Meanwhile, the “Camp Nightwing Killer” in Fear Street: 1978 owes a debt to Jason Voorhees-though instead of using a machete, the guy settles for an ax. Fear Street: 1994 most explicitly nods to Scream, all the way down to an opening sequence in which one of the most famous actresses in the ensemble, who also happens to be a descendant of Hollywood royalty, is stabbed to death by a person in a mask.
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and The Goonies, Fear Street gleefully embraces its slasher movie influences. Just as Stranger Things leans into the nostalgia of ’80s classics like E.T. The first Fear Street takes place in 1994, following a group of Shadyside teens who get roped into the witch’s curse its sequels, mostly set in 19, revisit an earlier massacre at a summer camp and Sarah Fier’s origins, respectively. Shadyside’s woes go back to the 17th century, when a woman named Sarah Fier was accused of witchcraft and hanged-but not before she supposedly cursed the land. The trilogy is set in the fictional town of Shadyside, where a history of brutal and spontaneous murders stands in stark contrast to the neighboring Sunnyvale, which is as prosperous as it sounds. That context is important, if only because Fear Street feels like such a perfect fit for Netflix that it might come as a surprise that the movies weren’t made in-house. And for the past three weeks, the streamer has dropped installments every Friday. (It goes without saying, but Mouse House isn’t exactly known for its horror movies just ask The Empty Man.) In the end, Netflix swooped in to acquire Fear Street as part of a broader first-look deal with its production company, Chernin Entertainment. But by the time Fear Street went into production in March 2019, 20th Century Fox’s long-gestating merger with Disney finally became official, leaving the fate of the R-rated homage to slasher films uncertain.
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Stine’s book series of the same name, Fear Street was originally being developed at 20th Century Fox in 2015, which intended to release the three movies across three months-essentially, a more accelerated version of The Lord of the Rings trilogy shooting back-to-back-to-back with three consecutive December release dates. But while those programs still have some kinks to work out, Netflix’s Fear Street has proved to be a much more successful and deceptively simple type of experimentation: the instant gratification of watching an entire horror trilogy in the span of a few weeks. A handful of interactive series have hit the platform, offering a glimpse into an eerie, Black Mirror–esque future of entertainment consumption-naturally, one of the choose-your-own-adventure narratives was, in fact, a Black Mirror episode. (I will always go to bat for theaters, but if none of the major studios were going to fund Scorsese’s late-career gangster opus, at least Netflix footed the bill?) But the streamer’s biggest drawback-that, with rare exceptions, its original projects are watchable only from a living room sofa-can also be used to its advantage. Given how much programming Netflix churns out every year, it’d be too simplistic to label the streamer as wholly good or bad for the film industry.
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