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Was there a toy mechanical monkey banging cymbals?


Besides the psychotic, trained monkey in this horror flick, was there any depiction of an old-fashioned toy, mechanical monkey, the one with a red hat, red vest and clanging two brass cymbals together? The reason I ask is that the other day I was talking with a fellow horror movie fan. This quirkly topic came up about the old-fashioned toy monkey clanging cymbals becoming an icon of old horror movies. Typically the toy mechanical monkey makes its appearance in superhatural ghost-typle horror films. Sitting on top of a shelf or a mantletop, the toy monkey starts clanging its brass cymbals, scaring the crap out of the people nearby. But it's a sign that something diabolitical is afoot.

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I don't recall a mechanical monkey toy in the movie. Which is strange in itself, as there is on featured on the poster.

http://www.impawards.com/1988/monkey_shines.html

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There is a Stephen King story about that exact toy. Something happens whenever the toy monkey claps its cymbal. It is a short story in the Skeleton Crew called: "The Monkey". (Of course) I don't know if this is a movie or not.

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I believe it was in the movie trailer.

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It was brought up, in 'The Attic', too.

http://www.cgonzales.net & http://www.drxcreatures.com

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It's here, in this TERRIBLE trailer-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQmAZr4QxNw

It's not the theatrical trailer, I think it's the video trailer.

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