Barrera plays Laura, an actress whom we first meet as she's going in for cancer treatment. Her writer-composer boyfriend Jacob has created a stage musical with a lead character inspired by her, but he abandons her while she's recovering in the hospital. Not only that, but Jacob has also recast her part in their play with a hot, famous actress.
Distraught, Laura returns to her childhood home and, amid her endless wallows in sadness, discovers that the house has been taken over by the monster that she used to imagine living in her closet and under her bed. Turns out he's real, his name is Monster, and he's a long-haired, soft-spoken beast that just wants to be left alone.
It's a musically inflected dark romantic comedy, a delicate enterprise that requires a beaming central performance to pull off. Barrera is clearly meant for better things than stiffly reciting wooden slasher-movie dialogue in lifeless Scream retreads.
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