The 1980 short story, which is about a cursed monkey toy that causes people to die in horrific accidents when it plays its ...

But Perkins couldn’t have them because apparently Disney had copyrighted a monkey playing cymbals for “Toy Story 3.” “They own Darth Vader and they own the cymbals,” Perkins says.

Playing cymbals instead of drums (because Disney wouldn't want that), the monkey plagues the two, with Hal having no choice but to bag up the gift from hell with the intention to dump it in a lake.

Let's start with the resemblances, which are glaring. In King's story and Berton's film, a cymbal-banging monkey causes fatalities after it clangs. They're also supernatural situations intertwined ...