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 killing spree forcing the estranged brothers to confront the cursed toy.
Practical Effects
Gloriously disgusting death sequences, no CGI cop-outs.
Acting
Theo James playing against himself with genuine pathos amid chaos.
Direction
Perkins balances King nostalgia with his own melancholic weirdness.
Director
Osgood Perkins
Theo James
Hal / Bill
Tatiana Maslany
Lois
Christian Convery
Young Hal / Young Bill
Colin O'Brien
Petey
Adam Scott
Captain Petey Shelborn
Elijah Wood
Ted
Rohan Campbell
Thrasher / Ricky
Sarah Levy
Aunt Ida
Osgood Perkins
Uncle Chip
Nicco Del Rio
Rookie Priest
Zia Newton
Dwayne
Kingston Chan
Lt. Pepper
Laura Mennell
Petey's Mom
Corin Clark
Diving Woman
Tess Degenstein
Barbara
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on King's 1980 short story from Skeleton Crew, which Perkins has cited as deeply personal inspiration.
The 1990s sequences deliberately mirror Perkins' own childhood aesthetic, making the family trauma uncomfortably autobiographical.
US
