As stated above, the first half hour (give or take) "Monkey" remains quite faithful to King's story. In that story, a man named Hal Shelburn cleans the house of a dead relative with the help of his wife and both sons. While digging through piles of rubbish, Hull's children find monkey for wind toys. Hull is horrified to see the doll, and for good reason - he has the power to kill! To be clear: this is not a situation of shirts, where the doll runs around. Instead, there is some dark supernatural power that radiates from the monkey resulting in various accidental deaths.

In the story, we find out that the monkey first acquired Hull's father, a trade marink that disappeared when Hull was a child. This is the king who withdraws from his own history: when he was young, his father, also a marine trader, left his family. Like King, Hull never learns what Really His father happened - but he doubts that the wicked monkey had anything to do with it. Perkins' film changes things a little here: we are treated with a prologue with Hull's father, who plays Adam Scott in a surprise, trying to get rid of the monkey by returning it to the pion store where he acquired it. (Also: Occupation of the father has been changed by a trading marine in airline). The monkey ends up causing the death of the pion store owner, and Scott's character is then trying to destroy the toy with Flamer, who (fun) is going to lie around. After this, we never see Scott's character again and we never learn what happened to him. After this, the young Hull and his twin brother Bill (both of Christian conversions) inexplicably find the monkey in the closet. The boys soon make the frightening discovery that whenever someone finishes the key to the monkey's back, someone else will die (the only "rule" seems that the monkey never kills the person who wounds it).

This is something true about the story, which is mostly told through retrospectives. In the story, the adult Hull recalls that the monkey causes several deaths when he was a child, including the death of the Babyceder of Hull and his mother. Perkins keeps these details in the film, but changes them here and there. For example: Hull's babysitter in the story is named Beula, who is also the name of true babysitter Steven King as a child. The story reveals that shortly after Hull wounded the monkey, Beula was killed by her boyfriend, who shot her during a quarrel. In the film, however, the babysitter has been renamed Annie Wilks (played by Danica Dreyer). King's fans will recognize that name: That's the name of the psychotic fan of King's novel "Misery" that he played so unforgettable by Oscar winner Katie Bates In the movie "Misery". Annie's death in the film "Monkey" is far more colorful than filming: her head is accidentally cut off by a chef of Chibachi.

In the story, the young Hull, realizing the monkey, is evil and killing people (and pets), suffocates the damn work in the well and hopes he will never see it again. But enough, the monkey reappears when Hull is an adult. As the story approaches the end, Hull tries to get rid of the monkey once and for all by sinking in the lake with the help of his youngest son toe. In the epilogue, it was found that all the fish in the lake had mysteriously died. None of this happens in the film, though. Instead, Perkins mostly uses Hull's retrospective details as a child during the first half hour of the film ... and then changes the story significantly after Hull is an adult.