Melissa Barrera Interview: Continuing to Soar in Horror with Your Monster

Melissa Barrera will continue to thrive in the horror genre in 2024. Not only does her upcoming feature, Abigail, look like yet another wild and riveting ride from Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, but now she’s also got a Sundance selection poised to delight genre lovers as soon as it secures distribution. (And it better!)

Writer-director Caroline Lindy makes her feature debut with Your Monster, a piece based on “true-ish” events. Barrera leads as Laura Franco, an actress whose world is rocked when the person she thought was the love of her life (Edmund Donovan) leaves her when she needs him most, after powering through a serious illness. While at her childhood home recovering, Laura finds an unexpected ally — the monster in her closet. With Monster (Tommy Dewey) at her back, Laura taps into her suppressed rage, regains her power, and does what’s necessary to get the opportunities and respect she deserves.

While in Park City celebrating Your Monster’s World Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, Barrera, Dewey, Donovan, Meghann Fahy and Kayla Foster all swung by the Collider Interview Studio brought to you by Film.io to chat with Perri about their dream collaboration with Lindy, Barrera’s experience going to places with her character she didn’t realize she was capable of reaching, and loads more! 

Hear about it all straight from Barrera, Dewey, Donovan, Fahy and Foster in this Your Monster interview from Sundance 2024!

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