Do you want to know if The Monkey has any post-credits scenes? We’ll tell you right here: There are no extra scenes after the credits of the film, but there is a special surprise worth sticking around for.
Be sure to check back on Friday for full spoilers for The Monkey.
Riding off the high of last year’s horror hit Longlegs, writer-director Osgood Perkins is at it again with The Monkey, an adaptation of a Stephen King short story about a toy monkey that causes all kinds of horrific situations. Produced by horror maestro James Wan, and endorsed by King himself as “batshit insane,” Perkins’ The Monkey is full of hilarious, gory, memorable tragedy.
“The thing is, humor and horror are Siamese twins,” King recently told IGN’s Tom Jorgensen. “They’re very close. I think that it stops being funny when it starts being you.”
King compares the film to more like a Creepshow or Tales From the Crypt rather than a straight horror movie. “Oz [Perkins] is right when he says that the deaths are like Wile E. Coyote,” he says of The Monkey’s often explosive murders. “Man, there are a couple of things in this movie that just made me howl. I mean, I just sort of hate myself for howling, but I howled nonetheless.”
Theo James stars in the dual role of twin brothers Hal and Bill Shelburn (with young actor Christian Convery doing a yeoman’s job playing the adolescent versions of the characters in flashback). After stumbling upon an old-fashioned toy monkey, the brothers quickly realize that every time the cursed thing is activated, someone, somewhere, dies. Despite their best efforts to get away from the monkey, or bend it to their will at least, a lot of people bite it… a lot of the time. Spectacularly.
Does The Monkey Have a Post-Credits Scene?
As noted above, The Monkey doesn’t have any scenes after or during the credits, but there is reportedly a special surprise awaiting fans of Perkins’ work. While Neon didn’t attach any bonus scenes to versions of the film that screened at festivals or for critics, Total Film reports that the wide release includes a teaser trailer for Perkins’ next horror film, The Keeper. So it’s worth sticking around after the credits, even if there’s no post-credits scene for The Monkey itself.
We’ll have more on The Monkey on Friday, including Tom’s full spoiler chat with King, Perkins, and Wan, so be sure to check back then!
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