The Monkey director calls Stephen King film 'Robert Zemeckis on ecstasy' (exclusive)

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'The Monkey' director Oz Perkins calls his Stephen King movie 'Robert Zemeckis on ecstasy,' meaning, 'It's a kids' movie that's rated R.'

Nick is an entertainment journalist based in New York, NY. If you like pugs and the occasional blurry photo of an action figure, follow him on Twitter @NickARomano.."It's a very playful comedy with a lot of really excessive gore, language. It's a kids' movie that's rated R."is the story of twins Hal and Bill, who discover their father's monkey toy in the attic as boys. Strange deaths start occurring all around them, prompting the brothers to throw the toy away.

, and I wanted the movie to feel like a Stephen King movie to really honor the guy. I mean, he's the most significant writer...ever? In any genre, prolifically, just in terms of impact. Certainly for the horror genre, whether it be literature or movies, there's no one who's contributed more. So it's time to really honor the dude. I really made a movie that I hoped he would like.", will be released in theaters July 12 by the same distributor.

"It was a personality that was haunting the periphery of a lot of things that I was trying to start to write or wondering about," he says of Cage's killer in. "He was this thing that was coming in and out of shops with the ring of a bell. You'd see the guy and then he'd leave. Then I had this other thing where he would drive up to people's houses on their kids' birthdays and bring out stuffed animals and little child-sized pianos and put on a little show.

 

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