I thought The Raven adaptation was very well done, though.
#MONKEY PAW SIMPSONS SERIES#
I felt the Treehouse of Horrors series started a lot weaker than I remembered but improved quickly. Tasting trending Taiwanese castella at a Chinese chain restaurant in Japan: yum or no? via Joseph Mallozzi 🏴☠️ April 20, 2023 How are you going to get them? Skeleton power?" /xL8Rm4o65M Season 7: The last two stories, Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace and Homer3, were equally great.įavorite line – Chief Wiggum after a desiccated Willie threatens their children: "Oh, right. Burns coming back to tell Homer "You're fired!" before dying again. My favorite was Terror at 5 1/2 feet, a terrific riff on the classic Twilight Zone episode.įavorite line – Mr. Season 5: Loved the Night Gallery-esque framing sequence. Season 3: Enjoyed all three, but The Monkey's Paw is the absolute stand-out with its meta critique of The Simpsons phenomenon.įavorite line – Marge: "Homer, there's something I don't like…about that severed hand." 2/3 /hXcaSIQWD9 Check this one out if you have the chance.Kicking off our Treehouse of Horror marathon discussion. Jake’s third wish is a crucial, painful decision that most viewers won’t see coming. The Monkey’s Paw is a solid horror flick with great acting and thick mood.
Is there really room for another interpretation? Brett Simmons proves that yes, there is. Like I mentioned, Jacobs’ story has been done to death. The shift is handled a little clumsily, but it’s only a brief segue and then the film is back on track again. The film is consistently dark, absolutely, but once Cobb comes back to life, the film takes on a nightmarish feel for a little while, as Jake stumbles around the dark alleys of New Orleans, trying to figure out what to do with the paw. His resurrection brings about an abrupt tonal shift in the film, one that feels kinda jarring at first. He gets to ham it up at times, but for the most part he plays Cobb as a reserved maniac. Thomason may be the lead, but once Cobb rises from the dead, The Monkey’s Paw becomes Lang’s movie. As the film progresses, he does begin to deteriorate though, which leads to some pleasantly gory moments. Thankfully, Undead Cobb is physically the same, he’s just a lot more uninhibited and more of a dick than before. At this point in the film, I was enjoying myself but got super worried that Cobb was now going to be a zombie – limping around, moaning, the whole bit. What could go wrong? Cobb comes back, but he’s undead now. They crash the Mustang and Cobb is killed, so Jake uses wish number two to bring him back to life. A few drinks later and whaddya know, the Mustang is still there, with the keys in the ignition. Although he doesn’t believe in the paw’s magical powers, Jake jokingly picks it up and wishes he owned the sweet Mustang out in the parking lot. He explains to them that it grants three wishes, but he doesn’t sound all that enthusiastic about it – he seems to dread the damn thing, actually. They find him brooding over whiskey and the paw of a dead monkey. His best bud on the job is Cobb (Stephen Lang), an outspoken fella who enjoys a cold one (or 12) after a hard day’s work.Īt a local watering hole, Jake and Cobb try to console a co-worker who was canned. Thomason), a blue-collar factory employee who’s working under his ex-girlfriend’s husband. After a brief prologue introduces the titular talisman, we meet Jake ( Husk‘s C.J. I like that it’s simply titled The Monkey’s Paw. The Monkey’s Paw is a competent little horror film, one that asks the question: what if the parents in Jacobs’ original story had opened the door? Now Husk director Brett Simmons has delivered his own version of the classic story, set in contemporary New Orleans. Shows as diverse as The Simpsons and The X-Files have spun their own variations, which typically contain a talisman that grants three wishes, but with dire consequences. Jacobs’ short story “The Monkey’s Paw” has been adapted a bazillion times since it was first published in 1902.
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