Your Monster

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Your Monster

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2024

1h 42m

Romance

Comedy

Horror

Musical

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Your Monster tells the story of the soft-spoken actor Laura Franco (Melissa Barrera), who is dumped by her longtime boyfriend (Edmund Donovan) while recovering from surgery and 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.

Critics Consensus

A wickedly delightful genre mashup led by Melissa Barrera, Your Monster is pleasantly packed with songs, guts, and heart.

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Tara Brady

Irish Times

06/05/2025

4/5

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.

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Mark Kermode

Kermode and Mayo's Take (YouTube)

12/12/2024

I absolutely loved it.

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Wendy Ide

Observer (UK)

12/03/2024

3/5

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.

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Cristina Escobar

LatinaMedia.Co

Sep 1

The film is smart about the ways anger intersects with femininity, but I do wish we’d gotten some hints about how to use anger constructively and not be consumed by it.

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Denise Zubizarreta

LatinaMedia.Co

Jul 29

A-

Women aren’t just taught to suppress their anger, we’re also taught to fear our wants. And this movie plays with that beautifully. Her connection with the monster isn’t just about rage, it’s about passion.

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Clotilde Chinnici

Movies We Texted About

Jul 26

Your Monster works really well as a magical realism film with successful elements of romance and comedy. It is a feel-good film that manages to be very funny but also particularly emotional, with a unique and memorable tone.

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Nat

05/21/2025

It was weird and I loved that about it.. lol

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TMM

11/08/2024

A delightfully charming film. Melissa Barrera and Tommy Dewey are wonderful in their roles, and showcase excellent chemistry. I am unsure how I feel about the ending. It could be brilliant or disappointing. I will decide after my second viewing.

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hazelsbite

11/07/2024

This was a cute love yourself beauty and the beast movie. The ending was a little confusing but after it sinks in you realize the beast is the part of yourself that gets angry at not being loved the right way.

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KL

11/05/2024

This was better than Beauty & the Beast😁. I'm glad I found it. Might have enjoyed it more as a series, but good dark fun

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Latte

11/04/2024

Melissa Barrera should be nominated for every award ever

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monica f

11/03/2024

Sooo good!! I loved the costumes and movie twist!!

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Your Monster tells the story of the soft-spoken actor Laura Franco (Melissa Barrera), who is dumped by her longtime boyfriend (Edmund Donovan) while recovering from surgery and 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.

Director: Caroline Lindy
Producer: Kayla Foster, Shannon Reilly, Melanie Donkers, Kira Carstensen, Caroline Lindy
Screenwriter: Caroline Lindy
Distributor: Vertical
Production Co: Bombo Sports & Entertainment
Rating: R (Some Sexual Content|Language|Brief Bloody Violence)
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Horror, Musical
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 25, 2024, Limited
Runtime: 1h 42m