This is the familiar old story of be careful of what you wish for. A guy working at a factory is given a monkey's paw and told that it will grant him three wishes. He sees a fancy sports car in a parking lot and it is his first wish. By chance, the keys are in it, and so he takes a friend with him on a high speed joy ride. They crash, and his good buddy goes through the windshield, with deadly results. Wish number two is for the accident victim to not be dead. The rest of the movie deals with the undead Tommy being a very violent sort of guy with a penchant for bloodshed. Bad things happen to the wish master, all due to the monkey's paw. The acting is decent enough, but the story becomes silly. A good premise does not sustain and I give the film a 5/10.
Review of The Monkey's Paw
