Joel treks all the way back to his colony, and they too decide to head to the mountains. They share a romantic goodbye kiss, and Aimee promises she will find him. Joel recommends Aimee and her colony head north. The crab leaves Joel unharmed and instead kills Cap and his crew, sinking the yacht in the process. Joel has the opportunity to kill the crab, but he realizes it is not hostile by looking into its eyes, and shoots the electrified chain, freeing it. Cap sets the crab to feed on the colonists, but Joel and Aimee escape and are able to fight for their lives, and Boy returns to help. Cap reveals that his group is there to steal supplies and that their yacht is towed by a crab-monster controlled with an electrified chain. Joel, Aimee, and the rest of her colony awaken tied-up on the beach. Realizing Cap is not to be trusted, he rushes to warn Aimee but is knocked unconscious. Cap sends Joel some berries, which he recognizes as poisonous. Joel decides to return to his colony, contacting them on the radio and learning that it has become unsafe and that they too must leave. 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. He is introduced to the survivors, Cap, 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. He 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.Д¬ontinuing west, Boy becomes trapped by a giant centipede-monster.

They invite Joel to stay with 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 Connor, 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 survivors but he have romantically paired up with each other 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. The destruction of an asteroid headed for Earth releases chemical fallout, causing cold-blooded animals to mutate into large monsters and kill off most of humanity. At the 93rd Academy Awards, the film was nominated for Best Visual Effects, but lost to Tenet. The film received generally positive reviews from critics. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the studio opted to release the film digitally via video on demand, and in select theatres, on October 16, 2020. Love and Monsters was originally going to receive a wide theatrical release by Paramount Pictures in February 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.Дevelopment began in 2012 as Monster Problems, the project lingered for several years until in October 2018, O'Brien and then Matthews joined the film. Love and Monsters is a 2020 American monster adventure film directed by Michael Matthews, with Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen serving as producers.

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