{"id":1077,"date":"2025-03-12T12:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T18:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/falkontheatre.com\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2025-03-12T12:06:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T18:06:16","slug":"the-monkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/falkontheatre.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/12\/the-monkey\/","title":{"rendered":"The Monkey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Are you a Stephen King fan? Well, this weekend (March 14-16) we have a treat for you. We are going to be showing The Monkey based on a Stephen King story. Showtimes are Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 8:00PM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>When twin brothers find a mysterious wind-up monkey, a series of outrageous deaths tears their family apart. Twenty-five years later, the monkey begins a new killing spree, forcing the estranged siblings to confront the cursed toy.<br><br>Cruelly clever with some unforgettably gory set pieces,\u00a0<em>The Monkey<\/em>\u00a0reaffirms director Osgood Perkins&#8217; horror bona fides while revealing he also has a surprising &#8212; albeit sick &#8212; sense of humor.<br><br>Rating: (Language Throughout | Gore | Some Sexual References | Strong Violent Content)<br><br>Runtime: 1h 38m<br><br>Here is what reviewer Richard Crouse had to say about it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201dDirector Osgood Perkins channels his inner Sam \u201cEvil Dead\u201d Raimi, combining old school splatter with very dark humor. It makes for a giddy goodtime, especially as the kills get more and more slapsticky and outlandish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Monkey\u201d does feel stretched from its short story origins to feature film, but Perkins keeps the energy up and the storytelling efficient <a><\/a>enough to warrant its 97-minute runtime.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you a Stephen King fan? Well, this weekend (March 14-16) we have a treat for you. We are going to be showing The Monkey&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1060,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-info"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/falkontheatre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/falkontheatre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/falkontheatre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/falkontheatre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/falkontheatre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/falkontheatre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1078,"href":"https:\/\/falkontheatre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions\/1078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/falkontheatre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/falkontheatre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/falkontheatre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/falkontheatre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}