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Closet Monster
Directed by
Stephen Lush
Not Rated
2016
90m
Drama
,
Mystery
,
and more
7.0
83%
73%
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A creative and driven teenager is desperate to escape his hometown and the haunting memories of his turbulent childhood.
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Cast of Closet Monster
Connor Jessup
Oscar Madly (18)
Aaron Abrams
Peter Madly
Joanne Kelly
Brin Madly
Aliocha Schneider
Wilder
Sofia Banzhaf
Gemma
Jack Fulton
Oscar Madly (9)
Mary Walsh
Allison
Isabella Rossellini
Buffy (voice)
Jinji Dawson
Anna
Meghan Cullen
Kathryn
Brad Nippard
Teenage Boy
Megan Kennedy
News Reporter
Sean Panting
Constable Bennett
Megan Rose Jones
Ms. Mercer
Tim Myles
Student
Wangeci Warui
Hardware Store Customer
Jonathan Watton
Larry
Emma McIsaac
Mercedes
Teigan Follett
Greg
Paula Morgan
Christine
Ross Moore
Newlywed Man
Kimberley Drake
Newlywed Woman
James Hawksley
Andrew
Marthe Bernard
Bridgette
Renee Dumaresque
Bridgette's Friend
Leah McPherson
Additional Voices (voice)
Stephen Lush
Director / Writer
Kevin Krikst
Producer
Fraser Ash
Producer
Edward J. Martin
Producer
Closet Monster Ratings & Reviews
Horror Queers Podcast
Joe Lipsett
A stunning feature directorial debut from Stephen Dunn that beautifully captures the difficulty of coming out, internalized homophobia, first crushes, and divorce
The Pink Lens
Ben Turner
As a film about sexual awakenings, Closet Monster is commendable in its focus not on the mechanics of sexuality, but instead on its ramifications.
My New Plaid Pants
Jason Adams
If I've said it once I have said it a million billion trillion times - every movie needs to have Isabella Rossellini voicing a hamster.
Bay Area Reporter
David Lamble
Deliciously [mixes] genres from domestic comedy to teen horror/fantasy.
San Francisco Chronicle
G. Allen Johnson
One way to tell a promising director is by the acting in his or her film, and the performances in "Closet Monster" are solid all the way around, no matter how small the role.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
If it all doesn't work perfectly, that's oddly okay, the character-driven highs making up for the bits and pieces that fail to reach the same sort of unpredictably enthralling heights so much of the rest thankfully soars to.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
Sort of a horror film, but not really. It's too funny to be categorized that way.
San Diego Reader
Scott Marks
A film school thesis project that somehow found its way into general release.
PopMatters
Argun Ulgen
If Dunn can direct his next work with more considered distance from his characters, he has a great future as an inventive and assured film director.
IndieWire
Kate Erbland
Dunn plays around with perspective and style, but all the flash doesn't obscure the film's emotion and heart, which are deep and true.
Los Angeles Times
Gary Goldstein
It's nothing less than an emotional exorcism.
Film Journal International
David Noh
The determined eccentricity of the entire conceit-liberally laced with moments of hallucinatory surrealism-weighs the movie down, creating an airless ambiance at odds with any youthful verve which might appeal to the viewer.
RogerEbert.com
Odie Henderson
Closet Monster is most successful when it uses fable-like qualities to allow us to feel Oscar's emotions viscerally rather than narratively.
Variety
Dennis Harvey
A most auspicious debut.
New York Times
Ken Jaworowski
Connor Jessup wonderfully inhabits the teenage Oscar, who observes others while trying to find himself. Aaron Abrams, as his father, and Aliocha Schneider and Sofia Banzhaf, as friends, are just as multilayered.
Village Voice
Chuck Wilson
It wouldn't work at all if the filmmaker hadn't lucked into an actor as gifted as Jessup.
Slant Magazine
Diego Semerene
It's when Stephen Dunn dares to inhabit the how and not the what of queerness that the film feels authentic and deliciously strange.
The Film Stage
Jared Mobarak
[The film's] trajectory might be obvious and on a well-tread path, but the way it unfolds is wholly unique in its theatrical language.
The Film Experience
Nathaniel Rogers
It's the best English language teen LGBT film in recent years.
Playback:stl
Sarah Boslaugh
...finds a balance between simply pouring new content into an old form, and becoming so esoteric that the strengths of that form are lost.
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