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Fear Street: 1994 (2021)

Horror | 107 minutes
2,85 444 votes

Genre: Horror / Mystery

Duration: 107 minuten

Alternative title: Fear Street: Part One - 1994

Country: United States

Directed by: Leigh Janiak

Stars: Kiana Madeira, Olivia Scott Welch and Benjamin Flores Jr.

IMDb score: 6,2 (108.298)

Releasedate: 28 June 2021

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Fear Street: 1994 plot

"Face the evil."

A series of terrifying events takes place in the small town of Shadyside, Ohio. A group of teenagers discover that these events may be connected. Worse, they find out that they may just be the next victims.

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john mcclane 2

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This was really surprisingly fun. The pace is quite fast, and the makers manage to let you go around the main characters. to give .

At first I resisted it , another cliché teen slasher , what can this add ?

But it was performed with a lot of love for the genre , with excellent film music that gives it a real epic feel . Really very cinematic.

The 90's songs (at the very beginning) are nice (some unfortunately used broken) but are a bit thick on top of them. They come out of nowhere and often add nothing, except reminding you that it takes place in the 90s.

Keep in mind that pop/rock music in the 90s was one of the best music decades ever. So okay!

The kills are fine for a slasher.

I found the ending exciting , and well thought out , good plot .

The ending was also horribly good! As it should .

Look , it 's not all masterful of course , but I went in blank , and for a netflix horror this is not wrong .

I don't understand the order for now, but maybe if you see all the parts you will.

This is a big enough . But I am horror lover .

Very good .

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rep_robert

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A start of a series with potential, but oh my god what is going on with this film. From minute 1 there is a certain urgency in every dialogue and all conversations are supported with a very annoying musical score. The teenagers are very annoying and don't generate any empathy. They bounce through the picture like ADHD patients and are only concerned with themselves. The hypocrisy is especially shocking. A girl from the same school has been murdered, but everyone at the school mocks it as if her life was nothing. But if students from another school say something about it, then the turnips are done. So you can be disrespectful yourself, but if someone else does it it's a shame..... Of course this doesn't have to be a disaster, but if these are the protagonists who you should care about? no way.

Director Janiak doesn't know how to build a film. That urgency that is in the film from minute 1 ensures that the film does not have a single moment of rest in the first hour to build up the story, deepen the characters and make them sympathetic. The editing is very annoying and nowhere does the film feel "organic and fluid". It's like watching a series of sketches stitched together.

Only after an hour does the film sort of calm down and from that moment on it's mainly about gluing what Fear Street did wrong in the first 60 minutes.
Also, the target audience is not entirely clear to me. It seems to be very child-oriented in terms of humor, characters (and how stupid they behave) and how the film unfolds, but the raunchy moments that go hand in hand make this one for adults. This rudderlessness also spills over to the viewer. What exactly have I been looking at?

I'm looking forward to part two, which is interesting in terms of theme. However, I see the same director and that makes me a lot less hopeful.

2.5* for the whole idea, but then I'm very generous.

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Shadyside's reputation as a Killer Capital is confirmed when a presumed harmless teenager causes a massacre in a shopping center. According to folklore, the cause lies with Sarah Fier, a witch who in 1666 cast a curse during her execution that causes her soul to once in a while take possession of an innocent resident of Shadyside to take revenge. If the lore is true then Samantha [Olivia Scott Welch] is doomed to die, but her friend Deena [Kiana Madeira] and her brother Josh [Benjamin Flores Jr.] are determined to find a way to break the curse. The answer may lie with Cindy Berman [Gillian Jacobs], who miraculously survived a similar massacre at a summer camp in 1978. The first of three films based on the books by RL Stine refers emphatically to Scream during the opening, but turns out to be absolutely no parody. With sympathetic and well-developed characters that make short shrift of the stereotypes of slasher films, this is in fact a strong teen drama in a horror jacket with a strong acting, young cast. Original, entertaining and although it is aimed at a teenage audience, there is at least one execution that will stick in your mind for a while. And the soundtrack is to die for! An excellent start to a Netflix trilogy that aired in weekly intervals in July 2021. Continued: Fear Street: 1978.

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