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WEEK IN WOMEN: Caroline Lindy’s YOUR MONSTER Hits Halloween – Brandy McDonnell reports

October 9, 2024October 9, 2024 Brandy McDonnell Caroline Lindy, Edmund Donovan, halloween, Kayla Foster, Meghann Fahy, Melissa Barrera, nywift, spooky movies, the week in women, twiw, Your Monster

Caroline Lindy’s Your Monster, an official selection of the Midnight program at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, is getting a spooky season theatrical release. The film is directed, produced and written by Lindy as well as produced by Kayla Foster, Shannon Reilly, Melanie Donkers and Kira Carstensen. A New York City native, Lindy moved to Los Angeles to pursue her passion for filmmaking. She was awarded a grant from Women in Film to make the 2020 short film Your Monster which she expanded into her first feature length film.

Reviews

THE BEAST WITHIN – Review by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

July 29, 2024July 29, 2024 Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Alexander J. Farrell, Ashleigh Cummings, Caoilinn Springall, child actors, horror genre, James Cosmo, Kit Harrington, spooky movies, Stopmotion, The Beast Within

Told from the perspective of a little girl called Willow, The Beast Within follows a family on a ramshackle rural farm who harbor a great secret the child is slowly beginning to understand. Aided by her mother Imogen , Willow begins to make sense of her father Noah’s unusual behaviour, which includes unexplained excursions into the woods at night and strange absences. With the support of her doting grandfather Waylon, Willow discovers the truth about her father, testing both her loyalty and Imogen’s when it comes to just how far they will go to keep the family together.

Interviews

Caoilinn Springall chats Puppets, Horror and THE BEAST WITHIN – Nadine Whitney interviews

July 29, 2024July 29, 2024 Nadine Whitney Alexander J. Farrell, Caoilinn Springall, child actors, horror genre, spooky movies, Stopmotion, The Beast Within

Caoilinn Springall is only eleven years old and already she has an impressive resume of genre films. She starred with George Clooney as Iris in the science fiction dystopian film The Midnight Sky and was in an episode of Doctor Who. Her most recent starring role is as Willow Avery, an isolated young girl who finds out a terrible secret about her family, in The Beast Within. She shares her take on all of it with Nadine Whitney.