The Monkey soundtrack includes music by Little Richard, Nina Simone and Sam Cooke. This info article contains spoilers and song details for Osgood Perkins’ 2025 movie on Disney+ and Hulu. Check out Vague Visages’ Soundtracks of Cinema category for more soundtrack song listings.

The Monkey stars Theo James in a dual role as twin siblings named Hal and Bill. Tatiana Maslany co-stars as Lois, the protagonists’ mother who passes away in a 1999 timeline from a brain aneurysm. The storyline follows Hal and Bill as they reunite after 25 years apart to strategize against a killer toy monkey. Composer Edo Van Breemen (Afflicted) scored the 98-minute film; music supervisor Natasha Duprey (Heretic) picked the featured needle-drops. Here’s every song in The Monkey, an adaptation of Stephen King’s 1980 short story.

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The Monkey Soundtrack: Every Song in the 2025 Movie

• “Do Lafzon Ki Hai Dil Ki Kahani” by Amitabh Bachchan, Sharad Kumar and Asha Bhosle (00:00:00): The Monkey soundtrack song scores the opening sequence. Petey Shelborn (Adam Scott) brings a wind-up toy monkey to a pawn shop. Music plays faintly from a speaker system.
• “Let the Good Times Roll” by Shirley & Lee (00:04:00): Hal narrates about his father passing on a “secret horror.” The Monkey music kicks in during the title sequence. Hal introduces himself and his twin sibling, Bill, via narration.
• “You Made Me Love You (I Didn’t Want to Do It)” by Harry James (00:05:00): Young Hal (Christian Convery) fantasizes about killing Young Bill (Convery). The track sets in during a transition sequence. Lois dances with a grey-haired gentleman as Hal narrates about her.
• “Akumaka Tenshika” by Yumi Makiba (00:09:00): The Monkey soundtrack song scores an interior scene. Lois visits a hibachi restaurant with Young Hal and Young Bill. Babysitter Annie (Danica Dreyer) gets decapitated after the music drops.
• “Rip It Up” by Little Richard (00:14:00): Lois talks to Young Hal and Young Bill during an exterior scene by a tree. The Monkey music continues during a transition sequence. Lois dances with her two sons in 1999.
• “I Shall Be Released” by Nina Simone (00:25:00): Hal narrates about trying to dispose of a toy monkey in 1999. A transition sequence begins. Hal narrates about moving to Maine with Aunt Ida (Sarah Levy) and Uncle Chip (Osgood Perkins, the film’s director).
• “Sleepers” by Spectral Tilt (00:39:00): Thrasher/Ricky (Rohan Campbell) talks to his mother (Janet Kidder) during an interior scene. The Monkey soundtrack song plays from a speaker system. Thrasher inquires about the whereabouts of his father.
• “Twistin’ the Night Away” by Sam Cooke (01:31:00): Hal travels in a vehicle with his son, Petey (Colin O’Brien), and talks about going dancing. Students in a passing bus get decapitated by a semi. The Monkey music scores the film’s final moments and end credits.

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The Monkey soundtrack also includes:

• “I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside” by Richard Allen Harvey, Brian Douglas Gulland/APM Music on behalf of Sony Music Publishing
• “Sexual Education” by Greg Ng
• “Pop Goes the Weasel” by Greg Ng
• “Here Comes Trouble” by Eugenio Battaglia
• “Free as the Wind” by Steve Gray/APM Music on behalf of Sony Music Publishing
• “Face” by Spectral Tilt
• “Drive” by Spectral Tilt
• “Mexican Lady” by Otto Sieben/APM Music

Q.V. Hough (@QVHough) is Vague Visages’ founding editor.