Film fans are refusing to buy The Monkey’s promotional popcorn bucket as “terrified” cinema-goers confess the “nightmare inducing” object “will not be coming home with them”
Horror fans are completely terrified of The Monkey’s popcorn bucket.
The new horror flick, which is based on a short story of the same name written by Stephen King, is set to be released on February 21 and a first look at the film’s major merchandise has been released. Pictures of The Monkey’s promotional popcorn bucket have gone viral, and cinemagoers are clearly disgusted by the piece.
The bucket is moulded in the shape of the monkey featured in the film, complete with creepy grin and huge drum compartment for the popcorn. Over on X/Twitter, many social media users gathered to share their horror at the plastic monstrosity.
“That is not coming home with me under any circumstances,” cried one person. A second said: “Oh hell no [shocked emoji].” while a third added: “Already ha[s] me p****** my pants.”
Another wrote: “That s*** giving me nightmares.” More comments flooded in, saying that the bucket “looks creepy and awesome at the same time,” that they “don’t want that thing in their house” and that the merchandise is “genuinely terrifying”.
Someone even asked if the popcorn bucket “comes with a free curse” while another person simply branded it a “sick” idea.
However, other film fans expressed that they are excited to get their hands on one. “Excellent, great job [clapping emoji] all will be sold out,” read a comment on X/Twitter. “Oh hell yeah,” said another, while a third typed: “Love it!”
Other fans said that the bucket is a “must have,” they they are “so getting one” and that they “want one of their own”.
The Monkey has faced advertising hurdles in the lead-up to the film’s release. The film’s distributor NEON recently took to Instagram to joke that their “excessively violent” trailer was refused by four major broadcasters.
All of them declined to show The Monkey’s promotional clip in emails sent to the distributor as NEON explained to fans that their method “did not go well”.
In the first email, one employee said that “the spot below would not be permitted in any programming” due to the video’s “excessive violence”. NEON asked for clarification on the issues they found, to which the broadcaster replied that “pretty much every scene in the spot” was unsuitable.
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