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Warning! This article contains major spoilers for The Monkey. If you've yet to see the movie, and don't want to know anything that happens, turn back now!
Osgood Perkins' The Monkey essentially asks 'what if the Final Destination franchise had jokes?', which is a roundabout way of saying that it's full to the brim with gags and grisly deaths. Based on the short story by Stephen King, the horror comedy follow twins Hal and Bill, who are haunted by a cursed toy from their past that has a penchant for picking off those in close proximity to them at random. With that, and as the poster and trailer claims, "everybody dies".
In the movie's final act (which you can read more about with our The Monkey ending explained guide), it's revealed that Bill, having never processed losing his mom when he was a youngster, has been causing the monkey's latest batch of kills. He's been using the toy – though it's ill-advised to describe it as such – in the hope of it murdering his brother Hal, who he blames for Lois's passing. You see, Bill worked out that Hal had turned the monkey's key back when they were teenagers, but in his attempt to get it to dispose of his snide sibling, he inadvertently got it to target Lois instead.
"There's something funny about her popping up at that moment – the senselessness of it," actor Tatiana Maslany, who plays Lois, tells GamesRadar+ of the scene. "It's, like, this idea of the heavy weight of the things that we carry with us. Lois was such a weight on Bill in all of the ways. She embodied everything that he missed and lost and everything. So it makes sense that… yeah, like, it's not a revenge, it's just… inevitability, maybe?
