Osgood Perkins, director of ‘Longlegs,’ is now tackling one of Stephen King’s most famous short stories.
are partnering on a single film. Would a “dream team” of horror greats technically be considered a nightmare team?.
Neon didn’t provide an official synopsis for the film, but the King story is about a pair of brothers who find one of those old-fashioned cymbal-crashing monkey toys in the attic of a family member’s house. It turns out that this monkey has a long history in the brothers’ family going back generations — and seems to be cursed so that any time it bangs its cymbals together, someone dies.
Of course, that was a short story and this is a feature film, so the final movie may deviate from the source material. by Neon, has become one of the biggest hits of the summer movie season. The film has already grossed more than $90 million worldwide, making it the top-grossing film in Neon’s history.
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