‘Hell of a Summer’ Retro Style Poster Pays Tribute to ’80s Slasher ‘Happy Birthday to Me’

NEON pays tribute to the summer camp slashers of the 1980s with their upcoming film Hell of a Summer, and a new poster this week fittingly gives homage to a slasher from the era.

Slasher comedy Hell of a Summer will release in theaters on April 4, 2025. “Stranger Things” star Finn Wolfhard is the co-writer, co-director and star of the upcoming movie.

Exclusively check out the new poster below, inspired by the iconic original poster artwork for the 1981 slasher film Happy Birthday to Me from director J. Lee Thompson!

You’ll also find the film’s previously released Red Band trailer below.

Want to see Hell of a Summer over a week before its official release? Bloody Disgusting is presenting two sneak peek screenings in Chicago and Dallas. Secure your tickets right now!

Hell of a Summer follows 24-year-old camp counselor Jason Hochberg (Fred Hechinger), who arrives at Camp Pineway thinking his biggest problem is that he feels out of touch with his teenage co-workers. What he doesn’t know is that a masked killer is lurking on the campgrounds, brutally picking counselors off one by one.

Finn Wolfhard wrote and directed the upcoming movie alongside Billy Bryk (Ghostbusters: Afterlife), with both actors also starring in the film. The cast also includes Fred Hechinger (Fear Street 1994), as well as D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai (“Reservation Dogs”), Abby Quinn (“Mad About You”), and Pardis Saremi (“Career Opportunities in Murder and Mayhem”).

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