The best horror movies to watch if you like the monkey

Summary

• The monkey Is Osgood Perkin's latest horror movie based on a short story in Stephen King.

• The film combines horror with dark comedy through absurd kills and cursed toys.

• Viewers who enjoy The monkey Can also like that other wild horror take on the genre.

The monkey Is Osgood Perkin's latest horror movie after the 2024 Long. It is an adaptation of a short story in Stephen King and James Wan, a newer horror master, helped to produce it. The film starts with two twin brothers, Hal and Bill Shelburn and witnessed several murders after revealing an old toy of their father in 1999.

Decades later, the toy seems to be devastated again in their lives even after they buried it as a child. While frightening, The monkey Also played for laughter thanks to the absurdity of some of the murders. Viewers who liked it in the theater can also enjoy these wilds take the horror genre. Evil toys, childhood traumas, damned families, dark comedies and more are in the future.

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Beetle juice

A model home

Beetle juice Is a horror comedy about the everyday life of death and becoming a ghost. The film opens with Adam and Barbara Maitland who die in a car accident, doomed to live in their house too close to eternity before they can move on. This would be okay if they were alone, but instead they also have to deal with new owners, Deetz, who arrange their things.

Operated by these new conditions, they are thinking of hiring a poltergeist named Beetlejuice who lives in a model city of Adam built before his death, and chaos follows from there. Beetle juice Is an hour Burton miracle that probably doesn't need that much explanation, but the fact remains that it is a classic.

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It follows

Always use protection

It follows is a metaphor for the dangers of engaging in romantic partners without proper care and protection. Most modern horror movies like to use allegories for conditions to tell their stories, and this is one of the scariest of gangs.

It has a curse whose origin is unknown, but those affected will transfer this curse to their romantic partners. When a ghost -like device that can take on which form is infected comes a spooky device that can take on any person and ultimately kill them given the chance. Even if someone lives in Minnesota and moves to Japan, the ghost will find them, just like the cursed monkey in The monkey.

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Long

When is your birthday little girl?

For those who missed it, Long was the last movie Osgood Perkins directed before The monkey. It follows the FBI agent Lee Harker when she stumbles on a paranormal case in the department. Someone has cheated fathers into murdering their families around the time for their daughters, just for the real killer to leave a coded note that takes credit, which Lee eventually puts together.

She also finds a doll at one of the murder houses that has a mysterious orb inside. How it relates to the overall case requires a spoiler, but let's just say that it is unpredictable, much like Nicolas Cage's performance because the code name Longlegs is unpredictable and uninterrupted in the film.

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Needy things

The devil is in the details

There are many amazing article-based Stephen King adaptations worth highlighting after seeing The monkey, but Needy things Sticks out the most. Like many King settings, the film begins in the small town of Castle Rock.

A new shop owner moves in and gives the inhabitants of this sleepy village with things they want most with seemingly no catch. The trick is that these articles are cursed, which makes the owners more evil of the day. At the end of the film, the city is practically destroying itself because everyone goes cuckoo for consumerism.

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Piranha 3D

No stranger to horror

Piranha 3D is an absurdist remake, or more as a conversion, of Piranha From 1978. It takes place around the spring trip when college children are at its worst, and in this beach environment a crew tries to make an adult film.

Things go wrong when people start to die to Korpspiranhas, which is when a group of scientists are called in to deal with the problem. Think Jaws If it was bloodier and more fun. Piranha 3D is a good recommendation for those who love gore and comedy mixed and because Adam Scott is in it (he makes cards a performance The monkey), it makes an ideal companion to 2025's latest horror comedy.

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Ready or not

Should have signed a prenup

Ready or not takes place in a mansion after Alex and Grace get married. Alex belongs to a board game empire and his family invites them to the family's mansion to play a game to celebrate their promises, as well as their family tradition. It's a little oorto, but Grace agrees and unfortunately she chooses the wrong game: hide.

Alex's family, revealed, is cursed by tradition, and they have to kill the bride by a newly married family member, otherwise they will all die. The film then becomes a cat-and-mouse game where Grace is desperately trying to hide from family members trying to kill her. Is the curse real? That is the big question.

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Society

There are no words

Society is a difficult movie to describe in addition to calling it a physiological thriller without destroying too much. Bill is an ordinary teenager who feels out with his parents, who seems to love his sister more. Bill continues to see strange stuff but thinks there is just a trick in the eyes. People around the city also start to act strange, which makes Bill think otherwise.

Is it all in Bill's head or something happens? Let's just say that Bill's family hides something and when things hit a boiling point, viewers will not be able to connect the horror that is within. There is absolutely nothing as the highlight of SocietySo don't look at it too much more and just look at it instead.

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Vivarium

Caught in everyday life

Vivarium Is a smaller horror movie from 2019 that probably has not seen. It plays a school teacher, Gemma and her caretaker, Tom, who decides to look at a new suburban plot outside the city. Their travel guide is a bit strange, as are cookies that they are touring, which appear to be in untouched order, albeit abandoned.

Their guide eventually sneaks away, and the two are caught in suburban shelf and cannot escape. In addition, they get a child in a box to raise who looks and sounds like Damien from Omen franchise. To call Vivarium Weird would be an understatement, but it is captivating from minute one.