Summer of 84 - Reviewed

Hello Folks,

Today i bring you my thoughts on the newly released Summer of 84.

"After suspecting that their police officer neighbour 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."

As you probably can tell from the HUGE success of Netflix "Stranger Things" it seems that the 80's are back in style, I was around in the 80's and boy was that a style! 

So what you get with Summer Of 84 is your obligatory 4 boys, Geek, Punk, Fat Kid and kind of normal but believes  in every conspiracy theory going kid as well as the hot blonde next door babysitter, BMX's, Nights creeping around with torches, you get the 80's picture.

So when the conspiracy guy who is also  paperboy delivers his daily paper to his neighbour the local cop he asks him into his house to give him a lift downstairs with something, They end up in his dark room where he tells the young boy of his love for photography, We then get to find out from a local news story that another young boy has gone missing, Immediately geek kid swears to his friends that  he has seen a photo of the missing boy in the cops basement.

So they all assemble in the 80's tree house of course and make a plan to see if it is or isn't the local, Popular and friendly cop.

I must say i had a real good time watching this, It's stacked to the rafters with all things retro, The acting is solid as is the direction and pretty much all the characters, It really does keep you wondering throughout if the killer is the cop or someone else, no spoilers from me but one thing i will say is with all of it's comedic elements throughout the ending really took a dark and sinister twist.

Well worth a look in my opinion, By no means a masterpiece but worth keeping your eye out for, 

7.5/10

Jonny T.