Monkey, The (2025)

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Synopsis

Dir: Osgood Perkins. Horror/Comedy. Based on the short story by Stephen King. After discovering a strange toy monkey, twin brothers (Theo James, Christian Convery) begin witnessing a string of horrifying deaths.

Content elements

• Frequent use of the sexual expletive and variations in a non-sexual context; frequent use of scatalogical slang, cursing, profanity, vulgar expressions, and sexual slurs
• Infrequent use of sexual language and references - little detail
• Frequent portrayals of weapons and gun violence - much blood and gory detail; infrequent portrayals of hand-to-hand violence - no blood, little detail
• Frequent portrayals of gory scenes including corpses, dismemberment, and decapitation - much blood and gory detail
• Infrequent portrayals of tobacco use in a recreational context

Thematic elements

• Sibling rivalry
• The unexplained
• Coping with loss

Classification rationale

Rated 14A for frequent gory scenes, violence, and coarse language

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