To Love A Monster
Short Film - 2025
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Logline: After being set up on a date, a romance-obsessed monster must tame his grotesque features or risk losing his last chance at love.
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Genre: Fantasy, Comedy
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Script Length: 6 pages​
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Production Date: February 6th-9th
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Expected Completion Date: May 2025
Joey accepted three awards at Highlands Horrorfest in Johnson City, Tennessee. The awards were for Best Practical Effects, Best Lead Actress, and Best Director for the film "The Brothers Grim"
Link to my Venmo!
What is it?
So, welcome to the world of To Love A Monster, where college-age monsters can be obsessed with romance movies and be set up on dates by their colorful, extravagant human roommates. In this case, the monster is Boris, the roommate is Mary, and the date is with a human named Lily.
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All of this might sound familiar because I actually made this story once before for my film class but I only had 8 weeks to write, plan, shoot, and edit the whole thing and, with time, I have thought of so many fun ways to give this story all that it deserves!
Storyboards Drawn by Me
Brief Synopsis
After being set up on a date, a romance-obsessed monster, Boris, rushes to tame his grotesque features but to no avail. Mary, his vain, self-confident roommate swoops in to help him but finds she is in for more than she bargained for...
Concept drawing of Boris' Bedroom by Mia Waugh (Art Director/Production Designer)
Key Crew (and building)
Writter/Director/Editor: Joey Carrier
Producers: Joey Carrier and Keelie Williams
Starring:
Ethan Harbin - "Boris"
Maddy Rose - "Mary"
Jolene Mafnas - “Lily"
Production Designer/Art Director: Mia Waugh
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Director of Photography: Annelix Rodriguez Gonzalez​
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Gaffer: Paul Langi
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Editor/Composer: Joey Carrier
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Costume Designer: Laura Carrier
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SFX Makeup Artist: Megan Bussell
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Assistant Director: Mylo Caudill
Boris' Costume Ideation by Laura Carrier (Costume Designer)
How Can You Help?
Well, it's expensive to make films. In this case, $3,000 in expenses WHICH is a lot of money...
In the past, my crew and I have always done IndieGoGo campaigns to meet our budgets, and while it always worked, going through websites means them taking a large sum of the money that is raised, leaving us with less money than we need...
To remedy this, we've decided it'd be best to have direct donations; that way every bit of donated money goes straight to the film and doesn't get lost somewhere in the middle.
If 100 people give $30, then we can do it!
Lily's Costume Ideation by Laura Carrier (Costume Designer)
What do you get?
Every donation, even as small as $5 will get the donor their name in the credits and a special thanks message from the crew!
- Any donations of $30 will get their names on a poster in Boris' room and all previous perks!
- Any donations of $100 or more will have their picture in a movie or band poster in Boris' room and all previous perks!
- Any donations of $500 or over will get an executive producer credit and all previous perks!
Miniature German Expressionist Street by Joey Carrier
Where do I donate?
All money amounts can be sent to me directly using Venmo!
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@joemeisterc
Last four digits: 2181
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Thank you so much for any and all donations and I can't wait to make this movie!!! :)))))
Joey, Mia, and Laura with the Award for Best Production Design for the film "The Brothers Grim" at The Buried Alive Film Festival in Atlanta, Georgia