The Monkey director Osgood Perkins says the upcoming horror movie is gory to the acute: There’s plenty of mess.”
We’ve obtained extra Osgood Perkins to look ahead to with The Monkey, however the director has teased that the upcoming horror movie will likely be very totally different from Longlegs. Not solely that, however it’s going to be gory in an over-the-top manner.
“If you’re going for comedy then you’re going for extremes. Not subtlety,” Perkins instructed Empire. “We are guilty of putting far more blood in our human bodies than is really in a human body. When someone explodes in this movie — and a couple of people do — there’s a lot of mess. All the death set-pieces were hard to do. They all have a Rube Goldbergian connectivity — this happens, then this happens, then this happens…” The movie has already earned an R score for “strong bloody violent content, gore, language throughout and some sexual references.” Deliver on the exploding people!
Perkins continued, “I actually really feel f***ing nice about [how different The Monkey is from Longlegs]. I can’t consider one other morbidly surreal horror comedy that’s additionally heartwarming and redemptive and stars a bona-fide film hunk. That’s one of the best information I can provide to individuals who favored Longlegs — we make all types. Why would anybody need to be fed the identical meal on daily basis?“
Primarily based on the brief story by Stephen King, The Monkeys stars Theo James (The White Lotus) as twin brothers Hal and Invoice. After discovering “their father’s old monkey toy in the attic, a series of gruesome deaths start occurring all around them. The brothers decide to throw the monkey away and move on with their lives, growing apart over the years. But when the mysterious deaths begin again, the brothers must reunite to find a way to destroy the monkey for good before it takes the lives of everyone close to them.” Written and directed by Osgood Perkins, the movie additionally stars Tatiana Maslany (She-Hulk: Lawyer at Legislation), Elijah Wooden (Maniac), Christian Convery (Candy Tooth), Colin O’Brien (Wonka), Rohan Campbell (Halloween Ends) and Sarah Levy (Schitt’s Creek).
The Monkey will hit theaters on February twenty first.
