As everyone celebrates their imminent departure, Aimee confesses she is glad to see Joel, but has become a different person and is still mourning someone she was in love with. He is introduced to the survivors, as well as Brooks "Cap" Wilkinson, a ship captain, and his crew. She leads a beach colony of elderly survivors who depend on her. After swimming across a pond, Joel is covered in poisonous leeches and hallucinates, but is rescued before he collapses. Joel kills the queen with the grenade, and yells at Boy for putting them in danger, causing Boy to run away. They hide, but Boy barks, giving away their position. The next day Joel and Boy are attacked by a queen Sand-Gobbler. Other survivors have reached her colony, promising to lead them to safety. Before her battery dies, Mav1s powers his radio long enough to briefly contact Aimee. Sheltering in an abandoned motel, they meet a robot named Mav1s. Joel freezes, but eventually saves Boy with his crossbow. ![]() As they part ways, Clyde gives Joel a grenade.Ĭontinuing west, Boy becomes trapped by a giant centipede-monster. They invite Joel to join them, but he insists he must find Aimee. They teach Joel some basic survival skills, and that not all monsters are hostile, demonstrating how "You can always tell in their eyes". They are heading north to the mountains, where fewer monsters live due to the colder weather and higher elevation. ![]() Joel falls into a nest of worm-monsters called "Sand-Gobblers", when two survivors, Clyde Dutton and Minnow, rescue him. Passing through the suburbs, Joel is attacked by a giant toad-monster but is saved by a stray dog named "Boy", who follows Joel on his journey, warning him against poisonous berries and other dangers. When a giant ant breaches his colony, killing one of the survivors, Joel sets off on a quest to reunite with Aimee so he doesn't end up alone. Joel instead is left behind in the kitchen, as he freezes in dangerous situations. Seven years later, Joel lives in one of many bunkers underground called "colonies", where all other survivors have romantically paired up while fighting monsters and seeking supplies. During the evacuation of Fairfield, Joel Dawson is separated from his girlfriend Aimee but promises to find her, shortly before his parents are killed by monsters. The destruction of an asteroid headed for Earth releases fallout, causing cold-blooded animals to mutate into large monsters and kill off most of humanity. ![]() The film received generally positive reviews from critics and was nominated for Best Visual Effects at the 93rd Academy Awards. ![]() Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the studio opted to release the film digitally via video on demand, and in select theatres, on Octothe film's international release was handled by Netflix, which released the film on its service on April 14, 2021. Love and Monsters was originally going to receive a wide theatrical release by Paramount Pictures in March 2020. The rest of the cast joined over the next few months, and filming took place in Australia from March to May 2019. The film stars Dylan O'Brien, Jessica Henwick, Dan Ewing, Michael Rooker, and Ariana Greenblatt.ĭevelopment began in 2012 as Monster Problems the project lingered for several years until October 2018 when O'Brien and then Matthews joined the film. Love and Monsters is a 2020 American post-apocalyptic monster adventure film directed by Michael Matthews, with Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen serving as producers.
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