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Closet Monster
A closeted Newfoundland teen is desperate to escape his hometown and the haunting memories of his turbulent childhood. When he falls for a handsome, worldly co-worker at the hardware store, he is forced to confront his fears.
14 June 1988, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
18 June 1952, Rome, Lazio, Italy
23 June 1994, Canada
1978, Bay d'Espoir, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
13 May 1952, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
12 May 1978, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
September 30, 2016
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.September 23, 2016
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.September 20, 2016
It's when Stephen Dunn dares to inhabit the how and not the what of queerness that the film feels authentic and deliciously strange.December 26, 2016
If you didn't think a hamster voiced by Isabella Rossellini could make you cry, think again.September 29, 2016
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.March 03, 2017
Somehow that revolutionary, empowering message never got through to Dunn. His film seems sexually and psychologically arrested in the pathology that blocks coming out.September 29, 2016
It's nothing less than an emotional exorcism.October 24, 2016
Sort of a horror film, but not really. It's too funny to be categorized that way.December 12, 2016
A psychological thriller that has the ability to leave no one indifferent, something that makes one of the pearls to discover this year and a future cult title. [Full review in Spanish]October 13, 2016
A film school thesis project that somehow found its way into general release.September 23, 2016
Closet Monster is most successful when it uses fable-like qualities to allow us to feel Oscar's emotions viscerally rather than narratively.November 30, 2016
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.