Co-director Billy Bryk and stars Abby Quinn and Fred Hechinger join to talk about balancing horror with humor and their favorite scenes to film.
The Big Picture Taking the Toronto International Film Festival back to the heyday of horror in the ‘80s with Hell of a Summer, directing duo Finn Wolfhard and Billy Bryk stopped by Collider’s studio at the Cinema Center by MARBL to talk with Editor-in-chief Steve Weintraub about their directorial debut. Joined by stars Fred Hechinger and Abby Quinn , the quartet discusses the behind-the-scenes of their genre mash-up from influences to favorite scenes.
BRYK: I did a good one last time, but I don't know if I can. Hell of a Summer, it's a summer camp comedy-slasher. It's an ensemble coming-of-age movie about a counselor who's a little bit older than everybody else named Jason, and he's back, and he kind of can't let his camp glory days go.
FRED HECHINGER: That five dollars is very enticing. I mean, the simplest, first thing is it’s just one of the best scripts I've read, and so you read something like that has genre, but in service of characters where it's like the people are what's creating and pushing the genre. That's very exciting.
BRYK: Because the film kind of, as Abby was saying, is like a young rom-com at its core, we never wanted to go too far…BRYK: …that you couldn't come back to see the light in it. We had an incredible team of people, and we have some incredibly awesome practical gore, but also, we always wanted to keep it fun for everyone.WOLFHARD: There’s that part where [someone] gets torn in half, and we don't go that far, but there's some gnarly blood tubes and stuff like that in the film.
QUINN: I watched Freaks and Geeks. [To Wolfhard] You sent me a picture of Linda Cardellini because of her jacket, but then I thought, “This would be a good thing to rewatch.” And the movie with Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg.HECHINGER: Finn just kept sending me Charlie Bit My Finger over and over again, so I watched that a lot of times.
HECHINGER: And they were like, “Why?” Every time they're trying to go home, everyone’s just sitting around running lines, playing music. We watched Windy City Heat together, but I think more just for the joys of watching it.I want to actually ask you guys a little bit about the filmmaking. I like talking about the editing room because you really don't know what you have until you step in there, and that's where it all comes together.
WOLFHARD: Well, I feel like a lot of it is just like doing it. You learn it on the go. You're learning it as you're making it. For me, I just learned a lot about how to talk to crew and making cast feel comfortable, or stuff like that. Obviously, I was still really learning when we did it. Truly, we were learning as we went.
Did you find that one of you is more interested in where the camera is and one is more interested in crafting performance, or was it one of these things where you're a two-headed beast doing the same thing?
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