Nostalgia for summer camps is a strange thing. Whether you have been camping as a child, a teen camper and/or an adult adviser, the chances are most of your experiences there, involved some difficulties, if not anxiety or humiliation. Yes, it is essentially the same as going to school, but it has stepped up; Instead of going home every night, you are forced to spend 24/7 deep in an isolated rural area with the people you are attending a camp. In every significant way, there is no escape.

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Perhaps, then, this nostalgic traction that the summer camp has can be chalken to a good trauma connection. In other words, it is not about the experience itself as it happens, but about the sense of closeness and achievement that feels just to break. This would explain why so many nostalgic movies for a summer camp tend to fall into the categories of horror, comedy or horror comedy. Whether he laughs through the pain "Meatballs", "Wet warm American summer", "" And "Theater Camp", "" or stabbing through the pain with "Friday the 13th", "Sleep Camp", "" or "Fear of Street Two: 1978", There is a warm glow to recognizing these films because of our collective tackles with such places.

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"Hell of Summer", "" The debut feature of actors and co-writers/directors Billy Brajk and Giant Wolfard is a camp-fired comedy-Horor that contains more than the former, not the second. It is not to say that the film is trying to repair its theme or to seek to be stupid Rome, but that the advantages of Brajk and Wolfard lie more in writing and showing decent characters than appearing with pictures filled with fears and settings. While the film is unlikely to make someone sleepless or jump from its place, many are added very attractive. With its story of nostalgia nowadays, "Hell of the Summer" becomes less than a lazy return and more than that rare Astver, the pleasant horror movie.

Let's get this out of the way to the top: "Hell of Summer" is one of the most ecclesiastical films that have ever been made, at least when it comes to Slasher Subgenre. On the one hand, this is simultaneously for the course when it comes to slashers, and as a huge fan fan, I often claim that SLASHER's formal aspects are characteristic, not a bug. The use of tropicals and elements that make up weaker, and especially the firefighter, does not mean that the film is deprived of originality. Take last year "In a violent nature", for example. That film was bathing in Campfire Slasher Tropes, but thanks to an extremely unique way as it was filmed, all those old cliches acted as guidelines to help detain the film -style audience, and with a sequel again they felt fresh.

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Unfortunately, "hell of summer" never exceeds its parade of weaker tropes. The plot is a common thread: 24-year-old Jason (Fred Heckinger) headed to Camp Pinevey to spend another summer there as an adviser, despite everyone insisting that he continues his life. While he is struggling to appeal to his tight teenage associates during their just weekend preparation, while trying to prove he can lead the camp alone, a masked killer is starting to collect councilors one by one. Worse still, when things got tense, surviving councilors will believe that Jason himself is the killer.

With this old school structure of school, there is no doubt that Brajk and Wolfard are the fans of the genre. Filmmakers are also smart to get too much attention to tropes, nor; This is not something like "Last Girls", that is constantly trying to come out "screaming". Neither is it “Scream” or his many imitators; Brajk and Wolfard are not trying to make capital a statement on the state of Slasers or Horror in society. In fact, their film is a bit too much on the surface of the surface, because the discovery of Whodunit feels too heavy (and the ultimate motivation of the killer feels too derivative, guess what, the sequel "scream"). This is not a problem unique about the "hell of the summer", though, as a few recent slaps (especially this year "Heart Eyes") had similar problems giving them the killers attractive causes of their bloodshed.

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Of course, the savings of the grace of many lies in its murders and sequences, and "hell of summer" is no weakness in this department ... kind. While the film is ranked with R, and thus the cruel tongue and cannot be expected to be seen in pink, this feels like one of the most difficult wavers in relation to blood and intestines. If you are GoreHound (and most fans of fans tend to be), then you may still be disappointed with "hell of summer", because not only there is no tone of red things, but some kills even - gas! - Off -screen.

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However, if you won't break the film a whole starvet because you're not on par with "in violent nature" or "Pergjan" Series, then "Hell of the Summer" can take away the fancy. As I said earlier, Brajk and Wolfard are smart directors, and lacking their origin in the cares that complements it in inventiveness. I won't give anything here, but there are at least two scenes in the movie I consider some of the smartest killings in any weaker. One is a large payment of running, and the other feels like the type of bait and switch kills that classic Italian horror or sequel to "scream" can do in their prime minister. While none of the killings in the movie will probably not shock you, I think you may talk about some of them days later.

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Where they really feature Brayk and Wolfard is in their dialogue and characterization. It is not a huge surprise, given the training and the history of the duo as actors. Nor is it surprising that they have an eye for talent, because the ensemble thrown here is filled with the most important sides, especially Abi Quinn as Asoneyson's confidential and Love-Board, Claire, D'Faraoh Wun-a-Tai as Mike (who makes a "reservation dog" debut for Hel. "War"), and Christa Nazair, who makes a winning couple with Wolfhard, woke up a popular man, Chris. Brayk gives him his own character, Bobby, a funny person to work, making Chris's Seedekic, who desperately wants to be the group's alpha, but is also too unreliable and too honest to happen, such as when unsuccessfully pretending to be vegan to impress a girl.

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These are these features and shows that really distinguish the "hell of summer" except for "Slasher Pack". In the same way that it's a hallestly refreshing to see a horror film that trades on the nostalgia of the genre with slavishly attending to prove fandom bonafides or outdo past triumphs, it's just as refreshing Present-day Horror Movie by and Starring Young Adults that is absolutely for their generation Yet is attempting to pander to and/or sum up that generation (Unlike, Say, "Bodies Bodies Bodies"). Again, Brajk and Wolfard are not trying to make "x" or "they/them", nor a postmodern bed with a high concept and a "happy day of death" or "It's a wonderful knife". Instead, "Hell of the Summer" is an honest, artistic comedy managed by characters, with Heckinger playing a young man who gets definitely forcibly but effectively coming to old age. Heckinger's play is exalted, and if you are on the boat with the actor's idiosyncratic style, he and the film may have won you. Hey, maybe it's a joke about the last boy named Jason to suspect murder in a summer camp, but I think it's like!

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Despite the existence of so -called "comfort movies" and those for which horror films are more than comfortable than stress or anxiety inducer, horror films are generally trying to frighten or at least disturb the majority of audiences. Although there may be a few people out there for whom the "hell of the summer" gives them cold, most of the horror fans are unlikely to find themselves too scary. What they have Brajk and Wolfard here is one of the fiercest horror movies in recent memory, the one that immediately feels charming from the beginning. Maybe thinking about "Hell of the Summer" as a warm embrace of the film tells me more about me, Horror Shanki than it applies to the film itself, but the fact remains that the film has a clever and attractive quality. Or perhaps, given this and other similar recent films like "Heart Eyes", slashers are starting to move away from extreme tire and nakedness in a fierce, warmer space.

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During my several years attending the summer camp, I listened to stories of colleagues campers in other cabins, making their own horror/weaker films, without a budget while they were at the camp. These were not the career efforts of career or social media (since it was not yet something when I was young) children who tried to celebrate, but only friends looking to have fun during crafts, sailing, archery and other activities. "Hell of the Summer" acts like that kind of horror movie, if he really does professionally, and by the end of it, you may feel like you have spent the summer in a camp with some new friends. If the whole horror is for trauma at the end of the day, then growth pain is as valid as the knife wounds and beheading.

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/Movie rating: 7 out of 10

"Hell of the Summer" hits theaters on April 4, 2025.