Stranger Issues star Finn Wolfhard is making his debut behind the digital camera for horror/comedy Hell Of A Summer time, which has simply launched its first Redband trailer.
Wolfhard, greatest identified for the function of Mike Wheeler within the Netflix present, has written and co-directed the movie alongside actor Billy Bryk. Each film-makers even have appearing roles within the film, which stars Fred Hechinger (Gladiator II) as a person in his twenties who can’t appear to let go of the summer time camp expertise.
The official synopsis for the movie reads: “Hell of a Summer time follows 24-year-old camp counsellor Jason Hochberg (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 choosing counsellors off one after the other”.
The trailer embraces the cliches of slasher films, being set in a summer time camp, having gory kills, and having characters reference sure horror tropes like ominously saying the cellphone traces have been reduce. The movie had its worldwide premiere again in 2023’s Toronto Movie Competition, and is slated to be launched within the US on April 18. A UK launch date has but to be introduced.
It’s a part of an enormous yr for Wolfhard, who will star within the closing season of Stranger Issues, set for launch sooner or later this yr. He not too long ago commented on the present wrapping the season 5 filming, saying: “I’ll miss all of my mates and our characters terribly”.
Whereas little is understood in regards to the content material of the season, the titles for every episode have been launched final November, with the makers confirming it will likely be set in “the autumn of 1978”. Wolfhard’s co-star, Millie Bobby Brown, shared a video of her tearfully saying goodbye to the present’s solid and crew.
