Your Monster

Name: Your Monster
Genre: Horror, Comedy, Romance
Released: October 25, 2024
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 63
Cast: Brandon Victor Dixon, Brian McCarthy, Edmund Donovan, Kasey Bella Suarez, Kayla Foster

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| Release Date: October 25, 2024 | Not Rated

Starring: Brandon Victor Dixon, Brian McCarthy, Edmund Donovan, Kasey Bella Suarez, Kayla Foster, Lana Young, Matthew Lamb, Melissa Barrera, Taylor Trensch, Tommy Dewey

Summary: Soft-spoken actor Laura Franco (Melissa Barrera), who is dumped by her longtime boyfriend (Edmund Donovan) while recovering from surgery, retreats to her childhood home to recover. With her future looking bleak, insult is added to injury when Laura discovers her ex is staging a musical that she helped him develop. But out of theseSoft-spoken actor Laura Franco (Melissa Barrera), who is dumped by her longtime boyfriend (Edmund Donovan) while recovering from surgery, retreats to her childhood home to recover. With her future looking bleak, insult is added to injury when Laura discovers her ex is staging a musical that she helped him develop. But out of these gut-wrenching life changes emerges a monster (Tommy Dewey) with whom she finds a connection, encouraging Laura to follow her dreams, open her heart and fall in love with her inner rage.… Expand

Director: Caroline Lindy

Genre(s): Horror, Comedy, Romance

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 98 min

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Slashfilm Bill Bria

Jan 22, 2024

Lindy doesn't just make a fun genre mash-up of a film, blending together comedy, fantasy, romance, horror, and musical theatre, but uses the movie's genre elements to tell a subversively wicked story of suppressed emotions, and what can result when those feelings aren't kept behind a closet door. Read full review

Collider Jeff Ewing

Oct 25, 2024

Your Monster is an engaging showcase of Barrera's considerable talents, as well as proof that Dewey can nail a charismatic rom-com lead role under any circumstances. Read full review

Tara Brady

Jun 5, 2025

An appropriately monstrous hit with audiences at London’s Sundance and Dublin’s Horrorthon festivals, this is not quite a fairy tale, but it comes close enough to cast a spell. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Oct 24, 2024

Your Monster, while falling short of the Critic’s Pick status that Jacob vociferously covets for his show, has its charms, namely the backstage intrigue, onstage songs by the Lazours (of the current Off Broadway musical “We Live in Cairo”), and a disarming lead in Barrera. Read full review

The Observer (UK) Wendy Ide

Dec 2, 2024

Caroline Lindy’s feature debut is a droll, if uneven blend of comedy, romance, fantasy and horror that relies heavily on the off-the-charts chemistry between Barrera and Dewey, who manages to convince as a charismatic romantic lead, despite looking like a rejected prosthetics test for the 80s TV series Manimal. Read full review

Tim Grierson

Jan 21, 2024

The film lacks the teeth to be an incisive takedown of romantic comedies — in truth, it works best at its sweetest. Dewey communicates a lifetime of longing in those soulful eyes that pop through Monster’s makeup, and Barrera brings an endearing amount of dorky energy. But whenever these characters leave the house, the problems start — both for their relationship and the film itself. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Oct 28, 2024

Whatever “charms” it reached for vanish for the attempted over-the-top finale, which left me cold and didn’t come close to making the sale about the “Embrace your inner rage” spin this is allegedly about. Read full review

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