‘Gleefully bloodthirsty’ film is already highest grossing horror of 2025 with $45,000,000
It also boasts a solid 79% on Rotten Tomatoes.
A gleefully bloody and gruesome new film has already become the highest grossing horror movie of 2025, by quite some margin.
Stephen King adaptation The Monkey, starring Theo James, has had a very successful run in cinemas so far, raking in $45,771,792 (£35,542,624) after just over two weeks on release.
Directed by Longlegs filmmaker Osgood Perkins, the film has managed a haul of over $31million (£24m) domestically in the US, combined with over $14m (£10.8m) elsewhere, adding up to the biggest box office for a horror picture so far this year.
It’s ahead of both off-beat ‘rom-com’ horror Companion and Wolf Man, the latest in Universal’s retelling of its classic monster movies, both of which earned over $34m (£26m) according to Box Office Mojo.
The Monkey is also the seventh highest grossing film overall of the year, behind the likes of Captain America: Brave New World, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy and Oscar-winner Bong Joon Ho’s latest film Mickey 17.
After grabbing a lot of attention before release when its trailer was banned by major US TV networks for ‘excessive violence’, the word-of-mouth hype has translated well into bums on seats – and a solid 79% rating on review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes.
