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Title: Summer of 84 (2018)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Graham Verchere | ... | Davey Armstrong | |
| Judah Lewis | ... | Tommy 'Eats' Eaton | |
| Caleb Emery | ... | Dale 'Woody' Woodworth | |
| Cory Gruter-Andrew | ... | Curtis Farraday (as Cory Grüter-Andrew) | |
| Tiera Skovbye | ... | Nikki Kaszuba | |
| Rich Sommer | ... | Wayne Mackey | |
| Jason Gray-Stanford | ... | Randall Armstrong | |
| Shauna Johannesen | ... | Sheila Armstrong | |
| William MacDonald | ... | Sheriff Caldwell | |
| Harrison Houde | ... | Bobby Coker | |
| Aren Buchholz | ... | Kyle | |
| Susie Castillo | ... | Brenda Woodworth | |
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Reilly Jacob | ... | Dusty Dewitt |
| Jaiven Natt | ... | Young Kid | |
| J. Alex Brinson | ... | Officer Cole | |
After suspecting that their police officer neighbor is a serial killer, a group of teenage friends spend their summer spying on him and gathering evidence, but as they get closer to discovering the truth, things get dangerous.
Yes, it resembles the first season of Stranger Things. Yes, it echoes Disturbia. I suppose it even tangentially recalls the remake of It if you've never watched real 70s/ 80s horror. Still, this film has its own take on the eighties and kid-centered horror. I liked it more than Disturbia (which was too slick) and more than the remake of It (which was too CGI action-oriented to be scary). Even though the story of Summer of 84 is not at all supernatural, the film recalls Phantasm (1979) in the way that its mood blends easy going playfulness with eerie suspense and horror. The cast is good, the writing is strong, the cinematography is spot on, the editing is tight, and the score is lush in its own synthesized way. Summerof 84 may be more creepy than horrific, but in that vein, it succeeds!