Just as its female lead is letting her inner rage come bubbling to the surface, the movie, Your Monster, about this young woman is also crying out from the inside to become a full blown Broadway musical, and not just the cult midnight movie it inevitably will be.
A sometimes awkward combo of horror/romcom/musical elements that don’t always mesh perfectly but still blend well enough makes writer/director Caroline Lindy‘s own feature length adaptation of her short film a fun ride, as well as a terrific showcase for its stars Melissa Barreraand Tommy Dewey.
In some ways it is also reminiscent of the current Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley horror comedy The Substance from director Coralie Fargeat which also finds its main character going deep into herself in order to change the trajectory of her life all the way to a desperate and stunning denouement on a theatrical stage (albeit in wildly different ways).
Maybe these ambitious and inventive female-driven horror comedies are a trend? Barrera (Scream) is Laura, an aspiring musical theatre actress who gets a devastating cancer diagnosis and lands in the hospital where, while recovering, gets the gut-wrenching blow that her longtime boyfriend Jacob (Edmund Donovan) has decided to dump her.
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