Simply six months after NEON’s Longlegs turned the highest grossing indie horror film previously 10 years, the distributor continues to dominate the indie horror house by breaking one other huge file with their subsequent providing. Once more directed by Osgood Perkins, the trailer for upcoming Stephen King adaptation The Monkey simply handed 109 million views!
Deadline explains, “The primary trailer for Osgood Perkins‘ The Monkey is kind of the success, with a present working viewership throughout all platforms together with TikTok of 109 million.”
Throughout the first 24 hours, the trailer for The Monkey handed 43 million views and hit 100 million within the first 72 hours, which Deadline says is “arguably a file for a non-MPA studio impartial horror film.” Deadline provides for additional context, “Amongst different horror trailers that rely TikTok views, The Monkey beats such pics as Smile which netted 100M views ($22.6M opening); The Black Cellphone at 73M for its first trailer and 37M for its second trailer ($23.6M opening); and Discuss To Me’s second trailer which got here in at 23M. The Monkey additionally beat out each first and second trailers for Nosferatu at 74M and 48M, respectively ($21.6M 3-day opening).”
It seems like NEON might have one other horror hit on their palms right here in early 2025. Produced by James Wan, The Monkey arrives in theaters on February 21, 2025.
Watch the beforehand launched Purple Band trailer under.
In The Monkey, “When twin brothers discover a mysterious wind-up monkey, a collection of outrageous deaths tear their household aside. Twenty-five years later, the monkey begins a brand new killing spree forcing the estranged brothers to confront the cursed toy.”
The Monkey is a brief horror story that appeared in King’s Skeleton Crew, a 1985 assortment that additionally featured The Mist, The Jaunt, The Raft, Survivor Kind, The Attain, and extra.
