Billy Bryk on ‘Hell of a Summer,’ Making Movies in His Early 20s and Proving Himself as a Filmmaker

Billy Bryk on ‘Hell of a Summer,’ Making Movies in His Early 20s and Proving Himself as a Filmmaker

“It’s hard for me to believe that the film is coming out, really,” says Billy Bryk. The 25-year-old started writing “Hell of a Summer” roughly six years ago with Finn Wolfhard, and premiered the film at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2023. At long last, it arrived in theaters over the weekend.  “I think anybody would be going nuts during the wait just because you put so much into it and you’re not sure when the film’s goin…

‘Hell of a Summer’ is a hell of a ride

After five years stuck in film purgatory, Finn Wolfhard and Billy Bryk’s directorial debut “Hell of a Summer” was released in theaters on Friday, drawing on the classic summer camp horror genre of the 1980s.  Originally written in 2019 by Wolfhard and Bryk after meeting on the set of “Ghostbusters: Afterlife,” their slasher-horror movie is at home in genre with the likes of 1983’s “Sleepaway Camp” and 1980’s “Friday the 13th.”  While the aforeme…

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Finn Wolfhard is being upfront about the importance of mental health care as a child actor. The now 22-year-old actor reflected on how launching into stardom at the age of 13 affected him when Netflix‘s Stranger Things became a hit show in 2016. “I don’t think I’d ever go back and do something over, but maybe I would go back to when the show first came out and blew up, and I would directly put myself into therapy,” he revealed to People in a rec…

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Finn Wolfhard and Billy Bryk on 'Hell of a Summer,' their new summer camp slasher

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Finn Wolfhard and Billy Bryk. The duo wrote and directed the new summer camp slasher, 'Hell of a Summer.'

Finn Wolfhard Thanks Mentor Jesse Eisenberg For Being “So Supportive” Of ‘Hell of A Summer’

For Finn Wolfhard, making the leap from child actor to writer/director was much easier with a mentor like Jesse Eisenberg. After he and Hell of a Summer co-writer/co-director/co-star Billy Bryk worked with Eisenberg on his 2022 directorial debut When You Finish Saving the World, Wolfhard noted the experience “really stuck with me” as he got “tons” of advice from Eisenberg on their parallel trajectories. “It was so fascinating to watch him wo…