Your Monster

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Your Monster
Your Monster (2024) poster.jpg
Teaser poster
Directed byCaroline Lindy
Screenplay byCaroline Lindy
Based onYour Monster by Caroline Lindy
Produced by
  • Kayla Foster
  • Caroline Lindy
  • Kira Carstensen
  • Melanie Donkers
  • Shannon Reilly
Starring
CinematographyWill Stone
Edited by
  • Daysha Broadway
  • Jon Higgins
Music by Timothy Williams
The Lazours (songs)
Production
companies
  • Merman
  • Bombo Sports and Entertainment
Distributed by Vertical Entertainment
Release dates
  • January 18, 2024 (2024-01-18)(Sundance)
  • October 25, 2024 (2024-10-25)(United States)
Running time
98 minutes [1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Your Monster is a 2024 American romantic comedy-horror film written and directed by Caroline Lindy, based on her 2019 short film of the same name. The film stars Melissa Barrera, Tommy Dewey, Edmund Donovan and Kayla Foster.

Contents

Your Monster is scheduled to be released in the United States on October 25, 2024.

Synopsis

Laura Franco (Barrera) is a young actress enduring a cancer diagnosis and upsetting relationship breakup when she discovers a terrifying, yet weirdly charming Monster (Dewey) living in her closet.

Cast

Production

Your Monster is from Merman Productions. [2] Lindy and Kayla Foster produced, with Shannon Reilly from Bombo Sports and Entertainment, and Kira Carstensen and Melanie Donkers for Mermade. [3] Barrera described the project to Collider as an "incredible indie movie that was so satisfying to me. And I've realized how smaller films are more creatively satisfying in a way because you get a lot more say, and it's like a real team effort. It's like basically everyone is kind of sacrificing a lot to do this very low budget thing and make it look good and make it the best that it can be, and having the highest hopes for something knowing that you don't have the huge back of a studio. I think it makes you hungrier." [4] With news of the project coming soon after the release of her second film in the Scream franchise made some call Berrera the new "scream queen". [5] [6]

Filming

The film was shot in twenty days in Hoboken, New Jersey. [7]

Release

The film premiered in the Midnight section at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival on January 18, 2024. [8] In March 2024, Vertical Entertainment acquired distribution rights to the film. [9] The film is scheduled to release on October 25, 2024. [10] [11] [12]

Reception

Accolades

AwardCeremony dateCategoryRecipient(s)ResultRef.
Sun Valley Film Festival3 March 2024Best Narrative Feature FilmYour MonsterNominated [13]
Best Performance in a Feature Film Melissa Barrera Special mention [13]
Sundance London 9 June 2024Audience Favorite AwardYour MonsterWon [14]
Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival 21 April 2024International CompetitionRunner-up [lower-alpha 1] [15]

Notes

  1. ↑ Shared with Cuckoo .

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  2. ↑ Kroll, Justin (April 13, 2023). "'Scream' Star Melissa Barrera Reunites With Radio Silence On Secret Monster Movie For Universal". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on April 13, 2023. Retrieved April 14, 2023.
  3. ↑ Galuppo, Mia (March 6, 2023). "Melissa Barrera Headlining Horror Romance 'Your Monster'". Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on March 6, 2023. Retrieved March 7, 2023.
  4. ↑ Nemiroff, Perri (March 12, 2023). "'Scream VI': Melissa Barrera Shares the Changes to Sam She Pushed for After Reading the Script's First Draft". Collider. Archived from the original on March 12, 2023. Retrieved March 12, 2023.
  5. ↑ Villegas, Ana Karina (March 7, 2023). "Melissa Barrera settles as "Scream Queen" with new horror project". Noticine.com. Archived from the original on March 17, 2023. Retrieved March 17, 2023.
  6. ↑ DeVore, Britta (July 26, 2024). "Melissa Barrera Returns as a Scream Queen in First 'Your Monster' Footage [Exclusive]". Collider. Retrieved July 26, 2024.
  7. ↑ Ryan, Gary (June 1, 2023). "Melissa Barrera: "As a Latino, most of the opportunities are to play immigrants"". nme. Archived from the original on June 4, 2023. Retrieved June 3, 2023.
  8. ↑ D'Alessandro, Anthony; Patten, Dominic (December 6, 2023). "Sundance Unveils Packed 2024 Lineup That Includes A.I., Pedro Pascal, Kristen Stewart, Satan, Devo & Steven Yeun". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved December 6, 2023.
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