A brand new retro-style poster for the Finn Wolfhard horror comedy Hell of a Summer season pays tribute to the slasher basic Promenade Night time
Some time again, Stranger Issues and Ghostbusters: Afterlife actor Finn Wolfhard made his function directorial debut with a horror comedy known as Hell of a Summer season, which he directed alongside Billy Bryk, who additionally appeared in Ghostbusters: Afterlife. JoBlo’s personal Chris Bumbray had the possibility to observe the film on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition final 12 months and gave it a 5/10 evaluation than could be learn at THIS LINK. The movie secured a U.S. distribution cope with NEON final summer time, with their plan being to present it a theatrical launch on April 4th. Earlier this week, we noticed a retro-style poster for the movie that paid tribute to the 1981 slasher basic Pleased Birthday to Me, and now our associates at Bloody Disgusting have shared one other retro-style Hell of a Summer season poster, created by Creepy Duck Design – and this one pays tribute to the 1980 slasher basic Promenade Night time! Each the Promenade Night time poster and the tribute poster could be seen on the backside of this text.
Months earlier than Hell of a Summer season was formally introduced, Wolfhard stated that he was planning to make his function directorial debut with “a horror-comedy-slasher movie that takes place at a camp.” Certain sufficient, that’s what this film is. The story follows counselors who’re getting Camp Pineway prepared the evening earlier than campers arrive when a masked killer begins slaughtering the workers. Right here’s the official synopsis: The movie follows 24-year-old camp counselor Jason Hochberg, who arrives at Camp Pineway pondering his greatest downside is that he feels out of contact together with his teenage co-workers. What he doesn’t know is {that a} masked killer is lurking on the campgrounds, brutally choosing counselors off one after the other. Selection notes that Wolfhard and Bryk have stated they wrote the movie with a aim of upending Gen Z stereotypes.
Wolfhard and Bryk each star of their directorial effort and are joined within the solid by Fred Hechinger (the Concern Road trilogy) as Jason Hochberg, plus D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai (Reservation Canines), Abby Quinn (Mad About You), and Pardis Saremi (Profession Alternatives in Homicide and Mayhem).
30West financed and government produced Hell of a Summer season. Hechinger produced the movie alongside Mixture Movies, Components and Labor Manufacturing, Jason Bateman, Michael Costigan, Drew Brennan, and Jay Van Hoy. Filming happened in Ontario, Canada.
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