Then there was a distribution deal with Netflix that would have seen it go straight to streaming, going against Patel's vision of people being able to see Monkey Man in theaters. Luckily ...

The supernatural villain of “The Monkey,” writer-director Osgood Perkins ... outside and gets impaled on a for sale sign. Another man’s head is obliterated by a bowling ball.

The catch, in the lore of both the short story and the film, is that the person who winds up the monkey can't be its victim ... a ghostly man on a pale horse passes by and gives them a knowing ...