"Everybody dies, and that's life," Hal and Bill's mother Lois tells them after their babysitter Annie Wilkes (a neat, not-so-subtle nod to Stephen King's Misery) gets into a grisly accident at a teppanyaki restaurant.

You might think you know Osgood Perkins, but The Monkey is about to prove you wrong. The result is a movie that feels refreshingly new for Perkins, yet is knowingly familiar with this gleefully ghoulish and grubby brand of horror.

The Monkey, Osgood Perkins's highly-anticipated adaptation of Stephen King's short story, is being released soon, and King shared his thoughts.

T hough critics have long tried to put the work of Stephen King in a box, the reality is that there is immense diversity to be found in adaptations of his writing. The author is b