Back in 2020, Maze Runner and Teen Wolf actor Dylan O’Brien made a movie called Love and Monsters that no one knew about, but now, three years after its release, the monster romance is finally getting the attention it has always deserved. Love and Monsters is an adventure movie first released at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The movie stars Dylan O’Brien as Joel Dawson, a young man who lives underground after the Monsterpocalypse left the outside world uninhabitable. However, when he reconnects with his high school girlfriend, Joel decides to brave the monsters for a long-lost love connection.
Although Love and Monsters came out three years ago and stars a fairly well-loved actor, the movie was overlooked in 2020. Of course, this makes sense considering the time frame. Released in the midst of the pandemic, the film was only available on streaming, and by the time of Love and Monsters’ October premiere date, many audiences were likely sick of surfing through Netflix. Therefore, not many people saw the movie. However, three years later, Love and Monsters is getting a new lease on life, and as the film’s Rotten Tomatoes score suggests, it wasn’t always overlooked.
Dylan O’Brien’s Love And Monsters Is Trending On Netflix 3 Years After Its Release
Despite Love and Monsters’ slow start, the movie is finally picking up speed in 2023. Currently available to stream on Netflix, Love and Monsters is holding a steady spot on the streaming services’ Top 10 Movies in the U.S. Alongside it are new movies such as Leave the World Behind, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, and Adam Sandler’s Leo. It is not unheard of for movies released years ago to break the Top 10, but typically, these are films that were already popular upon their release, and have now been added to Netflix. In this way, Love and Monsters’ rise to fame is unique.
A big aspect of Love and Monsters’ newfound popularity is likely Dylan O’Brien. Although the actor has remained active since the end of Teen Wolf in 2017, his roles have not found any particular popularity. His most recent projects that got some hype were Taylor Swift’s short film All Too Well and Zoe Deutch’s film Not Okay. Otherwise, Dylan O’Brien’s movies have gone somewhat under the radar. Therefore, when Love and Monsters returned to Netflix, audience members likely jumped at the chance to see O’Brien in a new project, and in this way, the movie rose to fame three years after its release.
Why Love And Monsters’ Rotten Tomatoes Score Is So High
Another interesting detail about Dylan O’Brien’s Love and Monsters is its Rotten Tomatoes score. Although the film was virtually unknown in 2020, it earned an incredible 94% critics score and a 89% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. According to critics, Love and Monsters has the perfect balance of comedy and sweetness, along with surprisingly good CGI and Dylan O’Brien as the charming lead. So, it seems that Love and Monsters may not have received widespread popularity from audiences when it first came out in 2020, but even back then, critics knew what the movie had to offer. Therefore, Love and Monsters was always a hidden gem waiting to be found.
