HELL OF A SUMMER

Name: HELL OF A SUMMER
Item: HELL OF A SUMMER
Author: Review

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Family Content: -3 Excessive sex, violence, immorality, and/or worldview problems. (Sometimes excessive content such as violence is in otherwise redemptive movies.)

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What You Need To Know:

HE** OF A SUMMER is a campy horror comedy about a stereotypical summer camp where a serial killer lurks. After the two owners are killed by a masked serial killer, 11 young adult counselors arrive. However, they’re unaware of any danger. With the owners missing, Jason steps up as the camp leader. He’s unaware of the murders, until he finds a girl murdered in her cabin. The others blame him, mainly because they dislike him. As the gruesome murders continue, the counselors try to figure out the killer’s identity and survive.

HE** OF A SUMMER combines absurd horror stereotypes and shallow comic relief for a younger generation. There are isolated teens, a happy summer camp setting, a masked psychopath killer, and typical youthful stereotypes. HE** OF A SUMMER has a light moral worldview where two people try to keep people safe or risk their lives to rescue them. However, the movie has excessive violence with graphic blood and gore, lots of strong foul language, drug use, drinking, and a scene where a character claiming to be clairvoyant pulls out a Ouija Board.

Content:

(B, Pa, O, H, LLL, VVV, S, AA, DD, MM):

Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

Relatively light moral worldview mixed with and mitigated by pagan, occult and humanist in a story about a psychopathic killer at a summer camp where the murders are still depicted as wrong and horrific and the oldest camp counselor chooses over and over to defend and keep the other, younger counselors safe and taken care of even when they don’t deserve it, and a girl sees the good in him and turns back to save him when she has an opportunity to leave, but most of the other characters are shallow and conceited, but a girl claims to be clairvoyant and pulls out a Ouija board in one scene though she’s always wrong and her character and occult interests are mainly treated as an absurd joke, and, though the movie is more of a horror comedy, the ending seems to gloss over the realities of so much death, destruction and violence that’s unrealistic and over-simplified;

Foul Language:

72 obscenities (including 55 “f” words) and three OMG profanities;

Violence:

Multiple scenes of bloody and cruel murder with blood and gore;

Sex:

Strong sexual content or sexual immorality overall includes several sexual references such as discussion of oral sex, a mention of male arousal, dialogue saying killing makes for better sex, couples seen kissing, and there’s a homosexual character, but no details are discussed about his activity or lifestyle;

Nudity:

No nudity ;

Alcohol Use:

Young adults shown drinking and partying on the lake, adults drink beer at a campfire, and a person is shown drunk;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

No tobacco use but young adults smoke marijuana on the lake; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:

Strong miscellaneous immorality such as people falsely accuses one 24-year-old man at the camp of being the killer, and they tie him to a bunk, the real killer kidnaps the accused, the accused young man is desperate to be liked, one character only does good or heroic things for selfish and often vain reasons but is morally empty in any real sense, psychopathic killers display no remorse and only glorification and a desire to become famous for murder, and young adults don’t respect the 24-year-old man for being their elder despite him looking after them.

More Detail:

HELL OF A SUMMER is a campy horror comedy about a stereotypical summer camp where a serial killer lurks as young adult teenage counselors get ready for the start of a new summer. After the owners, John and Kathy, are killed suddenly by a masked serial killer, the eleven counselors arrive unaware of the danger waiting for them.

HELL OF A SUMMER begins with the owners of Camp Pineway, Kathy and John, enjoying an evening by the campfire. As John plays his guitar, Kathy goes to get beer from the fridge. When she returns, she finds John murdered gruesomely with his own guitar. When she gets into her car to escape, the killer is in the backseat. Her body falls, revealing the knife through the headrest.

The next morning, Jason’s mother is driving him to camp. She berates him going to summer camp again because he’s 24 and gave up a law internship. He insists he has plenty of time to be a lawyer and is clearly enamored with Camp Pineway. Rolling her eyes, she drives off wishing he would grow up and think about his future.

Best friends Chris and Bobby drive to camp in Chris’s red sportscar. They talk about being camp counselors this year, which will allow them to hook up with a lot of girls.

Demi, a pretty young woman girl, arrives in a white dress and excessive luggage. Jason offers to carry it in for her. She returns to her livestream as he struggles with the suitcases.

Jason finds Ezra, an eccentric homosexual young man working on his strange acting moves at the camp theater stage. Jason tells Ezra that John and Kathy specifically asked him to come back this year and help him.

Shannon sits at a picnic table, reading Ari’s film script as he describes its broody and overly artistic sentiments. Shannon doesn’t seem amused. When Chris and Bobby arrive, she’s excited to see Chris.

A young woman named Claire struggles to get into Cabin 9, and Jason offers to help her. She mentions how she recently went through a breakup as they walk. Jason goes to the office and finds a note from John and Kathy saying there was a “minor emergency,” but everything’s fine, and they’ll be back tomorrow.

The counselors are in the meal hall as Jason bursts in trying to scare everyone for laughs, but everyone perceives him as lame. Jason, as “camp leader” (a term he’s made up), collects their phones in a basket, as they all leave to party at the lake.

At the lake they drink and smoke some marijuana while swimming. Jason asks Noelle, a self-proclaimed clairvoyant, about her book. Claire shoots archery, and Jason gives her pointers. Jason admits he’s suspicious about John and Kathy’s note. Bobby begins feeling left out as couples start forming.

Before the bonfire that night, something lurks in Demi’s cabin and blood splatters her makeup table while Jason chops wood. At the bonfire, Mike talks about an incident where he kicked a cop in the head.

Later, Shannon tells Claire about a sexual encounter she just had with Mike, while Mike is telling Bobby at the same time. Bobby tells Mike he is a “sucker” for doing all that first, indicating that she should have done it first. Jason makes rounds to tell everyone to go to bed because he has activities planned for tomorrow. Chris tells him to cancel as they already made plans.

On his rounds, Jason discovers Demi’s bloodied body in her cabin and screams to warn everyone. They think he’s joking and don’t take him seriously. They play along, and all go to her cabin. The body’s gone, and they question if the blood could be stage blood. Noelle “confirms” it’s Demi’s. They run screaming, finding their tires slashed. Jason offers to go to the payphone in the meal hall, but Claire insists he can’t go alone. They draw cards as Ezra and Ari draw the lowest cards.

The payphone doesn’t work, however, and the power’s cut. In the kitchen, they find a severed head in the fridge. They scatter, as Jason returns and the others don’t. Noelle has them break out a Ouija Board and speak with Ezra’s spirit. Ezra, however, comes through the door, and he’s sprayed with bear spray. Ezra says he’s figured out who the killer, and it must be someone who knows them and the camp, Jason. They kidnap him and tie him up, but the murders continue. . .

HE** OF A SUMMER combines absurd horror stereotypes and shallow comedic relief for a younger generation. It has isolated young people, a happy summer camp setting, a masked psychopath killer, and typical youthful stereotypes. HE** OF A SUMMER has a light moral worldview where two people try to keep people safe or risk their lives to help them. However, most the other characters are shallow and conceited. Also, HE** OF A SUMMER has excessive violence with graphic blood and gore, lots of string foul language, marijuana use, underage drinking, and a scene where a character claiming to be clairvoyant pulls out a Ouija Board.