Osgood Perkins has guts – literally and metaphorically. The filmmaker knew it wouldn’t work to be precious when adapting “The Monkey,” a short story by Stephen King, hitting theaters Friday.

From your percussionists, tambourine-shakes are great for adding ‘colour’ to some of the blood-thirstier moments and to bring in the chorus - eg at ‘blood that flows…’ in bar 14).

Which, of course, it does. The film's blood-soaked climax arrives after 140 minutes of Fargeat throwing every piece of viscera possible at the screen, from deteriorating body parts to the most ...

He means it physically as well — his effects artists developed objects referred to as “guts cannons” and trucks loaded full of blood to kill people in increasingly gory and creative ways. It’s a ...