Review: Fear Street 1994 (2021)

Stars: Maya Hawke, Kiana Madeira

Budget: As with most Netflix unobtainable 

Directed By: Leigh Janiak

Okay a bit late to this party but I haven't had Netflix for a while. I've been broke and can usually only afford 1 streaming service at a time here in the UK.

These are a series of books by R L Stein,  yes the prolific teen horror story writer. I think this is a forray into more young adult like horror. I enjoyed R L Stein books as a kid bit they were never as popular here in the UK as in the US.

This book series follows a town in America Shadyside, paired with its neighbouring town Sunnyside. Bad things happen in Shady like people going bananas every few years and killing up some folk.

Some say it's a curse from a witch killed more 300 years ago called Sarah Fier but who believes spooky stories like that?

Due to this there's an underlying feud with Sunnyside who believe they're better. Though this is mostly only brought up in the 1st two films.

Maya Hawke stars in this for all on 5 minutes too, surprising from her role in stranger things she's nerfed in the beginning after making you think she might escape or be the main star.

This one is more the Halloween movie of the bunch. Though I wouldn't typically compare it too much as even though this is a more residential set movie it's multiple killers pretty much from halfway in. The killers are all past killers seemingly brought back by the witch to kill the teens.

Set pieces and effects are pretty decent from cg to practical, with the practical shinning as one of the best parts of this film.

For the first 1/3 of the film we get a girl, Deena fawning over a Sam. She sees lovers everywhere she looks. This Sam moved to Sunnyside and Deena broke up with them.

Then twist!

Sam us a girl and this was more frowned upon back in the archaic times of 90s America.

Apparently more in smaller towns too. Anyway we get the usual team of teens trying to survive/beat the bad guys with some pretty gruesome deaths. It's kind of nasty how some of the cast is knocked off one by one as they learn more and more about the witch and the curse. Then they finally think they're safe, shock twist at the end!

Acting was okay in this, do I think Its fawning?

Not so much in part one, it's a pretty solid base, unfortunately by the time the 3rd movie comes around this is different.

I know I said about a twist but trust me that's not spoiling the end, especially as you know this movie has 2 more parts.

THN awards Fear Street 1994 a decent 3 out of 5 stars.