The Monkey Is A 180° Tonal Flip From Longlegs + Interview With Director Oz Perkins
/Film Daily
SlashFilm.com
4.6 • 930 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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On the February 21, 2025 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film staff writers Bill Bria and Jeremy Mathai to talk about Oz Perkins’ newest movie, The Monkey, and present an interview with Oz Perkins.
In Our Feature Presentation: The Monkey Review: Osgood Perkins' Longlegs Follow-Up Can't Live Up To The Hype
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- Oz Perkins interview
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| 0:59.7 | 2025. On today's episode of the show, we're going to be talking about Oz Perkins' newest |
| 1:03.8 | movie, The Monkey, and we'll present an interview with Oz Perkins. My name is Ben Pearson. I am |
| 1:08.9 | an editor at slashfilm.comcom and I'm joined on today's |
| 1:11.5 | episode by Slash Film Staff Writers Bill Brea. Hello, hello. And Jeremy Mathie. |
| 1:18.3 | Hey, folks. Happy to be here. All right. So guys, let's talk about The Monkey. We're going to do |
| 1:24.1 | some spoiler-free, just broad thoughts to kick things off, and then we'll get |
| 1:28.2 | into spoilers. I'll clearly mark that part of the conversation, so folks can pause and go check |
| 1:33.3 | out the movie, and then come back and listen to that discussion. But I think from talking with you |
| 1:37.8 | both on Slack, Bill, you like this movie. Jeremy, not as much. And I find myself right in the |
| 1:43.5 | middle, kind of like, I like certain aspects of it, other things of it, not as much. And I find myself right in the middle, kind of like, |
| 1:44.3 | I like certain aspects of it, other things of it not really crazy about. So let's start with |
| 1:49.9 | the positives. Bill, what did you connect with in The Monkey? What did you like about the movie? |
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