so, a third visit to the cinema for me this year (2025). and one which feasibly could be the last of the year, look you see. more on that as i ramble on, but for clarification it was (a month or so ago) that i went to go and see, as the title of this post suggests, The Monkey.
for those of you in some sort of rush, or just wish to avoid any (and all) possible spoilers, yes, this film was really good. how good? very. the best way i can describe it is like a classical 80s horror film, yet informed a sort of "meta" knowing homage of this peculiar century. quite extremely yet comically graphic with gore every now and then, so be warned, but well worth it.
plot? two brothers who(m) are not particularly keen on each other come to inherit, from their father, a wind up drum playing monkey. eventually, via some unfortunate events (note that comical but still rather graphic gore and violence warning earlier) they come to the conclusion that the monkey is either cursed or just plain evil. attempts are made to either rid the world of it or see if they can't harness the power of the monkey to do their bidding........
it was, as a priority mention, wonderful to watch this with a cinema audience. somewhat similar to that time i went and saw the brilliance of The Substance, the "violence" was so insane, out there and graphic i could tell the audience like me were at first gasping, unsure if it was appropriate to do so, and then we more or less all had to laugh at some of it. especially, i suppose, the pool bit. back in the 80s i suppose it would have been that me and my mates would have rented this with enthusiasm (no doubt it would have featured in an imported copy of Fangoria), watched, laughed and then rewound the tape to watch the bits we just laughed at again.
just a generally well paced, effective dark horror comedy for slightly north of 90 minutes. absolutely well worth watching and i am not convinced it really needs all that much more of a review.
yes, indeed, it was once again off to the joys of the Ealing Project cinema to see this one. on a Tuesday of course, as that's when the tickets are cheaper if not precisely half price. for refreshments i went a slightly bit more modest. from what i recall i got the "large" coke but just the "middle size" popcorn. as i am no longer (or no more) going to that there London (innit) for verk this may well have been my last visit to the place. or any cinema, since the ones near me (except for a community one which seems to show only children's films for holidays and well meaning stuff that i have no interest in) are all but impossible to get to without a farcically expensive bus trip and a mile walk (each way) to get to the cinema after that. oh well.
rather unlikely that anyone is here to read this for either my plight (see previous paragraph) or trivia, but if you have an interest in the latter, yes this film was based on a Stephen King short story. weirdly in the novel the (cursed) monkey played cymbals, but so many films have paid homage to that since they decided to switch to drums to make it a bit different. that this has happened so frequently to motivate the change perhaps tells you just how good the source material, and this film, are.
trailers for other films that i would have liked to go to the cinema to see but shall now have to probably wait for the video to come out included Mickey 17, which does look class, Death Of A Unicorn, which looks insane, and oddly Minecraft, with me being more impressed with the general premise and what i saw in the trailer than i had expected to be.
be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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