‘Your Monster’ Writer Explains Ending, Whether Laura’s Monster Is Real
deadline.comSPOILER ALERT: This post contains details from Your Monster. Your Monster takes audiences on a fun, romantic and spooky ride just in time for Halloween, but some viewers might want clarification on the ending.
Writer and director Caroline Lindy, who makes her feature debut with the film that is now playing in theaters, told Deadline that despite the precarious ending, she imagines Laura (Melissa Barrera) and Monster (Tommy Dewey) “riding off into the sunset together.” Based on Lindy’s 2019 short, the film follows soft-spoken actor Laura Franco, who is dumped by her longtime boyfriend Jacob (Edmund Donovan) while recovering from surgery and retreats to her childhood home.
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 with whom she finds a connection, encouraging Laura to follow her dreams, open her heart and fall in love with her inner rage.
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