Taken on their own, the last 15-20 minutes of
Summer of 84—the latest from RKSS, the Canadian filmmaking
collective behind Turbo Kid—work reasonably well. They would
have worked even better if the film had done a single thing in the previous 80
minutes to earn the climax. It feels like they started with the end, but had no
idea how to get there.
“The suburbs are where the craziest shit happens.” True,
little dude, true. Between It and Stranger Things,
we’re in the midst of an 1980s suburban horror nostalgia tsunami. The latest
entry into this cannon looks to be Summer of 84, and as it’s
the brainchild of the folks behind Turbo Kid, this new
trailer has my full attention.
A few years ago, a bunch of insane Canadians got together
for Turbo Kid, a loving and totally rad send up cheap,
schlocky post-apocalyptic movies like The New Barbarians,
1990: The Bronx Warriors, and the slew of similar
Mad Max knock-offs that permeated the 1980s. Now that same
team is back and working on a horror slasher called Summer of ‘84,
and I’m pretty damn psyched.
