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Osgood Perkins' The Monkey, the new feature film based on a Stephen King story, is heading to theaters this month. Ahead of its arrival, a first look at an official popcorn bucket for the bonkers horror film has been revealed.

Per Nerdist, new images have been unveiled for the popcorn bucket for The Monkey. This is a significant change from the norm, as popcorn buckets are usually reserved for big-budget blockbusters, making it rare for indie horror films to get their own. This even marks the first time ever that the indie studio Neon has partnered up with AMC Theatres to create an official popcorn bucket for a film. It will only be available at AMC Theatres locations, and it comes with a large popcorn for $44.99 plus tax. The 85-ounce popcorn bucket is stylized to look just like the monkey toy that's at the heart of the film, and it...

Stephen King doesn’t miss. The author has penned many a story that have inspired movies, that on their part have inspired both fear and awe from the fans. The Monkey is no different.

While The Shining is considered one of the most well-known adaptations of King’s works, the 2025 release is no pushover either. The Monkey could very well be set to seal its place in the history books for breaching a record that not many Stephen King movies have managed to do.

The Monkey seems to have set the bar high The Monkey is the latest in the line of Stephen King adaptations out to scare fans left, right, and center || Image by Kevin Payravi, licensed under Cc By-sa 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

It all began in 1976 with Carrie. That was the first Stephen King story to be adapted into a live-action film. And there was no turning back...

The Monkey director Osgood Perkins has confirmed just how violent the upcoming Stephen King adaptation will be, teasing expectations for the horror-comedy. The Monkey's story focuses on twin brothers, Hal and Bill (Theo James), who are forced to confront a toy monkey whose curse causes someone to die every time it bangs its cymbals together. Unlike Perkins' previous film, Longlegs, hailed for its slow-burn terror, the King adaptation is a horror-comedy, expected to utilize wild deaths as part of its funny moments. This gives it a very different tone to the director's prior work.

Speaking with Empire, Perkins revealed The Monkey's death sequences will include a lot of blood, with plenty of over-the-top, gory kills to compliment its horror-comedy elements. The director explained how some deaths would involve more blood than is possible for a person to have in their body, hyping a "Rube Goldbergian connectivity" to the set-pieces. He...

Back in March, we heard that production had wrapped on the Stephen King adaptation The Monkey, which is coming our way from the team of producer / genre regular James Wan and director Osgood Perkins, whose credits include The Blackcoat’s Daughter (a.k.a. February), I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, Gretel & Hansel, and the recent Nicolas Cage horror film Longlegs (you can read our review Here). Longlegs was released by Neon – and they’ll also be giving The Monkey a theatrical release on February 21, 2025. And now, as a spooky Christmas treat, Neon has put out a new clip guaranteed to send some shivers down your spine.

A little while ago Entertainment Weekly unveiled a batch of images from the film (plus a behind-the-scenes image), and those can be seen at the bottom of this article.

Perkins wrote the screenplay for The Monkey, working from a King short story.