‘90s Goth girl Christina Ricci is back and better than ever in ‘Monstrous’
nypost.comtended toward edgy remarks — added to the rep.Like so many icons of ’90s culture, Ricci has made a major comeback in recent years.
Her latest role is in the thriller “Monstrous,” out Friday, May 13. In it, she plays a young mother fleeing dark circumstances in a deceptively quaint 1950s setting.
Her character, Laura, seems to be trying to escape an abusive husband; she and her young son arrive at a house in a dusty desert landscape, where the son (Santino Barnard) begins seeing an otherworldly apparition in the lake near the house, and Laura keeps hanging up on insistent phone calls.
The twisty supernatural drama follows Ricci’s turn as the menacing Misty Quigley in Showtime’s series “Yellowjackets,” which reunited Ricci with fellow ’90s actors Juliette Lewis and Melanie Lynskey as adult survivors of a plane crash whose fallout was a quasi- “Lord of the Flies,” except with teen girls.
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