How would you compare The Monkey to Final Destination (a film I remember existing mainly to find creative and unlikely ways for its characters to be killed)?
The Final Destination movies are pretty fatalistic: someone's gotta die, and death is going to use increasingly elaborate ways to make that death happen. The person's been marked for death and the scales have to be balanced. The Monkey's more nihilistic: it isn't that any one person's been singled out, it's just that death is a chaotic force that's going to take someone, anyone, and its methods are gleefully gruesome. Less about fate, more about happenstance.
How would you compare The Monkey to Final Destination (a film I remember existing mainly to find creative and unlikely ways for its characters to be killed)?
The Final Destination movies are pretty fatalistic: someone's gotta die, and death is going to use increasingly elaborate ways to make that death happen. The person's been marked for death and the scales have to be balanced. The Monkey's more nihilistic: it isn't that any one person's been singled out, it's just that death is a chaotic force that's going to take someone, anyone, and its methods are gleefully gruesome. Less about fate, more about happenstance.