‘The Monkey’ review: This poor man’s ‘Chucky’ isn’t scary or funny

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surprise horror hit “Longlegs,” is a toy chimp that murders somebody every time his little key is turned and he starts to drum.

Creepy Monkey’s not unlike Chucky or M3GAN or Talky Tina from “The Twilight Zone,” except he doesn’t talky. He’s only killy.What’s supposed to generate suspense in the film, but doesn’t ever, is that the mysterious plaything’s operator can’t choose who’s going to get offed.

Only the turner is safe, and each death is otherwise random. And gruesome. Perkins, whose film is based on a Stephen King short story, emulates better splatter horror movies such as “Evil Dead” in his exhausting attempts to out-gross himself.

At one point, a woman falls into a bucket of fish hooks, and her torn-up face catches on fire before she runs outside and gets impaled on a for sale sign.Another man’s head is obliterated by a bowling ball.