‘The Monkey’ Effects Supervisor Talks Adam Scott’s Flame Thrower Obsession, the Brutal Pool Explosion and Osgood Perkins’ Visceral Brand of Filmmaking: It’s Like ‘Robert Zemeckis With a Little Drop of Acid’

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Jack Dunn Is dying funny? Well, the short answer is no. But the long answer is it could be. Just ask visual effects supervisor Edward J.

Douglas. While working on Osgood Perkins‘ latest horror romp, “The Monkey,” he was often told to crank up the humor on the film’s outrageously violent kills. “We were reiterating constantly on different versions of these moments,” Douglas says. “And sometimes, we get notes back when we’re reviewing like, ‘It’s working.

But how can we make this visual effect funnier?’ Which is something I’ve never gotten before.” “The Monkey,” adapted from Stephen King’s short story of the same name, is a blood-soaked meditation on the flippant nature of life and death.

The film follows Hal (Theo James) a reclusive stress case who desperately tries to reconnect with his teenage son while haunted by a wind-up monkey that incites a random (and ridiculous) death whenever the key in its back is turned.