Summer of 84
The first trailer for the upcomingSummer of ’ 84is another exemplar of how the on-going undulation of ‘ 80s nostalgia is n’t anywhere close to being over . In what look to be a mashup of late ‘ LXXX - exercise set hits likeStranger ThingsandIT , the new film eschews the supernatural expression for something a little more grounded — serial killers . And while bike - cod kids in a small township on the hunt for a local killer is a great hook for any flick , the trailer forSummer of ’ 84is all about recreating a foregone geological era on the big screen .
write by Matt Leslie and Stephen J. Smith , and directed by François Simard , Anouk Whissell , and Yoann - Karl Whissell , who collectively go by the name RKSS and antecedently directedTurbo tyke . The cinema heads down a intimate path , as a group of young friends , played by Graham Verchere , Judah Lewis , Caleb Emery , and Cory Gruter - Andrew pass their foresighted , carefree days aways from school and the headache of adulthood by hunting a local sequential grampus , dubbed “ The Cape May Slayer . ”
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As you could see from the house trailer and the paranoia - inducing tones of its eery synth - pappa score , Summer of ’ 84goes all - in on familiar character archetypes , starting with Verchere ’s Davey Armstrong , the resident confederacy theoretician of the radical and the one who is convinced local policeman Wayne Mackey ( Mad MenandGLOW ’s Rich Sommer ) is the killer in query . The relief of the group is interchangeable in that regard as the other teens , along with Nikki Kaszuba ( Tiera Skovbye)“scientifically the perfect woman,”are all fitted easily into archetypal slot .
It will be interesting to see how audience respond to the lagger — let alone the movie — in a post - strange Thingsworld . ThatSummer of ’ 84will rack up dramatic art later this summer may have been a factor in its street corner hadITnot made waves in theaters just about a twelvemonth ago , utilizing many of the same tropes this film is so keen to make function of .
So far , though , it does n’t seem as if hearing are weary of ‘ 80s nostalgia , as anticipation for season 3 ofStranger Thingscontinues to be high , whileITwas a bankrupt achiever in 2017 . Whether such partiality for a 10 will understand intoSummer of ’ 84becoming a hit or not remain to be seen , but with the film premiering this August , it wo n’t be farseeing until the answer is known .
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Summer of ’ 84hits select theaters on August 10 , 2018 .
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