‘The Monkey’ Just Broke a Massive Trailer Viewership Record for Indie Horror
Just six months after NEON’s Longlegs became the highest grossing indie horror movie in the past 10 years, the distributor continues to dominate the indie horror space by breaking another massive record with their next offering. Again directed by Osgood Perkins, the trailer for upcoming Stephen King adaptation The Monkey just passed 109 million views! […]
Just six months after NEON’s Longlegs became the highest grossing indie horror movie in the past 10 years, the distributor continues to dominate the indie horror space by breaking another massive record with their next offering. Again directed by Osgood Perkins, the trailer for upcoming Stephen King adaptation The Monkey just passed 109 million views!
Deadline explains, “The first trailer for Osgood Perkins‘ The Monkey is quite the success, with a current running viewership across all platforms including TikTok of 109 million.”
Within the first 24 hours, the trailer for The Monkey passed 43 million views and hit 100 million in the first 72 hours, which Deadline says is “arguably a record for a non-MPA studio independent horror movie.” Deadline adds for further context, “Among other horror trailers that count TikTok views, The Monkey beats such pics as Smile which netted 100M views ($22.6M opening); The Black Phone at 73M for its first trailer and 37M for its second trailer ($23.6M opening); and Talk To Me’s second trailer which came in at 23M. The Monkey also beat out both first and second trailers for Nosferatu at 74M and 48M, respectively ($21.6M 3-day opening).”
It sounds like NEON may have another horror hit on their hands here in early 2025. Produced by James Wan, The Monkey arrives in theaters on February 21, 2025.
Watch the previously released Red Band trailer below.
In The Monkey, “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.”
The Monkey is a short horror story that appeared in King’s Skeleton Crew, a 1985 collection that also featured The Mist, The Jaunt, The Raft, Survivor Type, The Reach, and more.
