Taglines: The past can pull you under.
Monstrous movie storyline. In the 1950s, Laura and her seven-year-old son, Cody, drive to a remote home in California to flee from her abusive ex-husband. The family is threatened by the possibility of his return as well as the presence of a monster lurking in a nearby lake.
They settle in, she sends her son to school, makes lunch for him and works at a company doing a typing job. Her son seems frightened because some entity from the nearby lake lurks around his room at night. But after a direct encounter with that monster he seems comfortable with it and calls it “pretty lady from the lake”. But still he wants to go home, he always seems sad and depressed and argues with his mom to go back. But she always refuses.
On his birthday she arranges a party and makes invitations for his classmates. But he says no one will come, even when she insists that he should at least give it a chance. Both of them decorate their house with balloons and Laura cooks delicious meals, but no one shows up. Laura gets drunk and quits her job. Then she goes to school to pick up her son but he is nowhere to be seen. She asks a policeman for help.
At the police station, a lady asks Laura to recall the accident that happened to her son last year. Laura says that she was out for groceries, and her husband was looking after their son, but Cody fell into the pool. When she came back he was still there, so she jumped in the pool and tried to save him and paramedics arrived. She insists that they revived her son and he was alright, then asks for water and leaves the police station.
Monstrous is a 2022 American supernatural thriller film directed by Chris Sivertson, written by Carol Chrest, and starring Christina Ricci. The film premiered at the Glasgow Film Festival on March 12, 2022. It was released in the United States on May 13, 2022, by Screen Media.
Monstrous (2022)
Directed by: Chris Sivertson
Starring: Christina Ricci, Colleen Camp, Lew Temple, Nick Vallelonga, Rachael Edlow, Sally Elbert, Aimey Beer, Carol Anne Watts, Darin Cooper, Neraida Bega, Nancy O’Fallon
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Screenplay by: Carol Chrest
Production Design by: Mars Feehery
Cinematography by: Senda Bonnet
Film Editing by: Anjoum Agrama
Costume Design by: Morgan DeGroff
Set Decoration by: Taylor Jean
Art Direction by: Amanda Deprez, Ryan Martin
Music by: Tim Rutili
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for terror, thematic elements and brief violence.
Distributed by: Screen Media Films
Release Date: March 12, 2022 (Glasgow Film Festival), May 13, 2022 (United States)
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