The actor-turned-filmmaker – who you may recognise from, yes, ‘Legally Blonde’ – has directed a new film about an evil mechanical monkey. He speaks to Annabel Nugent about grief, his mother’s tragic death on 9/11,

Osgood Perkins' follow-up to 2024 horror hit 'Longlegs' is Stephen King adaptation, 'The Monkey'. But will the horror comedy be streaming?

"The Monkey," which Perkins adapted from Stephen King’s 1980 short story, doesn’t build on the earlier film’s promise. On the contrary, it’s a ham-handed, lurchingly obvious mess, without the glimmer of human interest that even a sensationalist horror film needs.