Twins Bill and Hal unearth a toy monkey that used to belong to their late father, the twins soon discover that the sinister looking toy has deadly powers, a force that caused the death of their babysitter, mother and many more. After buying it, the years pass and the brothers drift apart, the monkey however returns. I was genuinely looking forward to it, the cast on paper impressed me and the trailer looked great. The final result is a little bit of a disappointment, it aims to be an edgy, black comedy horror, most of the time it's just underwhelming. There's nothing new here, everything done here has been done before, better, in terms of pacing it is too slow, it takes ages to get going. I'm not too sure it knew what it wanted to be, I couldn't take it seriously as a horror, I wasn't expecting to yawn my wah through. On the plus side, the monkey looks awesome, I love the look on its face, especially when the lighting is dark and subtle, plus the period details are great, the early scenes look spot on. One or two of the scares looked good, very Final Destination at times. Fair to say all of the best material was crammed into the trailer, most of the material just wasn't up to much. They certainly made a great trailer, sadly they exhausted all of the best bits. Theo James does a good job, he adds a bit of life into the part and is as handsome as ever, sadly some of the other performances are a little lifeless. Overall, it's somewhat disappointing. 6/10.

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