all due to a bizarre Monkey Toy's doing. This sinister-looking toy represents a wide-eyed, grinning monkey playing a drum. As the toy beats the drum, it leads to causing massive deaths.

Directed by Osgood Perkins, who broke out with the ominous 'Longlegs,' his follow-up is jokier and less effective, piercing the jugular with splatter gags.

It's the scene of the first crime (we see) in The Monkey, where Hal and Bill's delinquent father tries to sell his beady-eyed monkey. But in The Devil's Gift, it's where David's current partner ...

He's got it in his blood The story, as changed by Perkins, is that the bug-eyed monkey, which comes in a box marked “Like life,” is the discovery of identical twin boys Hal and Bill (both ...