Every great change that the monkey brings to the classic short story Stephen King

As stated above, the first half hour (give or take) “monkeys” remains very true to King’s history. In this story, the man, nicknamed Hal Shelbern, removes the house of the deceased relative with the help of his wife and two sons. When digging piles of garbage, the children find a wound toy monkey. Hal in horror sees the doll and for a good reason – it has the power to kill! To make it clear: this is not a situation with Chucky when the doll runs around, bumping on people. Instead, there is some dark supernatural force that radiates from the monkey, leading to various random deaths.

In the plot we find out that the monkey was first purchased by the father of Hara, a merchant who disappeared when Hel was a child. This is a king who reaches out of his own story: when he was young, his own father, also a merchant, gave up his family. Like the king, Hal never know that really It happened to his father – but he suspects that the evil monkey was relevant to it. The Perkins movie changes things a bit here: we treat the gap with his father Hara, played Adam Scott in an unexpected camei, trying to get rid of the monkey, returning it to the foot where he bought it. (Also: the occupation of the father was changed from the Marines to the airline pilot). The monkey eventually causes the death of the owner of the pawnshop, and Scott’s character tries to destroy the toy with a flamethone that (funny) lies. After that, we never see Scott’s character and never know what happened to him. After that, the young hal and his brother -in -law Bill (both played Christian Cowner) inexplicably find the monkey in the closet. The guys soon make a horrific discovery that every time someone twists the key on the back of the monkey, someone else will die (the only “rule” seems to be that the monkey never kills the man who twisted it).

This is somewhat exactly to the story, which is mostly told through retrospectives. In the plot, the adult Hal recalls that the monkey causes several deaths when he was a child, including the death of a nanny halo and his own mother. Perkins keep these details in the movie, but changes them here and there. For example: Nanny Hara in the story is named White, which is also the name of the true babysitter Stephen King as a child. The story shows that shortly after Hel ended the monkey, Bela was killed by her guy who shot her during the dispute. In the film, however, the nanny was renamed Annie Wilks (played Danik Drire). King’s fans recognize this name: this is the name of a psychotic fan of King’s novel “Misery” who played so memorable Oscar Katie Bates owner In the movie “Unhappiness”. Annie’s death in the movie “Monkey” is much more colorful than the shooting: her head accidentally cut off the chef -kapach.

In the plot, the young hal, realizing that the monkey is evil and kills people (and pets), shakes the damn thing in the well and hopes to see her anymore. But I am sure the monkey occurs when Hal is an adult. When the story rises to the end, Hal tries to get rid of the monkey once and for all, immersing it in the lake with the help of the youngest son of Pitty. In the epilogue, it turned out that all the fish in the lake had died mysteriously. But none of this happens in the movie. Instead, Perkins mainly uses Hella’s retrospective as a child during the first half hour of the movie … And then significantly changes the story when Hal is an adult.