Minimalistic horror portraying the in and outs of a seemingly innocent family life that quite frankly made me want to get this film over and done with since the second it started to spiral into madness.
Just pure plotless horror that carries you through an intertwining and inextricable journey with the protagonist, hopefully you don’t have the same fate…
Some redeeming qualities in terms of the acting (Primarily thanks to Sean Connery) and the sound design and so on but otherwise the script and writing is just so so poor that the whole film just feels unnecessary. Characters have no depth whatsoever too lol.
Overall, this is simply just another Cold War film to add to the catalogue, there’s no other way of describing it since it has very little substance to cling onto it.
Osgood Perkins has a unique cinematic vision, that’s for sure but this is very sloppy.
A crude blend of gory humor and unusually un-scary jump scares.
It feels like the director gave up mid film in deciding which direction he wanted to fully take The Monkey into, that is if he even had a clear idea in the first place. Ultimately, what we are presented is with a film that does not fully flesh out what it wants to be. …
