This month, Verve’s star teen movie reviewer, Lucy Kennedy gets stuck into American horror film series, Fear Street.
The Fear Street Trilogy
Rated R
The Fear Street Trilogy (based on the books by RL Stine) is a series of films cleverly set at the same location but spanning hundreds of years. The cursed town of Shadyside is a centre for mass murder, each time the killer a seemingly normal citizen who appears to lose their mind.
Fear Street Part One: 1994 is a horror/mystery revolving around a group of teens. A series of murders begin to stir up old secrets, leading them to uncover their town’s dark past. Deena, a high schooler going through a difficult breakup, finds out that a hoard of merciless zombies is after her ex, and when efforts to involve the Shadyside police prove useless, she summons her friends to help fight back against the undead.
Next in the trilogy is the slasher film Fear Street Part Two: 1978. The mall where the majority of the first film takes place has not been built yet, and at the site lies Camp Nightwing. Ziggy and Cindy Berman are polar-opposite sisters sent to the camp. Ziggy hates it. She doesn’t get on with the other campers and doesn’t want to participate in camp activities. Her sister, Cindy, on the other hand, is having a ball. She’s a popular camp counsellor who gets to spend time with her boyfriend. However, the Shadyside curse won’t allow such happiness to last long as a possessed Shadysider’s murder spree turns a night of summer celebration into a nightmarish struggle for survival.
Fear Street Part Three: 1666 triumphs as the trilogy’s scariest supernatural movie: a chilling witch hunt horror, featuring a fast-paced plot and captivating cinematography. Viewers finally learn the story of Sarah Fier, the witch behind the cursed site. Though, of course there is no mall or summer camp, but a tight-knit community of witch-fearing and superstitious citizens. It’s told from the perspective of Sarah who must survive the deadly hunt and avoid damnation from the crazed townspeople, an event that causes deadly consequences for centuries to come. 4/5 stars
Available now on Netflix.
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