Osgood Perkins’ Longlegs cannot be promoted to noise

Even a year ago, Osgood Perkins “Longlegs” launched the demonic And put the strategy forecast for anything that may be in his possession after that. Mix mysterious fears smoothly with a skill to find dark comedy in hidden corners (Because there is no small part of the non -brutal Nicholas Cage performance, rocks and winding), Leaving the guaranteed direction of the directors a lot wondering – well, maybe I just – how it can be treated last Dust the horror dust that completely transformed the gears. Instead of a strange deep diving in the most disturbing human identity, what about horror comedy that uses heinous killing and severe violence to find humor in tampering?

This appearance, which challenges expectations, is closer to what we may think of “The Monkey”, which is a laboratory of Stephen King’s short story of the same name. However, it will not take a long time for viewers to realize that this feature looks loosely connected to its source materials as it does with “Longlegs”. After I had a King’s story, I can only eat a stab in how the variables react to the technical license that goes away, far Besides replace the Monkey game called drum storms. Unfortunately, this vast bay also extends to how the “monkey” (or, more accurately, exacerbated) to the previous Perkins voltage. Where “LongLegs” felt really standing and revelation, this follow-up that cannot be escaped from the unpleasant smell-unique or terrible smart, in this.

The most frustrated in the “The Monkey” is that Perkins had the correct idea to rely on the root inherent in the story. After all, there are only a large number of miles that you can get out of the cursed Windup game that brings death to anyone who caught its way while dealing seriously with Po destinations. But excessive correction is far from the opposite end, only opens a set of other problems. Laughter turns into a beating or misses as it kills and sometimes kills themselves. The random arc can never decide whether it will be settled in a lane or another. The text program loses all its momentum by the time when it reaches a conclusion, somehow very messy and has also become. Worse than all of this, that any feeling of fun ends slowly through a ridiculous feeling and ridicule.

In a better world, “The Monkey” will be as an uncomfortable evidence that directors should not be placed in a specific box. Instead, this disappointing chain of hopes may make you a lost opportunities that Perkins will hold his installed power points.

Anyone who has ever lost a member of his family knows that even in the midst of a sad operation he seems to have no end on the horizon, tears can give way to smiles when he is less expected. Osgood Perkins has carried more than a fair tragediesEach one helped form the path that eventually led to the “monkey”. Sometimes, its unintended text appears to be argued, the only thing we can do in the face of our most existential fears is laughter. Yes, this means that this is not only the latest in a long series of horror films about the word “T” for everyone – shock – but its abnormal approach is one of the decisive aspects that separate this from many of its forgetful competitors, at least.

Whatever what can be said about it, the “monkey” can never be forgotten. This is completely clear from the early parts of the movie, which opens with a bloody and bloody introduction (characterized by Adam Scott is exotic in the glorification veil) that determines everything we need to know about the main threat of the film. This also works against it, and from the paradoxes, because it places a high tape of control that is controlled and that the rest of the movie cannot match. If you are following with An absolutely irreplaceable marketing campaign led by NeonYou know the essential essence now. The story begins in the nineties of the last century in New England and follows a quarrelsome Hull and Bill Shilborn (both of which are played by Christian Conferry as children), and the unfortunate dung that ended with that game creeping monkey and its accompanying curse. As if her habit was to appear in places that could not be explained, it was not bad enough to predict a clear relationship.

If you can overcome the colonel dialogue, unconvincing representation, and surplus from Tropies worthyoll during these first thirty minutes or so, things will improve at least at least from there. After 25 years, we join Hull as a absolute and absolute father (who is now played by Theo James) who avoids everyone, including his prominent brother now (who was photographed by James) and his distant son Betty (Colin Operen), in a desperate attempt to preserve his family safe. However, the past has a funny way to catch us, which is a matter of time only before Hull, Beitti and the entire city of Hull were arrested in the wake of this super -serial killer.

On paper, everything was supposed to be about the “monkey” without you. More than that of many other types of mixing, horror tools require the most hands on the wheel, and Perkins seems to be a kind of talent that can ride this impossible thin line. Instead, this watching experience will mostly leave you to swing all the lost opportunities. I tend to adhere to the idea that any specific movie must “teach us” how to watch it, and to communicate intentionally the specific method and stories used by the narrators of the stories used by their ideas. For the better or worse, the “monkey” sows its flag early when a character states that pork, “do not think about it too much.”

The ethics of Laissez-FAIRE flows to every aspect of filmmaking: from visual aesthetic that repeatedly returns to nice lighting and unworthy framing, to one of the single camps that depend excessively on sudden editing pieces or music signals instead of accurate settings and rewards, to excite elements Building the world that refuses to meet as a whole. It can be said that this last part ends up feeling more than that, as Perkins is struggling to fill this story with many interesting or even colored characters. Local exhaustion Ricky (Rohan Campbell), a terrible priest (Niko del Rio) who maintains a series of catastrophic funerals, especially since the scene that Tatiana Malasani is studying as the mother of Louis Al -Shahda among the few members of the team who clearly understand the task here. (Elijah Wood is another, appeared in a comprehensive appearance … albeit before Devour Every inch of the surrounding scene first.) Very different paper on the rest of the movie errors.

“Everyone dies and this is life,” one continues throughout the operating period for 98 minutes. In the context of the film, what appears to be a painful note at the beginning is supposed to play as a deep awareness. The inevitability and depletion of our end is not a good excuse enough to abandon it and its firmness; In fact, this exactly what should motivate us Preserve Living. It is a shameful thing to implement such influential issues that leave a lot of desirable. “The Monkey” is a barrel of blood full of laughter and kills shocking that never finds an effective way to reconcile any of these.

/Film classification: 5 out of 10

“The monkey” opens in theaters February 21, 2025.