Melissa Barrera (Scream, Abigail) and Tommy Dewey (Casual, Wyrm) are an adorable odd couple in the new trailer for Your Monster, the upcoming horror-comedy love story from writer/director Caroline Lindy.
Hitting theaters on October 25 via Vertical, Your Monster is based on Lindy's 2019 short of the same name, and follows:
[…] tells the story of the soft-spoken actor Laura Franco (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 (Dewey) with whom she finds a connection, encouraging Laura to follow her dreams, open her heart and fall in love with her inner rage.
Alongside Barrera and Dewey, the film stars Edmund Donovan, Kayla Foster, Meghann Fahy, Brandon Victor Dixon, Ike Ufomadu and Lana Young.
Following its premiere at Sundance earlier this year, Your Monster played at Sundance London, where it won Audience Favorite Award.
Today's new trailer is, quite frankly, adorable and pulls the heart strings in all the right ways – Barrera and Dewey look like a perfect modern day Beauty and the Beast, and there's some stylish nods to classic horror including an already-iconic Bride of Frankenstein look.
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Barrera revealed that it was her on-screen chemistry with Dewey that took the Your Monster in a more romantic direction that originally intended:
Originally, in the script, it was more of a banter-y comedy with this monster as a guide. But once we got on set, the chemistry was so good with a lot of the improv that it became a lot more romantic and Beauty and the Beast as we were shooting. That’s one of my favorite Disney princesses, so I love that that’s what it’s reminding people of.
Don't miss Your Monster in theaters on October 25.
