Scolger on the fire that is light on scare but big on the charm

Nostalgia for summer camps is a strange thing. Regardless of what you were in a childhood camp, a teenager and/or adult advisor, it is likely that most of your experiences have participated in some difficulties, if not anxiety and humiliation. Yes, it is essentially the same as going to school, but intensifies; Instead of returning home every night, you are forced to spend 24/7 deeply in isolated rural areas with the people you visit the camp. There is no significant way of escape in each significant way.

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Perhaps then this nostalgic pulling of this summer camp can be attracted to a good connection with injuries. In other words, it is not about the experience as long as it happens, but about the sense of intimacy and achievement, which feels that just go through it. This would explain why so many nostalgic films about summer camps are usually in the horror category, comedy, or horror comedy. Will it laugh through the pain with “Meatballs”, “ “Wet Hot American Summer”, and “Theater Camp”, either with a knife through the pain “Friday 13”, “” “Sleep Camp”, or “Fear of the street part two: 1978,” “ These films have a warm glow of recognition from our collective communication with such places.

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“Damn Summer”, The debut function of actors and co-authors/directors beat Braik and Finno Wolfhard is a comedy-lingual auditory comedy containing a more first rather than the last. This does not mean that the film tries to san your topic or seek to become a blunt but strengths of the fraweb and Wolfhard lie more in writing and reflecting cute characters than to come up with scary images and netta. While the film is likely to make no one -free and jump out of its place, its many charm are composed. With the nostalgia, which was found, nowadays, the “hell of summer” becomes less lazy return and a more rare beast, a cozy horror movie.

Let’s get out of this top: “Damn Summer” is one of the most common movies that, if, at least when it comes to Slasher Subsonre. On the one hand, this is nominally for the course when it comes to cutting, and as a huge fan of the swing, I often claim that the formula aspects of the slair is a feature rather than a mistake. Using the paths and elements that make up sharp, and especially the scaller slash, it does not mean that the film is devoid of originality. Take last year’s “In the cruel nature”, for example,. This movie drips into the Slasher Tropes fire, but thanks to the very unique way it was shot, all these old cute cliché acted as GuidePosts to help the film style audience, and, in expanding, they felt fresh again.

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Unfortunately, the “hell of summer” never exceeds its slash -trap parade. The plot is the usual installation of Threadbare: 24-year-old Jason (Fred Hedger) goes to the Pinews camp to spend another summer as an advisor, despite the fact that everyone insists that he continues his life. When he struggles to turn to his impoverished teenage colleagues during the preparatory weekend advisers, trying to prove that he can drive the camp himself, the disguised killer begins to choose advisers one by one. Even worse, when everything becomes tense, the surviving advisers believe that Jason himself is a killer.

With this old Slasher school structure, there is no doubt that Braik and Wolfhard are fans of the genre. Filmmakers are also smart not to attract too much attention to the tropes; This is not something like “Last Girls”, Which is constantly trying to ask a “cry”. And that’s wrong “Creek” Either its many imitators; Braik and Wolfhard are not trying to make a statement about the state of sharp or horror in society. In fact, their movie is a bit too superficial level as the opening Whodunit feels too weightless (and the final motivation of the killer feels too derivative, guess that, the continuation is “shouting”). This is not a problem that is characteristic just for “hell summer” “Eyes’ heart”) They had similar problems that giving them the convincing causes of their blood.

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Of course, the rescue sophistication of many slash lies in its sequences and the network, and the “hell of summer” is not in this department … like. While the film has R-raiding, and thus the harsh language and mountains can be expected that the R-rated ranking is present that it is like one of the most popular cuts in blood and intestines. If you are nuts (and most Slasher fans tend to happen), you can still be disappointed with the “hell of summer”, because not only there are no tones of red things, but some murders even occur – sigh! – Zacris.

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However, if you aren’t going to knock the movie as a whole star for what you are not on one “Strynik” The series, then the “Damn Summer” can tickle your imagination. As I said, Braik and Wolfhard are smart directors, and what they lack in horror is compensating in ingenuity. I will not give anything here, but there are at least two scenes in the film, which I view as a couple of smart murders in any incision, if -something made. One of them is a big payment for running, and the other feels that the type of bait and switch kills, that classic Italian horror, or continued “shouting”, can do in its prime. Although none of the killings in the movie will most likely be shocking, I believe you can chat about a few in a few days.

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Where Braik and Wolfhard are indeed Excel are in their dialogue and characteristics. This is not a big surprise given the training of the duo and the story of the actors. Nor is it surprising that they have an eye for talent, as the ensemble cast here is filled with highlights, especially abby quinn as jason’s confidant and love interest, claire, d’prao Is Making A Helluva Post- “Reservation Dogs” Debut Between This And “War”), and Crystat Nazar, which makes a winning pair with a popular guy Wolfhard’s Woke, Chris. Braik gives his own character to Bobby, a fun person, which needs to work with the by -handed Chris, which desperately wants to become an alpha group, but too dangerous and too honest to happen, for example, when he unsuccessfully pretended to be a vegan to impress the girl.

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It is these characteristics and performances that really set the “Hell Summer” except the Slasher package. Just as honestly refreshing to see a movie horror that trades on the nostalgia genre without trying to prove Fundo-Bonophids, or outdoors past triumphs, it is also refreshing to see today’s horror movie and in the main roles that absolutely do not try to go, “From the main role,”), which can be absolutely for their generation, until they try to thrown to and/to miss this generation and “not in the role”. Again, Braik and Wolfhard do not try to make “X” or “they/them”, no high-conceptual postmodern sliding a la “Happy Death Day” or “This is a wonderful knife”. Instead, the “damn summer” is an honest horror comedy that is guided by the character, and Gekinger plays a young man who gets a strongly violent but effective age that you wake up. The performance of Hedgera rises, and if you are on board with an individual actor style, you can also win it. Hey, it may be a joke on the nose for the final boy named Jason, who is suspected of murder in the summer camp, but I think it’s nice!

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Despite the existence of so-called “comfortable movies” and those for which horror movies are more comforting than stressful and disturbing, horror movies are usually trying to scare or at least break the majority of the audience. Although there may be several people for whom the “hell of summer” gives them a chill, most horror fans will probably not be too scary. The fact that Braik and Wolfhard is one of the most cozy horror films in a recent memory that instantly feels magical from the beginning. Maybe thinking about the “hell of summer” as a warm hug of the movie tells me more about me, a drug addict than the movie itself, but the fact remains the fact that the film has a reasonable and euphoric quality. Or maybe, given these and other similar recent films such as “Heart Eyes”, the cut begins to move away from extraordinary mountains and nakedness in a more ushforier, warm space.

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For a few years, I have visited the summer camp, I overhearted the stories of colleagues-recruits in other cabins who created their own horror films/slash-noice while in the camp. These were not the efforts of the career, set or the social media (since it was not a thing when I was young) children who tried to become famous, but just friends who sought to have fun during the downtime from training crafts, boats, archery and other activities. “Summer Hell” acts as such a type of horror movie when it was actually made professionally, and by the end you can feel as if you also spent summer in camp with new friends. If all the horror is an injury at the end of the day, then the pain from the growing up are the same as stab wounds and cutting off.

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/Rating of the movie: 7 out of 10

On April 4, 2025, the “Hell Summer” enters the theater.