Wait, Stranger Things’ Finn Wolfhard Co-Directed a Summer Camp Slasher Comedy?

Given long intervals between Stranger Things‘ Fourth and The long awaited upcoming fifth seasonNo wonder its cast members are busy with other projects. Created by David Harbour Marvel’s lightning*; Millie Bobby Brown has the Russo Brothers Electric state Next up on his growing Netflix docket. But from what we can tell, only one Hawkins, Indiana hero co-directed, co-wrote, And Co-stars in a movie during the break: Finn Wolfhard, whose slasher comedy dropped a trailer today.

Hell of a Summer It actually premiered at the 2023 Toronto Film Festival, which means in between Stranger Things Four seasons into 2022, Wolfhard is also busy with even more Project (including acting Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire) but we’re still impressed by the level of overachievement here. Watch the red-band trailer for his journey through the horrors of summer camp.

The official synopsis reads: “Hell of a Summer Follows 24-year-old camp counselor Jason Hochberg (Fred Hechinger), who arrives at Camp Pineway thinking his biggest problem is that he feels out of touch with his teenage peers. What he doesn’t know is that a masked killer lurks on the camp grounds, brutally picking off the counselors one by one.”

It’s no coincidence that the main character is definitely named Jason. The movie clearly rips off several tongue-and-cheek pages Friday the 13th-And Friday the 13th Episode 2Both films about counselors are picked up before the camp actually opens for business—but also have fun with other genre tropes. Ouija, anyone?

Wolfhard (who co-wrote and co-directed with Billy Brick) co-stars in a cast that includes Brick, Abby Quinn, D’Pharaoh Un-A-Tai, Pardis Saremi, Rosebud Bakery and Adam Paley. Hell of a Summer arrives in theaters on April 18, just in time to start rethinking all your camping plans.

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