Released in 2025, The Monkey has found a new audience on streaming, reaching the top of the HBO Max movie rankings in Romania after recently entering the platform’s Top 10. The film is also performing strongly across several other Central and Eastern European markets.

Directed and written by Osgood Perkins, the filmmaker behind Longlegs, the movie is based on King’s short story of the same name. It follows twin brothers Hal and Bill, whose childhood takes a terrifying turn after they discover a mysterious wind-up monkey belonging to their father.

The cast is led by Theo James, who plays the adult versions of Hal and Bill, with Christian Convery portraying the brothers as children. The film also stars Tatiana Maslany, Elijah Wood, Colin O’Brien, Rohan Campbell and Sarah Levy.

Rather than treating King's story as a conventional supernatural horror movie, Perkins embraces a more unusual combination of black comedy, absurdity and extreme violence. The result is a film in which the deaths themselves become part of its macabre sense of humor.

For viewers looking for a horror movie that combines Stephen King’s supernatural premise with grotesque humor and a deliberately over-the-top style, The Monkey is currently proving to be one of HBO Max's biggest attractions in Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria!.

For now, the cursed toy has taken over the streaming charts.

Based on the short story by Stephen King and produced by James Wan (The Conjuring, Saw), The Monkey is a new journey into dark worlds from Longlegs writer and director Osgood Perkins.

When twin brothers find a mysterious wind-up monkey, a series of outrageous deaths tear their family apart. 

Twenty-five years later, the monkey begins a new killing spree, forcing the estranged siblings to confront the cursed toy.

Prorom released The Monkey in Romania and Bulgaria (on March 7), Hungary (on February 27), Czech Republic, Sloavakia, Serbia, Slovenia and Croatia (on February 20).

Full Moon 2024 will open with the premiere of Longlegs (directed by Osgood Perkins, USA, 2024) one of the most anticipated horror films of the year.

The famous Nicolas Cage is hardly recognizable in this chilling story, where he plays a serial killer obsessed with the FBI agent trying to catch him.

With an extraordinary success across the ocean, Longlegs is seen in its absolute premiere for Romania at Full Moon, to be distributed by Prorom and Transilvania Film in cinemas starting on September 6.

Full Moon Film Festival is organized by the Association for the Promotion of Romanian Film and presented by Transilvania International Film Festival.