HTWDT Episode 20: Monkey Shines (1988) and The Monkey (2025)

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Too much Monkey Bizness! It's another milestone! 20 episodes! Well, look at us go monkeying around! This is another one that comes from the hearts and minds of our Patreon supporters on the Discord. We wanted to review Osgood Perkins' latest, The Monkey (2025) based on the Stephen King short story, and they chose George Romero's dare we say...classic? Monkey Shines (1988) to walk down the movie aisle with it. Thank you for reminding us this movie was around! We had quite a few laughs, and we even started to rewrite a Misfits song for it. Because 'Monkey with a straight razor' sounds like a Misfits song, Thanks, Art! That's going to be dropping in a few days, first on Patreon!

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