Things are about to get very busy for Finn Wolfhard. Sure, he’s stayed active starring in a pair of Ghostbusters movies and a small role in Saturday Night. But this year he’s got the long-awaited final season of Stranger Things, and perhaps more importantly for him, his directorial debut, the horror film Hell of a Summer.
Co-directed by Wolfhard and Wynonna Earp actor Billy Bryk, Hell of a Summer is a horror-comedy clearly influenced by Friday the 13th. It follows a group of counselors at a sleepaway camp who become the target of a masked killer.
The film stars Fred Hechinger, Abby Quinn, D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Pardis Saremi, Rosebud Baker, and Adam Pally. Wolfhard and Bryk co-wrote and co-directed the film and also have roles.
Hell of a Summer had its world premiere at Toronto in 2023 and was acquired by NEON, who will release it into theaters on April 18th.
SYNOPSIS: Hell of a Summer follows 24-year-old camp counselor Jason Hochberg (Hechinger), who arrives at Camp Pineway thinking his biggest problem is that he feels out of touch with his teenage co-workers. What he doesn’t know is that a masked killer is lurking on the campgrounds, brutally picking counselors off one by one.
