“Everybody Dies And That’s Life” Osgood Perkins on ‘The Monkey’
“It seemed to me right from the jump that everybody in some way or other looks at that toy monkey’s face there’s an uncanny reaction in the human psyche. That’s become something in the collective unconscious,” says Osgood Perkins about his adaptation of Stephen King’s short story The Monkey. It wasn’t simply the opportunity to […]
“A Pop Interpretation Of Horror Films” Osgood Perkins On ‘Longlegs’
“I always try to start with something that’s classical or feels like a pop interpretation of something that we have seen before,” notes filmmaker Osgood Perkins of Longlegs starring Nicolas Cage as Longlegs and Taika Monroe as Agent Harker. Occult films rest on the familiar idea of the henchman/ woman that “does the dirty work […]
