The Jolly Monkey

2025

Action / Horror

7
IMDb Rating 3.4/10 10 319 319

motel slasher

Director

Ryan Ebert Photo
Ryan Ebert

Top cast

Dominic Keating Photo
Dominic Keating as Steven Blythe
Patrick Labyorteaux Photo
Patrick Labyorteaux as Walter Roberts
Jane Hajduk Photo
Jane Hajduk as Debra Blythe
Neirin Winter Photo
Neirin Winter as Marshall Blythe
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862.17 MB
1280*534
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 33 min
Seeds 6
1.73 GB
1920*802
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 33 min
Seeds 15
860.23 MB
1280*534
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 33 min
Seeds 6
1.56 GB
1920*802
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 33 min
Seeds 14

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by paul_m_haakonsen 4 / 10

Sort of watchable, but rather generic...

Stumbling upon the 2025 horror movie "The Jolly Monkey" by random chance, and given my love of all things horror, of course I had to check out the movie. Sure, I had never even heard about the movie prior to sitting down to watch it, so I virtually didn't know what I was in for. But the movie's cover was actually interesting enough to make me stop and take notice.Truth be told, I thought that this was going to be a mockbuster from The Asylum, cashing in on the recent Stephen King movie "The Monkey".The storyline in the movie, as written by Ryan Ebert, was watchable for sure, but it was also a rather generic script. The narrative was a bit sluggish, and writer Ryan Ebert didn't really bring anything particularly grand to the horror genre.Of the entire cast ensemble, I was only familiar with Patrick Labyorteaux and Anthony Jensen. The acting performances in the movie were fair.The effects in "The Jolly Monkey" were nothing outstanding. In fact, the movie didn't really make much use of special effects in general.My rating of writer and director Ryan Ebert's 2025 movie "The Jolly Monkey" lands on a generous four out of ten stars.
Reviewed by buckybowen040968-1 4 / 10

$90,000 Budget... sounds about right.

Reviewed by BA_Harrison 3 / 10

A rip-off of a film that wasn't much cop in the first place.

The Jolly Monkey is a blatant cash-in of Osgood Perkins' The Monkey, but this film was clearly rushed into production before writer/director Ryan Ebert had the opportunity to find out what The Monkey was actually about. Consequently, The Jolly Monkey bears very little resemblance to Perkins' film -- the toy monkeys don't even play drums, but clash cymbals instead -- but the similar title and copycat poster might just fool people into watching the knock-off as a result.To be fair, The Jolly Monkey is only slightly worse than The Monkey, a film that -- much like Perkins' Longlegs -- definitely didn't deserve the hype. Ebert's film is poorly acted, takes an age to get going, and doesn't know whether it wants to be a slasher or a supernatural horror, winding up a half-assed mixture of the two, but at least it has no pretensions. The plot sees the Blythe family and their relatives inheriting an old motel with a dark secret: those who checked in didn't always get the chance to check out, falling victim to a killer who removed children's faces, sewing them onto toy monkeys. Not long after arriving, members of the family fall victim to a knife wielding psycho in a monkey costume. And there's a ghost.I rate The Jolly Monkey 3.5/10 for the cheapo gore, rounded down to 3 for the terrible casting - Jenny and Marshall Blythe look absolutely nothing like their parents - and for Dominic Keating's man-bun: there's no excuse.
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