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The Monkey's Osgood Perkins on Stephen King, Humor, and Those Final Destination Comparisons

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The Monkey is a Stephen King short story and a horror movie.

Writer-director Osgood Perkins says he wanted to be in reverence of the author.

He says he didn't want to approach an evil toy monkey movie with a straight face.

Perkins: "It fits in with Creepshow and Misery as being sort of the fancifully funny ones".

Perkins: "I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Final Destination movie, to be honest" Perkins: I wanted this to feel like a King thing, so I wanted to use as many uncanny elements as I could.

The Monkey hits theaters February 21 .