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Dead of Summer - Season 1
During the summer of 1989, childhood friends and camp counsellors reach at the camp site 3 days before the camp is to start. The camp's dark, ancient mythology awakens, and what was supposed to be a summer of fun soon turns into one of unforgettable scares and evil at every turn.
31 July 1989, New York City, New York, USA
10 March 1998, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
3 August 1961, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
5 June 1997, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
17 October 1972, Tucson, Arizona, USA
25 March 1992, Williamson County, Texas, USA
16 July 1994, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
9 April 1995, Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada
4 August 1972, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
June 28, 2016
Promise is the name of the game with Dead of Summer, with an opening three hours that are tonally on-point in the sun-drenched, 80's deathbed of Camp Stillwater, but lack any lucid, horrific hook.
June 30, 2016
While it remains to be seen whether the show gets better from here and there's definitely room for improvement- so good, so far.
June 29, 2016
Dead of Summer is just run-of-the-mill unintentionally bad -- a mishmash of genres and structures and stock characters that maybe aspires to something original and falls flat.
June 28, 2016
Cliched characters, moderate violence in slasher series.
June 29, 2016
Dead of Summer makes for a schlocky hour that never quite gets boring. At the very least, while escaping the dog days of summer inside with the air-conditioning, there's plenty of fun to be had in laughing at how bad it is.
June 28, 2016
Maybe Dead of Summer will turn out to be more than the sum of its parts, and triumph over the cliches on which it's constructed. Or maybe the characters will just wind up being picked off, one at a time. That would work, too.
June 29, 2016
While the premise of Dead of Summer sounds familiar to any horror movie fan, the show benefits from not being directly tied to an existing horror franchise since it won't suffer for being compared to movies beloved by generations.
June 28, 2016
Its story is so clunky, and characters so wafer-thin, it all but evaporates into a haze of trite jump-scare beats and hoary teen tropes.
June 28, 2016
It apparently wants to evoke memories of everything from the '80s slasher film Sleepaway Camp to 2001's Wet Hot American Summer, but it lacks the energy, sex quotient, and scares-per-hour to achieve anything except a certain awkward creepiness.
June 29, 2016
If you're looking for your summer's new guilty pleasure, Dead of Summer is the one. It's bound to keep you guessing what exactly is going on at the camp during its present day and what happened in the 1800s
