However, Perkins' screenplay works in a lot more death scenes, a custody battle subplot, and a seething twin. In his version, Hal and Bill (also played by James) were just boys when the monkey found them,

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.

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.