Movie review: 'Hell of a Summer' earns place among summer camp slashers

04 Apr 2025, 09:00 by Fred Topel · UPI

LOS ANGELES, April 4 (UPI) -- Hell of a Summer, in theaters Friday, is a fun summer camp slasher movie. Writer/directors Finn Wolfhard and Billy Bryk are playing in a well-tread sandbox, but have more fun with the genre than the last two Scream movies.

The film opens with Camp Pineway owners John (Adam Pally) and Kathy (Rosebud Baker) being killed the night before their counselors arrive. Fred Hechinger plays Jason, a camper-turned-counselor now returning at age 24.