Cruel Summer

A flashlight is used to shatter a window in an episode of Cruel Summer
A flashlight is used to shatter a window in an episode of Cruel Summer, with VFX completed by Foxtrot X-Ray

Project Type

Episodic

Network

Freeform

Director

Various

Cruel Summer is an unconventional thriller that takes place over three summers--1993, 1994, and 1995--in a small Texas town as a beautiful, popular teen, Kate, is abducted and a seemingly-unrelated girl, Jeanette, goes from being a sweet loner to the most popular girl in town--and by 1995, the most-despised person in America. (IMDb)

Foxtrot X-Ray collaborated with our friends at Austin, TX’s Moontower VFX for 5 episodes of Freeform’s hit series "Cruel Summer.” Foxtrot X-Ray contributed 67 shots, including cleanup, day for night, screen comps, greenscreen / bluescreen, relighting, and some time-bending effects as the show shifts from one timeframe to another in what appear to be seamless shots.

Here’s one of many, many trailers for Season 1!