Movies like The Monkey

“The Monkey (2025) is a 2020s North American slasher‑body‑horror that frames a multigenerational family rupture around a cursed wind‑up toy. It stages sibling estrangement and cyclical violence through high‑contrast chiaroscuro, practical visceral effects, and a time‑skip structure that privileges sustained dread over cheap shocks. The Monkey argues that unresolved family trauma can be literalized as repeated violence, forcing private culpability back into an unavoidable public arena.”