The Jolly Monkey

• 2025
• 93 min
• US

Directed by Ryan Ebert

What has been waiting all these years in the empty rooms of the Jolly Monkey motel? Four decades ago, families vanished at that lonely roadside stop. Now the owners' relatives gather to decide the building's fate: sell it, level it, forget it. The family meeting curdles when someone wearing the motel's grinning plush monkey mascot begins picking them off, room by room. A proudly lean mascot slasher: night corridors, hands-on gore, and an escape route that narrows with every locked door.}