The Giant is a 2019 French-American mystery crime thriller film written and directed by David Raboy and starring Odessa Young.
[1] A girl named Charlotte and her friends, including Olivia, Will, Brady, Lauren and Joe, are graduating from high school in Monroeville, Alabama.
Brady begins acting strangely and, expressing belief that his girlfriend was murdered by someone, tells Charlotte that "he" catches people at parties and she is just "his" type.
She recalls her mother often standing facing the house's back door, telling her that "life seems full of hope, but I've come to know better, and I'm afraid you will too."
During a visit to the old house, Charlotte dreams of a shadowy giant who tries to choke her to death, but she wakes up in her own bed with Olivia nearby.
Upon arriving, Charlotte tells Olivia that she feels that hosting the party in this house is a bad omen and that something terrible will happen.
Olivia is drunk and does not want to leave at first, but eventually agrees when Charlotte reminds her of the promise they made to keep each other safe.
[5] Andrew Barker of Variety gave the film a negative review and wrote "But Raboy gives us so little to hang onto – be it an arresting image, a palpable touch of the uncanny, or a moment of real tension – that it gets harder and harder to want to follow him.
"[6] Caryn James of The Hollywood Reporter also gave the film a negative review, calling it "Well-directed but hollow and tiresome.