Finn Wolfhard Directs Gladiator II’s Fred Hechinger in Hell of a Summer season Trailer

Following its world premiere on the 2023 Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant, Neon’s upcoming horror comedy Hell of a Summer season has lastly acquired its official trailer. The undertaking hails from Stranger Issues vet Finn Wolfhard, who isn’t any stranger to the horror style, after beforehand starring in Warner Bros.’ It motion pictures and Sony Photos’ newest Ghostbusters motion pictures.

The Hell of a Summer season trailer brings the viewers to Camp Pineway, the place a gaggle of youngsters is tasked to turn into camp counselors. Nevertheless, simply earlier than summer season camp begins, they discover themselves trapped in a nightmare because of the sudden arrival of a masked killer, who’s looking every of them one after the other. The video additionally teases a number of the film’s grotesque kill sequences, in addition to a glimpse of the loopy shenanigans they’ll do for the sake of survival. Following its debut at TIFF, the movie earned the second runner-up spot for the Individuals’s Selection Award for Midnight Insanity.

Hell of a Summer season serves because the function directorial debut of Wolfhard and Billy Bryk, who each co-wrote the movie’s screenplay. This marks their newest collaboration, after initially co-starring in Jason Reitman’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Jesse Eisenberg’s When You End Saving the World. In response to the artistic duo, their undertaking was impressed by Edgar Wright’s basic zombie film Shaun of the Lifeless, which allowed them to craft a narrative “the place persons are given full license to be bizarre and narcissistic within the face of demise.” Wolfhard and Bryk additionally confirmed that the concept for the slasher comedy truly got here from their frustrations of seeing new teen motion pictures that “badly” represented their technology.

The official synopsis for Hell of a Summer season reads, “the movie follows 24-year-old camp counselor Jason Hochberg (Hechinger), 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.” Wolfhard and Bryk are additionally starring within the film, alongside Fred Hechinger (Concern Avenue trilogy), Abby Quinn (Knock on the Cabin), D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai (Reservation Canines), Adam Pally (The Mindy Mission), Julia Doyle (Workin’ Mothers), and Krista Nazaire (The Hardy Boys).

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What’s Subsequent for Finn Wolfhard?

After Hell of a Summer season, Wolfhard will subsequent be seen within the fifth and closing season of Stranger Issues, the place he’ll be reprising his position as Mike Wheeler for the final time after almost a decade of enjoying the character. The hit Netflix collection will make its highly-anticipated return someday this yr. As well as, Wolfhard can be set to reunite with Reitman for the upcoming remake of Sony Photos’ 1999 horror basic Idle Fingers, which initially starred Devon Sawa and Jessica Alba. Previous to this, Wolfhard was a part of the ensemble forged of Reitman’s 2024 dramedy Saturday Night time, which chronicled the behind-the-scenes story of Saturday Night time Stay’s first episode.

Hell of a Summer season debuts in theaters on April 18.

Supply: Neon