Yahoo Lifestyle “Stranger Things”' Finn Wolfhard faces masked camp killer in first “Hell of a Summer” trailer
Wolfhard directed and wrote the movie with Billy Bryk, and after a few years, it's finally ready to hit screens.
Forget Vecna...Well, let's not entirely forget Vecna. Stranger Things season 5 is still on the docket to debut this year. But before then, Finn Wolfhard must face a different demon.
Neon debuted the first Hell of a Summer trailer, showcasing the horror-comedy Wolfhard directed and wrote with his pal Billy Bryk (When You Finish Saving the World). He also stars in the movie with Bryk and Fred Hechinger of Gladiator 2 fame.
The premise of Hell of a Summer centers around Jason Hochberg (Hechinger), a 24-year-old who used to be a sort of boy wonder but is getting too old to be a camp counselor at Camp Pineway. He feels out of touch with his teenage co-workers, but he soon has much bigger problems to worry about when he realizes there's a masked killer picking off counselors one by one.
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"It's a slasher movie where people start dying and everyone blames it on him," Wolfhard, who filmed Hell of a Summer when he was 20, previously commented to Entertainment Weekly, "and it's about the ensemble of teenagers trying to survive the night." D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai (Reservation Dogs), Abby Quinn (Mad About You), and Pardis Saremi (Career Opportunities in Murder & Mayhem) are also featured in the film.
Hell of a Summer has been around for a while. Wolfhard and Bryk shot it in the summer of 2022, and the film later had its world premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival. "Every day on set we'd just start laughing. 'Oh my God, they gave money to two kids to make a crazy [movie],'" Wolfhard, who's now 22, told EW. "Not to downplay it, I'm incredibly proud of it, but it was a crazy thing."
Neon only picked up the film for distribution last August, and it's finally getting released this year. Wolfhard said it was "daunting" to step up as director at such a young age, but he ultimately feels age doesn't define filmmaking in any way.
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"Since I was maybe 10 or 11, I've been watching tons of movies, I've been watching behind the scenes on movies, I would stay after work on set to watch all the directors and learn from them and how sets work," he said. "So I felt a little in my element at some points. At some points, I felt completely terrified and like I was flailing, but we had a great cast and crew. It was great. It was all the things, right? It was a small movie in the middle of nowhere in Canada, and it was incredible and hilarious. It was one of the best experiences of my life."
Watch the Hell of a Summer trailer above.
Read the original article on Entertainment Weekly
