Movie Review: Slasher homage “HELL OF A SUMMER” falls short of being a camp classic
After more than four decades of seminal works and variations on the theme, there needed to be more invention applied to the material.
After more than four decades of seminal works and variations on the theme, there needed to be more invention applied to the material.
It aptly interrogates and occasionally skewers (pun maybe intended) the current moment while delivering some very inventive kills and setpieces.
The pace goes slack as the story spends way too much time with its generic characters going through generic paces.
Needlessly cruel and lacking the charm of the era it sets out to emulate, this slasher fails to evoke nostalgia.
Funny and gratifying, with a career-making lead performance and a good measure of the monstrous