Fear Street Parte 1: 1994

I didn't read the Fear Street books growing up, although I did read Goosebumps. Considering this was an R rated adaptation, I was cautiously optimistic.

I loved the opening scene. It felt like a nice call back to Scream. It wasn't nearly as iconic, but it did enough right to set my expectations high. Then the plot starts developing, and it goes downhill fast.

The characters are mostly annoying. I could argue I mildly liked two of them, but that's it. The protagonist is incredibly self absorbed, and treats her ex horribly. We've got the nerdy kid who knows literally everything. The comic relief who has maybe two lines in the movie that aren't jokes. Etc.

Then there's the tone. The best way I could describe it is the kid friendly feel of the Goosebumps movie mixed with a slasher film. Anytime someone isn't being murdered, it's really light in tone and kinda jarring. The profanity and innuendos are present during these scenes, but they still feel very kiddish, for lack of a better word. The closest example I could think of for a movie like this is "Summer of '84", but that wasn't nearly as light, and it was far more consistent.

The 90's music, while good, is heavily overused. The early parts of the film feel like someone turned on a malfunctioning jukebox that switches songs every ten seconds. Sometimes less is more.

The horror scenes are actually really good. The opening scene and climax are my favorites, but I enjoyed the rest as well. If the entire film was as good as the horror, I'd honestly consider giving this a 9/10, but I kept getting taken out of the film when there was downtime. There was very little tension or decent drama, just an overly quick pace with humor and exposition to bridge the scares.

It's on Netflix, so if you're interested I guess it's worth a shot. I'm disappointed, as it could've been an absolute classic, but if it sounds like your kinda thing you might like it.

The movie is decent,but I'm not satisfied at all. The makers should have done way better with this story. The events are happening in 1994,but nothing seemed like 1994 at all. They just played some 90's songs back to back and that's it. The direction and cinematography were too weak. In fact the directior should be banned from doing horror movies. The actors were also terrible.

With all this negatives,the movie is still engaging (one time watch). That's why I'm giving 6.

I wanted to like the film. The girls are beautiful, it's an R. Stine R rated adaptation, it's a trilogy. I really wanted to be entertained for five hours. However the film just felt... dumb. I couldn't take another "stupid kids in the 90s" story, I couldn't care less about the rivalry between the two neighboring towns, but at least I expected something terrifying or fantastic or interesting or intelligent. Instead I watch half a movie as people dressed in a death costume stalk people, stab them out of nowhere, while said people believe it's a joke or someone they have some beef with fooling around. Because, get this, the town is called Murder Capital USA by the media, but NO ONE expects to be murdered and there is only one sheriff for the entire town. No, it was too stupid and the prospect of watching not only the other half of the movie, but two more that do the same thing, was too painful to contemplate.

Bottom line: perhaps other people might enjoy it. I found it boring and anachronistic, mixing 1990 dumbassery with modern LGBTQ ideas, because why not, but otherwise being nor scary nor funny.

I looked up the books and they are almost uniformly 4/5 stars, although they seem to have twists and a clear history of why the people in that area behave the way they do and so on. Perhaps reading the books it's a better idea.

This film was ok in parts but with a few jump scenes overall it was boring and predictable. It wasn't scary at all even though there is some slasher scenes during the film. It didn't didn't seem like the 90s to me apart from when you see the old internet chat rooms! I know horror films do have a young cast but the kids in this look really young and we're not the best actors. It's not the worst horror I have watched but have seen a lot better. A lot of horrors especially new ones all seem the same. Unless your really bored I wouldn't bother with this one. There's not many good horror films on Netflix at the moment.

You've gotta be kidding me.

This movie has fun, a little surprises, however, I would suggest not to exceed your expectations before watching this movie. I'd been waiting to watch it for some time since it was announced by Netflix. It is, yet another, dark horrifying slasher. Haven't we watched the same again and again? This movie does have good fun though, you could enjoy it to some extent. Above Average. That's What a very good slasher movie can ho upto.