The smaller of the two is called Bokeh, a Kickstarter-assisted sci-fi drama about a couple on vacation in Iceland when the rest of the world's population disappears. The 21-year-old also has two other completed projects arriving soon.
In addition to well-received releases in 2014, Monroe wrapped shooting on a pair of movies and just signed on to star in the drama The Tribes of Palos Verdes with Tye Sheridan and Jennifer Garner. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. As the lead in a horror movie, you are the audience, and you have to provide the nuance of real life in very unrealistic situations. That sounds simple enough, but when that teen's life is suddenly disrupted by a traumatic sexual experience and the subsequent plight of being stalked by an unstoppable malevolent force, you have to keep the audience believably engaged. For It Follows, she plays Jay, an easygoing, well-adjusted teenager with a super ordinary suburban life. She looks like the third Fanning sister and feels like she could be seamlessly swapped into any role played by Elizabeth Olsen. Monroe has a haunting, soft beauty on screen. I was just thinking 'I want to play this role. "I feel like both movies have a kind of throwback feel to them. "I remember reading The Guest and thinking 'This is going to be something!'" she says. Follows premiered to broad acclaim in May, then in September her second genre picture of the year, The Guest (directed by Adam Wingard), garnered huge critical praise even if it only got a narrow theatrical release.