The actor-turned-filmmaker – who you may recognise from, yes, ‘Legally Blonde’ – has directed a new film about an evil mechanical monkey. He speaks to Annabel Nugent about grief, his mother’s tragic death on 9/11,

Filmmakers tinker with the question of tone from project to project, many not as much as they should. But writer-director Osgood Perkins has no problem with tonal adjustment.

Plenty of horror movies have found their way into churches, but The Monkey has become the first ever film to screen in them and theatres simultaneously across America. All you've got to do is fill out a form to have the horrifying little nuisance pay a visit.

With “The Monkey,” there's flashes of what makes director Oz Perkins and original storyteller Stephen King so interesting.

The horror filmmaker follows his smash Nicolas Cage/Maika Monroe-starrer with this adaptation of a Stephen King story, headlined by Theo James and Tatiana Maslany.

The Monkey reportedly has a post-credits scene, and it's a trailer for director Osgood Perkins' next movie – so it's worth sticking around after the credits start to roll. Keepe