FINN WOLFHARD’S CHILDHOOD was largely spent around monsters and ghouls. Demogorgons, Pennywise, ghosts — he’s busted the lot. So, no surprise that his feature directorial debut, Hell Of A Summer, which he’s co-directed, co-written and stars in alongside Ghostbusters: Afterlife actor Billy Bryk, is a bloody affair — asummer-camp slasher with tongue poking firmly in cheek.
“The energy was crazy,” Wolfhard beams of the film’s Midnight Madness debut at the Toronto International Film Festival. With axes swinging, knives slathered in deadly peanut butter (it’s an allergy thing), and guitars used for more than just campfire singalongs, the body-count is high. “We had a lot of fun,” says Wolfhard of devising fresh kills. “It was years of going over what should be the ones to go in the film.”
Shining a new light on the summer-camp slasher genre: