“Absolute mayhem”: Rohan Campbell shares how he filmed a gruesome scene for The Monkey

Rohan Campbell apparently loved the way his character, Thrasher, died in The Monkey. The film is filled with a lot of twisted deaths, all thanks to this drum-playing toy monkey who brings misfortunes on everyone but the ones turning its keys. Fans weren't really happy that Disney took away those cymbals.

The Halloween Ends actor recently shed light on how his character's death scene, where a swarm of bees decides to take a tour of his body via his mouth, came to be. It was all CGI, and all he had to do was do some gargling. Other than Ricky, pretty much, as Tatiana Maslany's Lois Shelburn in the film implies,

"Everybody dies."

While filming Thrasher's death, Rohan Campbell states that

"It was mayhem, just absolute mayhem."

This scene from The Monkey was ridiculous

Rohan Campbell sat down with ScreenRant to share his experience playing the character and dying in a unique way.

"It obviously looks amazing in the movie, and it's probably my favorite way I've ever died on camera. And I've died a lot of different ways on camera. But this one is electric."

He also told the publication that,

"Doing it without any CGI or effects is just me gargling in a back seat with Theo screaming at the top of his lungs. It was mayhem, just absolute mayhem. I think when they called cut, everyone was just silent, because it was so ridiculous. It was a really fun day in the back of that car."

Though his character wasn't well fleshed out in The Monkey as far as individual stories are concerned, Rohan Campbell tried to explain that too. In the film, we see that Thrasher has an infatuation with the toy, which reminds him of his father, and that's all.

Campbell was the narrator for Thrasher here. When he discussed this with Perkins as to how to approach it, the director told him to do his thing. So Campbell applied whatever was going on in his head during the prep. He thinks Thrasher and the monkey were communicating telepathically.

Thrasher seriously was an interesting character for Rohan, and he loved the toy monkey, as he told JoBlo in an interview. For one, this drum-playing monkey was like a toddler, but heavy and creepy. Horror is his kind of genre, as he went on to explain it while also telling how inspiring a man Osgood Perkins is.

All in all, the film was received well with the critics, given the 78% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The Monkey is originally based on Stephen King's, aka King of Horror, story of the same name and is doing just fine commercially too. According to Deadline, that film's eyeing $12 million - $14 million in the opening weekend alone.