Seven years after the Monsterpocalypse, Joel Dawson, along with the rest of humanity, has been living underground ever since giant creatures took control of the land. After reconnecting over the radio with his high school girlfriend, Aimee, who is now 80 miles away at a coastal colony, Joel realizes how much he misses her. Joel was stuck in an underground bunker where he felt like he was not much help. He decided to venture above ground for the first time in years. His fellow bunkmates warned him, saying it was a suicide mission but despite all the dangerous monsters that stood in his way, he made his way to Aimee’s colony. 

I thought this movie was going to feature mankind turning into zombies and destroying the human race and then the humans would fight back; just your typical apocalypse movies which are all the same. Instead, the majority of  humans were hiding away in bunkers or caves and cowering away from the newly advanced creatures that threatened human life. I think this is an accurate representation of  what humans would do when faced with this type of threat. Love and Monsters explains how quickly the government fell and how looters and violence arose within the first few months of the apocalypse. People were terrified of what was above ground so they sacrificed their freedom and lived in fear for years. When Joel ventures above ground he runs into only monsters and for miles he fights to stay alive. The most shocking part is when he finally runs into humans and they offer to help him get to Amiees colony, alive. These strangers teach him everything they have learned about the monsters and how to survive above ground. Joel finally has a realization that staying underground is not the way humans should be living. He fought for love by making an impossible journey and it made him realize how much people are missing out just by hiding away.