Your Monster, staring Scream star Melissa Barrera, is a comedy/musical/horror film all about female rage

Imagine having a boyfriend who sleeps under your bed instead of crowding you out of it. Fast facts about Your Monster What: Dumped and depressed, an aspiring Broadway performer moves back into her mum's house — where she awakens the monster from her childhood. Likely to make you feel: Charmed In this New York indie riff on Beauty and the Beast, Scream star Melissa Barrera plays Laura Franco, a sad young theatre performer who — reeling from a bad break-up and a career lull — finds herself falling for the creature who terrorised her as a child. Writer-director Caroline Lindy's debut feature, which is based on her 2019 short of the same name, is an odd little beast — part comedy, part musical, part horror movie, and a pretty neat parable for a certain type of dating scene. Lindy quickly runs out of ways to render Laura and Monster's relationship fresh and funny, leaving the beast adrift in a movie that often has little use for its supernatural element.