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This Movie Ripped off Stephen King's The Monkey Long Before Its Official Adaptation

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What if I told you Oz Perkins' The Monkey isn't the first to adapt Stephen King's short story? While Neon's 2025 goreganza is the approved and licensed adaptation, there's a lesser-known 80s horror movie with eerie similarities to King's short story “The Monkey.” Kenneth J. Berton's The Devil's Gift was released in 1984, four years after King's bite-sized tale was published in Gallery magazine. For those who've read King's fiction, it's hard to …

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This Movie Ripped off Stephen King's The Monkey Long Before Its Official Adaptation

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This Movie Ripped off Stephen King's The Monkey Long Before Its Official Adaptation

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