Female Film Critics 24/375
Oh, the humor here is bitter, and the horror comes at you from unexpected angles, for sure. And the overriding genre is perhaps “anti-romance.” But Your Monster is actually kinda sweet… and the only thing that makes it anti-romance is that it’s about its female protagonist learning to love and respect herself, to put her own needs first.
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What if the monster from under the bed or the closet turned out to be the ideal romantic partner? Such is the premise of Your Monster, a film that’s an offbeat romance before a bumpy jog into horror. Melissa Barrera (Abigail, the Scream franchise) stars as Laura, a New York stage actress thrilled that her live-in boyfriend, Jacob (Edmund Donovan, Civil War), has written a role that could be her big break. After Jacob inexplicably dumps her after she has surgery, Laura returns to her mom’s brownstone to lick her wounds. There, she finds the monster (Tommy Dewey, Saturday Night) living behind the racks in a walk-in closet, presence from Laura’s youth who has lately been shunted aside.
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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.
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