VOD - The Giant : Available On Digital & On Demand Friday, November 13th

By Mulder, 02 november 2020

Charlotte's (Odessa Young) life is changed forever when the teenager's small Georgia town is shaken by the beginning of a series of murders on the same night that her missing boyfriend coincidentally reappears. As an unknown killer on the loose preys on young women over the course of a summer, Charlotte has to navigate this new danger while also struggling to recover from the trauma of her mother's recent suicide. Forced to recognize the world's indifference and lack of easy explanations, Charlotte must reconcile with her adolescent past as she faces an increasingly uncertain future, in this coming-of-age drama tinged with elements of horror and the supernatural.

Director David Raboy crafts a unique impressionistic language with dark, hallucinatory visuals and an eerily atmospheric soundtrack that creeps under your skin and into your bones. In a breakthrough performance, Young is devastating as a teenager suddenly surrounded by menace, fear, heartbreak, and the seemingly random cruelties of existence. A character unto itself, the town's palpable malaise imbues every frame. Taking place on the periphery of tragedy and the precipice of adulthood, this is an unforgettable look at the vulnerability and pain of lost innocence. Riveting, challenging, and suspenseful, Raboy's singular Gothic nightmare is an astonishing feature debut with an underpinning aura of mystery that builds and builds to a conclusion you won't soon forget.

Synopsis:
On her graduation night, Charlotte learns her first love has returned to her small Georgia town for the first time since vanishing the year before, in the midst of an awful trauma in her life. But on that night, a girl her age is found dead – and then another. Something terrible has arisen in this place, and as her final summer speeds towards a nightmarish conclusion, Charlotte gets the unshakeable feeling that somehow it is coming for her – in ways more troubling than she could ever know.

The Giant
Written and Directed by David Raboy
Produced by Dennis Masel, Daniel Dewes, Rachael Fung, Gary Farkas, Clément Lepoutre, Olivier Muller
Starring Odessa Young, Ben Schnetzer, Jack Kilmer, Madelyn Cline, Danny Ramirez, PJ Marshall
Music by Ari Balouzian
Cinematography : Eric Yue
Edited by David Raboy
Production companies : Camera Ready Pictures, Bogie Films, Vixens, Extra A Productions
Distributed by Vertical Entertainment (Unitd States)
Release date : November 13, 2020 (United States) (VOD)
Running time : 99 minutes

(Source : press release)