The Fear Street Trilogy caught me off guard. Marketed as a teen slasher, with a premise and structuring that only works with this kind of weekly release schedule, Fear Street promised gore, horror, genre appreciation, and maybe a little representation.…
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‘Fear Street Part 2: 1978′ review: A rock n’ roll supernatural horror with slasher movie tendencies
Continuing the slasher movie goodness established in Fear Street Part 1: 1994—which was released last week—Fear Street Part 2: 1978 searches the past for answers at the seemingly harmless Camp Nightwing. Reminiscent of Friday the 13th, the supernatural forces at work…
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Disney, Warner Bros, Universal, and Paramount are currently locked in a cutthroat battle to dominate the streaming landscape. Each of these studios now has their own streaming service, but their approaches wildly differ at the moment. And the surprise wildcard…
Sadie Sink gets up to some ‘stranger things’ in this trailer for Netflix’s ‘Fear Street Part 2: 1978’
The first in the trilogy, Fear Street Part 1: 1994, hit Netflix on July 2 and felt like a typical slasher film geared toward teens. Now Netflix returns with the second installment, Fear Street Part 2: 1978, which looks just…