# Monster Summer (2024)

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**Runtime**: 98 min
**Genres**: Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery, Horror
**Directed by**: David Henrie
**Written by**: Cornelius Uliano, Bryan Schulz
**Starring**: Mel Gibson, Mason Thames, Julian Lerner, Abby James Witherspoon, Noah Cottrell, Nora Zehetner

> *It's the summer when everything changed.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Mid-July, 6:14 p.m. — the island’s only ice-cream truck jingle cuts to static for the third time.

Noah and his friends trace rust-red handprints through the dunes, the tide swallowing each print before the next.

David Henrie’s Adventure drifts into childhood campfire horror without once naming its monster.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, neon-soaked, outsider, slow-burn

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