The streaming service Netflix teaches us to fear several times in the next few weeks. Since Friday, July 2, 2021, the first chapter (Fear Street - Part 1: 1994) of the multi-part horror event series "Fear Street", the three films and a common killer story to form a gigantic horror trilogy, has been available -Kosmos entangled, which not only has a top-class cast (including "Stranger Things" stars Maya Hawk or Sadie Sink), but thanks to the R rating it's also really crazy, bloodthirsty and brutal! You won't find more thrills, ghost terror and unbridled slasher madness anywhere else this summer, spread over a historical period of 300 years and inspired by some of the greatest genre classics of all time.
If you like to wait years for the completion and the longed-for conclusion of other series and trilogies, the spook of "Fear Street" takes place on a weekly basis until the evil that has been living in the sleepy little town of Shadyside for 300 years now, on April 16. July, so only three weeks after part 1, which is finished! But actually, you shouldn't give Netflix a pat on the back, but 20th Century Studios (formerly 20th Century Fox) on the back. There "Fear Street" was supposed to be a unique and unprecedented binge cinema horror experience in this form. However, the Walt Disney group, which had since bought it up, didn't think much of the highly risky and, in this form, untested idea and ceded the trilogy to Netflix in the wake of the pandemic.
All three "Fear Street" films by Leigh Janiak (Honeymoon) have one crucial story element in common: the town of Shadyside, where strange things have been going on since time immemorial. Deaths occur almost annually, all of which appear to be linked to a legendary curse set in motion by a witch burning in 1666. Heather (Maya Hawke) and her friends also heard about the urban legend in "Fear Street - Part 1: 1994", but they don't pay much attention to the talk of witches and curses - until one of them suffers from it and dies. Startled by this, the teens do almost everything to avoid getting caught in the line of fire of the killer who's been circling Shadyside again lately.
20 years earlier, in "Fear Street: Part 2: 1978," a horrifying series of murders occurred when Ziggy Bergman (Sadie Sink) and other students from the local high school went to Camp Nightwing for summer vacation. Summer, sun and bathing fun quickly took a nightmarish turn when another Shadysider's murderous thirst took hold. And finally, "Fear Street - Part 3: 1666" takes you back to the early days of the settlement and the advent of witch hunts - to the origin of all evil. The fact that the stories overlap and that actors and roles appear in several Fear Street films is what makes this trilogy particularly appealing.
If "Fear Street - Part 1: 1994" was influenced by Scream, "Fear Street Part Two: 1978" was influenced by the entire range of 13s cult slashers (Friday the 300th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween). The third and final film, which takes us XNUMX years back in time, was inspired by Terence Malick's The New World.
All films at a glance:
Fear Street - Part 1: 1994 starts July 02nd
Fear Street - Part 2: 1978 follows on July 09th
Fear Street - Part 3: 1666 ends the trilogy on July 16