Warning: Some SPOILERS lie ahead for The Monkey! While the film leaves a lot up to the imagination, Oz Perkins has a pretty specific idea of the toy's origins in The Monkey. Written and directed ...

Savannah Hart, 5, from Australia lost her toy monkey Harriet during a tour of the palace with her family Simon Perry is a writer and correspondent at PEOPLE. He has more than 25 years ...

I said: Sign me up. It’s also funny. You can’t take a story about a toy monkey murdering people too seriously. What I love about Oz is that he makes you touch on a truth or a sentimentality ...

In King’s original story, the monkey was one of those eight-inch-high ’60s novelty toys you would crank with a turnkey in the back, which made it jerk around and clap its cymbals. In the movie ...

By comparison, his follow-up The Monkey opts for no-frills realism: it is about a toy monkey that causes hideous deaths. One biff on the snare drum from this grinning primate, and hapless ...

and it all sits on top of real heart.” But unlike in the Stephen King story, the toy monkey rocks a drum In King’s original source material, included in the 1985 short story collection ...