Caroline Lindy's first feature film Your Monster (2024) is currently streaming on MAX, subscription needed to watch. The dark comedy/horror/romance/musical feature is based on Lindy's 2020 short film of the same name.
Described as a Modern Day Beauty and the Beast and Based on a Trueish Story. Originally released in theaters on October 25th, 2024, then a VOD release on Nov 12, 2024, and began streaming on MAX on Jan 24, 2025.
SYNOPSIS: After her life falls apart, soft-spoken actor Laura Franco finds her voice again when she meets a terrifying, yet weirdly charming Monster living in her closet. A romantic-comedy-horror film about falling in love with your inner rage.
Written and Directed by Caroline Lindy and Starring Melissa Barrera, Tommy Dewey, Edmund Donovan, Kayla Foster, and Meghann Fahy.
Trailer:
Melissa Barrera, Tommy Dewey Exclusive Clip:
Melissa Barrera & Tommy Dewey Have An Emotional Movie Night In Your Monster Clip:
Melissa Barrera & Tommy Dewey Dance Scene Movie Clip:
Laura Meets The Monster Exclusive Clip:
Laura Yells at Jacob scene:
Melissa Barrera & Tommy Dewey - A Song For You (Duet) Clip:
Melissa Barrera sings My Stranger Ending scene (Spoilers):
Meet the Director/Writer Caroline Lindy of Your Monster:
Director/Writer Caroline Lindy And Kayla Foster Talk About The Monsters In Your Monster:
Melissa Barrera Confirms The Genre of Your Monster at Comic Con 2024:
Burning Questions With Melissa Barrera and Tommy Dewey:
The Cast of Your Monster On Women Dealing with Monsters:
Star Melissa Barrera Discusses the Movie’s Ending and What She Learned:
Melissa Barrera & Tommy Dewey Talk Your Monster's Romance, Musical Numbers:
BTS Clip: Tommy Dewey Transforms Into Monster:
Your Monster: Pieces (of a Broken Heart) Music Video (Spoilers):
Jack-O's Review: "More of a romantic comedy than a horror film, not really scary. The only really horror related scenes is the introduction of the monster and the ending. Melissa Barrera was great and has a lovely singing voice. The monster isn't frightening but charming. Great costumes in the Halloween Party scene. Loved the ending. I enjoyed watching but probably would not watch again." ★★★ = Good @trickhorrortreater
More Reviews:
"Your Monster is a strange beast because it has the ingredients to be a crowd-pleaser, but sometimes those very elements were the things that made me wish the credits would deliver me. Its uneven, heavy-handed approach to breakups and bad exes may quench some urge for revenge, but our main character's heart isn't in it. While the concept feels fresh, its execution is much more predictable... Occasionally, Your Monster shows some signs of life, but it's not enough to keep it alive as long as the runtime." ★½ RogerEbert.com
"Your Monster takes us through some wild tonal shifts, but writer-director Lindy, making her feature debut with an expansion of her 2020 short of the same name, pulls it off, casting women's lives and the everyday bullshit we endure as both comedy and tragedy, as romance and horror. That musical that Jacob wrote? It's about the straitjacket of being the “good girl” that all women are socialized to be. This is a hugely original and grimly delightful smashdown of that. It's a roar that women are mad as hell, and we're not gonna take it anymore." ★★★★★ FlickFilosopher.com
"If Ann Landers had it right, and hanging on to resentment amounts to letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head, then Your Monster is what happens when you kick open the door and let those feelings run amok. Drawing from personal experience, writer-director Caroline Lindy delivers a clumsy metaphor of a movie... a heavy-handed empowerment tale... Mopey to a fault, with a missed opportunity for an ending, Your Monster amounts to an intermittently amusing, grubby-looking pity party. Laura can cry if she wants to, but you won't." Variety.com
"This debut movie from writer-director Caroline Lindy is a bold and unusual mix of horror, romcom, and musical. Your Monster has a lot going on, and much of it works, but there are moments where the humor doesn't quite hit, the emotional scenes don't feel earned, and it struggles to set its tone. When it does get it right, the off-kilter style offers plenty of memorable moments and the chemistry between Barrera and Dewey makes the relationship, however knowingly cliched, ultimately pretty believable. Characters fall into caricature elsewhere, particularly Edmund Donovan's arrogant, womanizing Jacob, which makes it all the easier to root for the over-the-top payoff we all know is coming. It's a promising first feature that bodes well for a more finely tuned sophomore offering." ★★★ CommomSenseMedia.org
"... a climax to everything emotionally beautiful and chaotic and furious about Laura's relationship with the Monster that would be gloriously perfect...in another film. This is the moment where Lindy fouls her high-wire act, introducing a horror element that, while magnificently executed, turns the dial on Your Monster's tone up past 11—well past the comfortable, lighthearted four that it's at up to this point. Barrera's Laura may be full of rage, but the kind of monster she is doesn't line up with where her rage leads her. And while she doesn't necessarily need a happily ever after, she and her Monster are too endearing to have their story go down the path Your Monster leads them." ★★½ SlantMagazine.com"
"Yes, it is horror. Yes, it is comedy, Yes, it is romantic. Yes, it is dramatic. But also YES it is a mini-musical with some catchy Broadway-ready tunes written by The Lazours, with a bouncy score provided by Tim Williams... Your Monster, which premiered to good reaction at this year's Sundance Film Festival, is not exactly a typical Halloween-season horror film where its distributor has placed it, but like a Rocky Horror Picture Show it has the stuff to eventually find an appreciative audience that just might be bowled over by its sheer originality and quirky message of finding our inner self, for better or worse. And don't be surprised to see Broadway calling." Deadline.com
"This has a chance to be a cult favorite, particularly for fans of movies like Warm Bodies. It pulls off the rom-com better than the horror, but it makes for a popcorn-worthy sofa watch. It also provides a lot of vicarious satisfaction if you are in romance rebound mode. Its fun, and sweet, with a nasty kick at the very end. Credit Tim Williams for writing convincing Broadway numbers (“My Stranger” in particular) and Melissa Barrera for nailing the numbers. That woman can sing! (I have added this as #10 on my Horror Musical Dead List!)" ★★★★ Scariesthings.com
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