Director: Leigh Janiak
Cast: Sadie Sink , Emily Rudd , Ryan Simpkins , McCabe Slye , Gillian Jacobs , Matthew Zuk , Kiana Madeira ,Olivia Scott Welch ,Ted Sutherland , Brandon Spink , Drew Scheid , Jacqi Vene
Plot: In Shadyside, 1978. School's out for summer and the activities at Camp Nightwing are about to begin. But when another Shadysider is possessed with the urge to kill, the fun in the sun becomes a gruesome fight for survival.
My Movie Review: The movie is solid summer camp slasher they always said its better than the first but for me this have a different charm so I can't compare love this second part cause it gave us a clear picture what's the story of Fear Street's all about both are great each own way! Fear Street Part Two:1978 is impactful because it adds an unexpectedly bleak poignancy to the characters' fight to survive, as if they're also fighting against a bigger more crueler system:) “1978” foregrounds this self-loathing and focuses on characters with even more angst than those we saw in “1994,” as with Ziggy Sadie Sink fight to the nail to survive with more depth to unravel so strong this could go all as a stand-alone movie with few performances ready to run:) The middle entry in Leigh Janiak's Netflix horror trilogy brings the whole project into focus with a night of doom and dread in the forest that makes it even scarier out almost no where to hide! The gratifications of Fear Street: 1978 are not in its few surprises, but in its exploration of the history and dynamics of social division between the campers, counselors, and the communities at large, offering glimpses at the lives of characters whose actions will have an impact on the events of Fear Street: 1994 as Nick and Will Goode, the future sheriff and mayor of Sunnyvale!
Critics Consensus: A smart and subversive twist on slasher horror, Fear Street Part II: 1978 shows that summer camp has never been scarier thanks to stellar performances from Sadie Sink, Emily Rudd, and Ryan Simpkins. As love letters to 1970s and '80s slashers go, this is one of the best I've seen outside of 2015's The Final Girls. So much of the trilogy is dedicated to expositional scenes laying down the foundations of Shadyside's history, there's too much that's admirable in theory and flat on screen. Compared with 1994, in 1978, the kills were more shocking, the atmosphere more tense, the characters more believable and well-rounded, and the world-building more thoughtful. As far as the summer camp genre goes, this is one of the better ones. Here's the bottom line: these are good, well-acted, well-written [R.L.] Stein plots! Fear Street is not just trading in nostalgia, though. It has its own unique tone, and every chance it gets either subverts or deepens classic horror tropes! Less a riff on slasher tropes than '1994,' but instead a straight-up throwback and quite a good one at that! A slow-moving endeavor that fares especially poorly within its deliberate and excessively familiar first half act:)
