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Every serial killer lives next door to someone

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Summer of '84 (2018)

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Summer of ‘84 (2018)

Eats: If I find a used condom in there, I’m gonna be so jealous.

Okay. Before I go ahead and give it the 120/100 I think it deserves, I’m going to let everyone know... I almost deducted all 100 points. I liked the movie. I liked the 80s summer adventure with friends, the nostalgia. I liked the actors. I thought it was fun and interesting. For about half the movie. Then I became bored. I got annoyed that this horror movie didn’t have anything horrifying going on. I was annoyed that it appeared to set itself up as “kid and his whacky friends save the day”. 

But then he left the station, and I saw how much movie was still left... so I knew something interesting had to happen at the end.

They, of course, end up killing my favorite character, which I’m upset about, but I can forgive because of what killing this character ended up doing for the ending.

The unexpected ending and what I think will be under a spoiler, in case you’re looking at this and haven’t seen it, along with my ESE score. 

Woody being murdered is the most genius thing this film did. Having Mackey kidnap Woody and Davey is just such a strong move. He makes them play a real-life game of Manhunt, their favorite neighborhood game, where he gives them a minor head-start and then chases them around this island that has only one bridge that leads to the mainland, though they have no clue what side they’re on or where they’re at on the island, and they have to get past him.

Davey tries to draw attention away so Woody can get away, but Mackey takes off after Woody and ultimately kills him. He slices Davey’s achilles tendon and Davey finds his best friend’s body. When Mackey catches up to him, he lets him know that he WANTS to kill him. But he’s not going to. He says that Davey spent that whole summer thinking about Mackey, and he’s not going to let him stop thinking about him. He tells him that he’s going to get him. That he’ll never be able to stop wondering when or how. If it’ll be in months, if it’ll be in years.

Now, a lesser movie would’ve had him found before the movie ended. Escaping in some asinine way that leaves it up to imagination. 

This movie? Gave us the best ending. Mackey disappears into the night, leaving Davey to hobble back toward civilization, losing blood and emotionally distraught all the way.

When he leaves the hospital and gets back to his normal paper route, he has a voiceover that is cool and all, but ultimately has no bearing on how I feel about what happens in the end. On his paper route, he sees his other two friends, Eats and Faraday. Eats and Faraday give him a death glare... a sign that the friendship has ended and that they blame him for Woody’s death and the escape of the murderer.

So, he leave this kid with the everlasting fear that he’s out there and he is going to wait until Davey feels safe, and that’s when he’ll get him. And added to that, is the death glares from his former friends, the girl he likes leaving town, his best friend is dead... All of this? Leads him isolated on top of the constant terror that this dude could be lurking around any corner.

The layers of the psychological horror ending make up for any annoyance that it took so long for me to see anything “horror” about this horror movie. It makes up for killing my favorite character. I loved this ending. BRILLIANT ending.

ESE: 120/100

50 +5 for alien sticker +5 for alien shirt +10 for manhunt making me nostalgic +10 for Judah Lewis +5 for Cory Gruter-Andrew +5 for “peek-a-boobs” -10 for R-slur +5 for Nikki in his bedroom +10 for 80s pop culture references +5 for Nikki talking Davey up to make him look cooler amongst his friends -10 for getting caught +10 for finding the body and saving another kid +20 for such a genius ending

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Summer of 84 (François Simard, Anouk Whissell & Yoann-Karl Whissell, 2018).

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Today in horror / mystery film history: on August 10, 2018 Summer of '84 debuted in the United States.

Here's some art to mark the occasion!

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Turbo Kid (2015)

by RKSS

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Summer of 84

Horror Movie Mini-Reviews: Movie 28 of ??

IMDB Summary:

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.

Nonsensical Thoughts:

Summer of 84 (2018) is essentially what would happen if Stephen King had written Disturbia. When will the 80’s nostalgia go off to war? Or at least the kid side of it. I want to see what the college kids were doing. My parents were in college in the 80’s, I’d like more films that show that experience through the lens of nostalgia. Will I have to make that film? But, I digress.

This was an entertaining watch. The kids were great and the script was solid. If you are looking for a slasher film, this is not it, but it is a good mystery horror.