The Jolly Monkey

2025

Horror

3
IMDb Rating 3.2/10 10 178 178

motel slasher

Plot summary

40 years ago, families disappeared near the isolated Jolly Monkey motel. Today, the family of the owners return to discuss what to do with the place. One by one they are killed by a someone dressed as the motel's mascot and need to escape.

Director

Ryan Ebert Photo
Ryan Ebert

Top cast

Patrick Labyorteaux Photo
Patrick Labyorteaux as Walter Roberts
Dominic Keating Photo
Dominic Keating as Steven Blythe
Jane Hajduk Photo
Jane Hajduk as Debra Blythe
Neirin Winter Photo
Neirin Winter as Marshall Blythe
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860.23 MB
1280*534
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 33 min
Seeds 19
1.56 GB
1920*802
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 33 min
Seeds 31

Movie Reviews

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.
Reviewed by daniel-jshancock 2 / 10

Only thing jolly about this was the end credits

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