Finn Wolfhard takes on a masked killer in trailer for his ‘Hell Of A Summer’ slasher

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Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard is making his debut behind the camera for horror/comedy Hell Of A Summer, which has just released its first Redband trailer.Wolfhard, best known for the role of Mike Wheeler in the Netflix show, has written and co-directed the film alongside actor Billy Bryk.

Both film-makers also have acting roles in the movie, which stars Fred Hechinger (Gladiator II) as a man in his twenties who can’t seem to let go of the summer camp experience.The official synopsis for the film reads: “Hell of a Summer follows 24-year-old camp counsellor 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 counsellors off one by one”.The trailer embraces the cliches of slasher movies, being set in a summer camp, having gory kills, and having characters reference certain horror tropes like ominously saying the phone lines have been cut.

The film had its international premiere back in 2023’s Toronto Film Festival, and is slated to be released in the US on April 18.