![]() Ricci does a lot of heavy-lifting in this sketchy scenario, scripted by Caroline Chrest, and mostly fleshed out by director of photography Senda Bonnet, production designer Mars Feehery, and their respective teams. Langtree (Don Durrell), but he’s only so useful. Laura tries to get some help-with her new home, at least-from the property’s reassuring owner, Mr. But Cody’s having nightmares about a lake monster and, despite his mom’s wishes, he doesn’t want to make new friends at school. Sandman.” She tries to remain in that positive emotional space even when she’s applying herself at a nearby secretarial pool. And we see, through a dream sequence that resembles a scene from “The Creature from the Black Lagoon,” that Laura’s worried about a mysterious brunette (Rachel Edlow).īoth the phone call and the dream intrude on Laura’s world of cozy 1950s décor and dreamy pop songs, like “I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire” and “Mr. We overhear, through an establishing phone conversation, that she’s avoiding Cody’s father. The plot of “Monstrous” develops incrementally through canned revelations that Laura has tried to suppress. ![]()
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