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

Given the lengthy hole between Stranger Issues‘ fourth and long-awaited upcoming fifth season, it’s no shock members of its solid have saved busy with different initiatives. David Harbour made Marvel’s Thunderbolts*; Millie Bobby Brown has the Russo Brothers’ Electric State subsequent on her ever-growing Netflix docket. However from what we are able to inform, just one Hawkins, Indiana hero co-directed, co-written, and co-starred in a film throughout the hiatus: Finn Wolfhard, whose slasher comedy dropped a trailer as we speak.

Hell of a Summer season truly had its premiere on the 2023 Toronto Movie Competition, which implies between Stranger Issues season 4’s 2022 arrival, Wolfhard has additionally been busy with even extra initiatives (together with starring in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire). However we’re nonetheless impressed by the extent of overachievement right here. Try the red-band trailer for his journey into the wacky terrors of summer season camp.

The official synopsis reads: “Hell of a Summer season follows 24-year-old camp counselor Jason Hochberg (Fred Hechinger), who arrives at Camp Pineway pondering his greatest downside is that he feels out of contact along with his teenage co-workers. What he doesn’t know is {that a} masked killer is lurking on the campgrounds, brutally selecting counselors off one after the other.”

That’s no coincident that the principle character’s identify is Jason, after all. The film clearly rips a number of tongue-and-cheek pages from Friday the thirteenth—and Friday the thirteenth Half 2, each movies about counselors being picked off earlier than the camp truly opens for enterprise—however has enjoyable with different style tropes too. Ouija, anybody?

Wolfhard (who co-wrote and co-directed with Billy Bryk) co-stars in a solid that additionally consists of Bryk, Abby Quinn, D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Pardis Saremi, Rosebud Bakeri, and Adam Pally. Hell of a Summer season arrives in theaters April 18, simply in time so that you can begin re-thinking all of your tenting plans.

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