Director: Leigh Janiak
Cast: Kiana Madeira , Olivia Scott Welch , Benjamin Flores Jr. , Julia Rehwald , Maya Hawke , Charlene Amoia , David Thompson , Darrell Britt-Gibson , Ashley Zukerman , Fred Hechinger...
Plot: A circle of teenage friends accidentally encounter the ancient evil responsible for a series of brutal murders that have plagued their town for over 300 years. The film follows a group of few teenagers in Shadyside who are terrorized the town for centuries.
My Movie Review: The movie is goodie scary with some sauce in the past it's finger licking and easy to digest kind a scare nice start to a trilogy waiting to unfold giving vibes to anticipate! Fear Street Part One: 1994 is so good its praised by the LGBTQ+ community for its accurate representation of a lesbian couple, instead of making the characters' story revolve around sexuality and gaining acceptance: Deena's relationship with Sam its built throughout the story:) Fear Street is slick not unaware of the shoulders of past slasher flicks on which it stands not the best series of all time, but definitely very fun and worth watching!! I really enjoyed it. I loved the aesthetic of the films, and the plot was fun and quite original, with many unexpected twists! There were a few moments when I had to facepalm because the characters were being stupid, but let's be honest if people in horror movies aren't a bit dumb we wouldn't have horror movies! A real Shadyside, Ohio exists, but thankfully the violent history depicted in the films is fictional the movies are based on R.L. Stine's popular Fear Street book series made for teen to scream!
Critics Consensus: Fear Street Part One: 1994 kicks off the trilogy in promising fashion, honoring the source material with plenty of retro slasher appeal. Deena and Sam's romance is a push-pull between two paper-thin characters
whose relationship never gains the contours that make you care about
its survival. 1994 leans very much on recognizable nostalgia to build a sense of place-hell, the movie opens at a mall!-before getting into the bloody business at hand. A nasty, eloquent effective slasher... The film oozes confidence. Plays like "Scream" meets "Stranger Things" built on a supernatural premise sturdy enough to sustain interest and suspense over nearly six hours. Neither the story nor the characters have enough weight to make “1994” feel like anything other than a retro slasher knockoff. Fear Street encapsulates what made 90s thriller movies so popular. If I had adolescent nieces or nephews, I would be plopping them in front of the tv with popcorn so we could talk about it afterward. This easy-to-swallow conceit lets Fear Street gleefully, bloodily romp around the mass market paperbacks it honors. While Fear Street certainly has that cookie-cutter Netflix gloss to it, it still manages to provide enough thrills and unique surprises to make it a worthwhile entry into the horror genre:)
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