Your Monster (2024): Review and Summary

It’s a romance, it’s a revenge tale, it is Melissa Barrera proving she doesn’t need “Scream” to be a movie star.


Film Length1 Hour 38 Minutes
Advisory RatingRated R
Release DateOctober 25, 2024
Initially Available On/ViaTheatrical
Genre(s)Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
DistributorVertical Entertainment
DirectorCaroline Lindy
WriterCaroline Lindy
Character NameActor
LauraMelissa Barrera
JacobEdmund Donovan
MonsterTommy Dewey

Plot Summary

For at least 5 years, Jacob and Laura dated and during that time she helped him make his first Broadway musical, “House of Good Women.” She didn’t just read lines but helped him workshop and mold the musical into something worthy of Broadway but when Laura got sick, Jacob dumped her to focus all his attention on his work.

Now, after surgery, Laura is drowning in her own tears in her absent mother’s home, where she comes across Monster. Someone who clearly has a connection to Laura but with her not recognizing him, she treats him as someone new in her life and as he goes from frightening to comforting, Laura harnesses who she is and was outside of Jacob and reintroduces herself to the world.

Character Descriptions

Laura

Laura is a musical theater nerd who didn’t necessarily raise herself, but the way she paints her mother, she wasn’t very active in her life. But, thankfully, Laura had Golden Age Hollywood musicals to keep her company and whenever she is feeling down, she watches Gene Kelly or others to get her spirits up.

Jacob

Jacob is the writer and director of “House of Good Women” which is supposed to be his ode to women and what they go through. Unbeknowst to most, however, he is worst than any man in his musical.

  • The actor is also known for their role in “Tell Me Lies.”

Monster

Monster is Laura’s anger.

Other Noteworthy Information

  • Movie Contains: Cursing, Gore, Blood, Torture, Sexual Situations (Implied)
  • The distributor is also known for “Miss Juneteenth.”

Review

Our Rating: Positive (Worth Seeing)

Audience

“Your Monster” is made for those who tend to forget themselves and be there for everyone else, and need a reminder it is okay to get angry, demand reciprocity, and set boundaries.

Highlights

The Role Of Laura’s Monster

Lynds Gallant, on Twitter/ X put up this quote in 2020 which pretty much summarizes the film:

As you watch Monster interact with Laura, encourage her to feel rather just cry it out until she is numb, it almost seems like Caroline Lindy saw that quote and built a entire movie around it. Which really pushes you to honor, embrace, and exhibit your anger. For never mind protecting and setting boundaries, your anger also is what makes you passionate about the safety of others, and flares up your passion to be good and demand to be seen and taken seriously.

I’d even say, when Laura is singing “A Song For You” to her anger, it really hits you how much her anger means to her despite her shutting it out and trying to live a life which was demure, mindful, but also a disservice to everything she is.

How It Ended

Throughout the movie, the focus is on Jacob’s musical, “House of Good Women” and you’d may think like any film that isn’t a musical which talks about a musical, you may hear a few lines, or part of a song, but no kind of finished product. That isn’t the case with “Your Monster.” Laura’s final scene, the final scene in the movie, is an epic song, which rivals some of the stuff we’ve seen live, and creates one of the best, mic drop endings we’ve seen in a long time. There is no fade to black when it comes to “Your Monster,” it leaves you having the feelings or words of “Oh wow.”

The Monster

Tommy Dewey as Monster will give you Jim Carrey as “The Grinch” vibes, but less playing to a crowd of kids. I’d even say, there is a touch of Ryan Reynolds in his comedy that makes it so, I wouldn’t say he delivers the funniest performance you’ve ever seen, not even seen this year, but for Laura’s journey, he is a perfect supporting character.

On The Fence

There Is A Chance You May Grow Tired Of Laura’s Feelings Towards Jacob

I’m not going to lie, watching Barrera as Laura cry over Jacob for a good part of the beginning of the movie was annoying. Someone even walked out of the theater because, it is a series of scenes you recognize are meant to be funny, but “Your Monster” doesn’t do well the crying, eating a copious amount of food, montage. But, as Monster distracts Laura and makes her focus on their relationship and her relationship with other people, thankfully that stops and she stops crying over someone who doesn’t deserve her tears.

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