Previews: "The Monkey" & "Borderline"

What's upcoming in horror

The Monkey

Review on Thursday. In theaters Friday.

Writer-director Osgood Perkins (Longlegs) brings the Stephen King short story to screen. Per the logline: “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 brothers to confront the cursed toy.” Theo James, Tatiana Maslany, Elijah Wood, Christian Convery, Colin O'Brien, Rohan Cambell and Sarah Levy star.

Note: This is the red-band trailer, meaning TGFW … Too Gory For Work.

Also, there’s this clip. We don’t know if the pixilation is just to keep the trailer from being too much, or if it’s a clever meta bit in the movie itself.

Borderline

In theaters and on digital March 14

The writer of Cocaine Bear, Jimmy Warden, wrote and makes his directing debut with this bloody thriller about a dangerously persistent but generally very polite stalker (Ray Nicholson, Smile 2) who invades the home of a ‘90s pop star (Samara Weaving, Scream VI, Azrael) with grand delusions of a wedding. She tries to escape. Not easy. The leads are a second-generation star-fest, being the son of Jack Nicholson and the niece of Hugo Weaving.

Forewarned: This one gets pretty bloody as well.

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