

    The Monkey
    plus andre film af Oz Perkins:

    • The blackcoat’s daughter
    • I am the pretty thing that lives in the house
    • Longlegs

    Weapons

    • Se også instruktørens tidligere film, Barbarian

    Companion

    28 years later

    Guillermo del Toros Frankenstein

    Lyttersegment

    Tak til Simon Justesen for hans indspark, som ledte os til at snakke Star Trek:

    ↬mstdn.dk/@simonjust/115752995465403278

    Redaktionelt

    Vi har ikke lært en skid af forrige afsnit, og også dette afsnit er optaget over Zoom. Som et ekstra benspænd ringede en af os ind på mobil fra et sommerhus i det nordjyske, og der kan derfor være enkelte udfald i lyden. Vi har prøvet at udbedre det i redigeringen, og håber ikke, det forstyrrer forståelsen af samtalen.

    Denne gang har vi brugt musik af Matt Oakley (The incredible shrinking Larry) og Dee Yan-Key (Finis Comoediae). Begge er tilgængelige fra Free Music Archive under CC-Attribution-licensen.

    #28YearsLater #Companion #CosmosPanoptikon #Frankenstein #GuillermoDelToro #horror #Nosferatu #NosferatusSkygge #OsgoodPerkins #PanosCosmatos #podcast #scienceFiction #TheMonkey #TheUglyStepsister #tilbageblik #Weapons
  5. #31DaysOfHorror day 16 and #themonkey is up. Part ultra visceral Final Destination, part bizarre black comedy, part ode to the acceptance of death.

    🎃 🎃 🎃 🎃 /5

    #31daysofhalloween #horror #film #movies

  6. Movie TV Tech Geeks #Exclusives #SciFi #ShortFilm #TheMonkey ‘Longlegs’ and ‘The Monkey’s VFX Supervisor Directs and Drops Two Twisty Sci-Fi Shorts [Exclusive] dlvr.it/TN9kHN

  7. #TheMonkey #Hulu #StephenKing
    From Stephen King, the new horror comedy film The Monkey is now streaming on Hulu.

    The Monkey | Official Trailer | Hulu

    "When twin brothers find a mysterious wind-up monkey, a series of outrageous deaths tear their family apart. Twenty-five years later, the monkey begins a new ..."
    youtu.be/KPxmK_ihDO8?si=stp-DS

  8. The Monkey (2025)

    finally, finally someone has had the guts to adapt a King story as a comedy-horror for the first time since Creepshow (?) and it feels so right

    just a joy start to finish if you enjoy a good squelchy comedy horror a la Ready Or Not or Bodies Bodies Bodies in recent years. while I enjoyed Osgood Perkins' Longlegs well enough last year, this is great and I'm already sure will be on my shortlist for best horror of the year. easy A from me

    #horror #film #MovieReview #TheMonkey

  9. The Monkey (2025)

    finally, finally someone has had the guts to adapt a King story as a comedy-horror for the first time since Creepshow (?) and it feels so right

    just a joy start to finish if you enjoy a good squelchy comedy horror a la Ready Or Not or Bodies Bodies Bodies in recent years. while I enjoyed Osgood Perkins' Longlegs well enough last year, this is great and I'm already sure will be on my shortlist for best horror of the year. easy A from me

    #horror #film #MovieReview #TheMonkey

  10. CW: "The Monkey" Review - ★★

    Call me old-fashioned but I think "some the gnarliest kills in a horror movie" is pretty much fully negated by all of them being extremely poorly done CGI.

    #Movies #TheMonkey letterboxd.com/rodhilton/film/

  11. Stephen King is right. #TheMonkey really is batsh*t insane. While I personally didn't find it too engaging, I do respect what the film is trying to do. It's a movie that takes risk, even if it results in divided opinions. You may or may not enjoy it, but the film will surely stay with you.

  12. ‘The Monkey’ Effects Supervisor Talks Adam Scott’s Flame Thrower Obsession, the Brutal Pool Explosion and Osgood Perkins’ Visceral Brand of Filmmaking: It’s Like ‘Robert Zemeckis With a Little Drop of Acid’
    #Variety #News #OsgoodPerkins #TheMonkey

    variety.com/2025/film/news/the