The Monkey(2025)
2025 · Osgood Perkins · 97 min
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.
Horror · Comedy
6.01.4k votes
TMDB score
3/5
Intensity
5/5
Gore
1/5
Stays with you
How The Monkey scares
Watching this feels like being in on a sick joke more than being scared, with each death staged as a gruesome punchline rather than a real threat to your nerves. The pacing bounces between family drama and sudden, absurdly over-the-top kill scenes, so you're never sitting in dread for long before something ridiculous and bloody happens. The blood and body horror are turned way up, but it's played broad and silly instead of grim, so it lands more as a gross-out comedy than something that will haunt you. Good for people who like their horror loud, gory, and laughing at itself rather than looking for genuine scares.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, The Monkey rates psychological 1/5, visceral 3/5, gore 5/5, lingering effect 1/5, and overall intensity 3/5.
- Psychological: 1 of 5
- Visceral: 3 of 5
- Gore: 5 of 5
- Lingering: 1 of 5
- Intensity: 3 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 35 of 100 — leans Slow burn
Supernatural vs Real-world: 12 of 100 — leans Supernatural
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 15 of 100 — leans Fun-scary
Intensity over runtime
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A gleefully sick, sawtooth ride of sudden gory jolts and dark comic breathers that ramps into a chaotic, blood-soaked finish.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 1, 2, 3, 2, 3, 4, 2, 1, 3, 4, 4, 5.
How scary is The Monkey?
On The Horror Database's 0–5 intensity scale, The Monkey rates 3/5 — solidly scary, building its fear through slow-burn dread rather than shocks. It attacks the body more than the mind — physical, in-your-face horror. Expect it to be heavy on gore and fun-first. The dread fades once the credits roll.
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