Movie Review: CLOSET MONSTER

CLOSET MONSTER (Canada 2015) ***
Directed by Stephen Dunn

Starring: Connor Jessup, Aaron Abrams, Isabella Rossellini

Review by Gilbert Seah

When the first queer films were made, coming out was a hot topic. Now decades later when LGBTs are accepted and it is considered more incorrect to be prejudiced than to be LGBT, the issue of coming out is no longer than big an issue. CLOSET MONSTER treats the issue as still relevant, made so because the subject coming out is till as stressed as the first gay doing so decades back and that he has a class A asshole father.

So, CLOSET MONSTER is a Newfie movie of an East Coast teenager and aspiring special-effects makeup artist, Oscar (Connor Jessup, BLACKBIRD) struggling with both his sexuality and his fear of his macho asshole father. Oscar has a girlfriend, Gemma (Sofia Banzhaf) but pines for the new cute boy, Wilder…