It seems a lot of people are lukewarm to negative on The Monkey. If you thought Longlegs was a clever movie which took a stupid turn, this one is not for you.
The Monkey is a basic grief story as a scaffold for a string of gory freak accidents. It’s held together by two performances; Tatiana Maslany as a (perfectly hammy) strung-out mother, and Theo James as her traumatised adult son. Hal is a man so convinced of his own…
