Horror runs in Osgood Perkins’s blood—literally. The son of Psycho’s Anthony Perkins, he blends family trauma with eerie, absurd humor. The Monkey, his latest, turns a Stephen King story into a darkly comedic bloodbath, where a cursed toy monkey triggers bizarrely elaborate deaths. Unlike Longlegs, his 2024 serial killer hit, this one leans into mayhem with a wink. Perkins sees horror as the ultimate freedom—an artful way to confront life’s randomness. As he puts it, “The monkey doesn’t do anything… it’s just there. Like life and death.” Now that’s a bedtime story.

Shout out to my main man, Ralph! Here’s some monkey-related silliness back when we were all sheltering in place in 2020.

A monkey in Japan named Rickey was elected leader of his troop… and then overthrown. Even in the animal kingdom, politics is ruthless.

The loudest monkey in the world, the howler monkey, can be heard from three miles away, just like my next-door neighbor, who I’d love to slap.

Some monkeys have been observed flossing their teeth using strands of hair or grass. Meanwhile, half of humanity still "forgets" to floss regularly.

A group of monkeys is called a troop, which rhymes with poop, which monkeys make from time to time, just like us.