Even at 80 minutes, this felt way too long. What could’ve been an amazing short film is instead a pretty mediocre ~emotional horror flick with decent acting, a crazy cool creature that isn’t shown nearly enough, and a pretty great scene about peanut wine.

could have been a cute short but inflating it to 80+ minutes doesn't help the cause. couple of scenes are too long, the supporting cast (the characters created essentially) are redundant if not annoying and distracting from what they are actually going for and the tonal (mis-)shift of drama, comedy and horror becomes very apparent by stretching it to this minimum length for a feature.

Second viewing I loved as much as the first. The editing and sound editing in this movie is great. The way it pulls you from romantic flashback to crushing present-day reality is jarring but effectively relatable to anyone who has gone through the pain of losing someone.

The first time viewing, I thought the monster was supposed to represent his loneliness and pain in the form of a physical manifestation. But this time watching, I think it's supposed to represent his selfishness and his own demons. His inability to give the person he loves what she needs due to a form of arrested development. He's not the victim of the monster but rather the creator of it and the one who needs to defeat it.

Or, who knows, it might just be a monster

Oh wow. A long time since I’ve hated a movie so much. This feels like it was designed to bend me in all the wrong ways. Combines a day-one post rock soundtrack with sad-boy-drunk culture glorification to achieve maximum punishment. This Gardner dude wants to be part of the horror community but he also wants to make mixtapes for girls who listen to the Shins. Phoney as fuck. I'm in a really bad mood now!

wish it would've focused more on the monster and trying to be an actual horror film, but i don't have any complaints apart from that

“You say, I only hear what I want to...”

You were always right, baby.

That’s good stuff. 

Much more emotionally raw than you expect with only tiny flecks of horror sprinkled throughout, but the finale really brought it home for me.

Worth the ride. 

Also, that Lisa Loeb breakdown. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I love Brea Grant and I’ve been meaning to watch this for 5 years now how does that even happen wow. But I finally did watch it and really loved it!

Half monster movie/half romance, neither are particularly great genres for me, but together they somehow work here. The characters are all deeply flawed and it’s very easy to connect with them because of that. The actors do an amazing job and have great chemistry. The scenes between Jeremy Gardner and Brea Grant are terrific and I feel like I’ve said some of the exact same shit as Brea did because parts gave me that weird deja vu feeling you get when something hits really close and you can’t remember why.

Jeremy Gardner singing Lisa Loeb’s Stay will absolutely rip your fucking heart out and make it look like the one in the poster.

When Abby suddenly walks out on her long time boyfriend Hank, he's left alone in their country home to reflect on the past. He's also convinced that a strange creature lurks the grounds at night, but has trouble getting anyone else to believe him.

This story focuses most on the love story of Hank and Abby; the creature-feature horror bits are secondary. Some will find this disappointing, but I was pleasantly surprised with it. There are some very well done intimate conversations between the couple that anyone who has ever felt like they are treading water in a relationship that has lost its spark can probably relate to.

Not as predictable as you might think, the plot turns surprised me more than once. I really enjoyed writer and co-director Jeremy Gardner's performance as Hank and will definitely be checking out his other feature, The Battery.