Allgood marketed a plush marsupial inspired by President William Howard Taft. But children thought the toy looked “too much like a rat,” and it sold poorly Howard Dorre “If ‘Teddy Bear ...

PAWTUCKET, R.I.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAS), a leading games, IP and toy company, today announced that Transformers One Power Flip Optimus Prime (Orion Pax) – an action figure ...

Which Winnie-the-Pooh toy is best? Deep in the Hundred Acre Wood are the lovable characters many grew up with. That “silly old bear” is a symbol of childhood for many people and just having a ...

Based on the short story by acclaimed horror writer Stephen King, “The Monkey” follows Hal Shelburn (Theo James) as he attempts to escape the incessant presence of a malevolent toy monkey brought home ...

If you read Stephen King's 1980 short story "The Monkey" and went into Osgood Perkins' new movie "The Monkey" expecting basically the same thing, I have some bad news for you. Perkins' absurdist ...

In the short story and the film, the monkey playing its instrument is always followed by a gruesome freak accident, and despite attempts to bury or destroy the “toy,” it always manages to come ...

As Season 3 of HBO’s hit series “The White Lotus” relocates to Thailand, it follows its established formula: a cold open at inevitable death — gunshots interrupt a meditation session ...

revolves around an old monkey toy found in an attic. Reviews have been good (77% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes), though audiences were less impressed, giving it a C+ CinemaScore. Horror films ...

In dissociating the toy from the people around it, King finds optimism even in the short story’s murky ending. For Perkins, The Monkey is nothing without stupid and spiteful people there to use it.

On Jan. 25, famed horror author Stephen King posted on Threads, “You’ve never seen anything like THE MONKEY. It’s batshit insane. As someone who has indulged in batshittery from time to time, I say ...

Theo pulls double-duty as both Hal and Bill Shelburne, the twin brothers haunted by the "Organ Grinder Monkey" toy that their estranged father (played by Severance's Adam Scott) brought home as a ...

It stars Theo James as twin brothers Hal and Bill Shelburn, whose lives are thrown into chaos when a cursed toy monkey starts killing people that cross Hal and Bill's path. Now, they have to try ...