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Fear Street: Prom Queenbecame no. 1 on Netflix's global weekly chart in less than a week. Released on May 23, the fourth installment after the 2021 trilogy, 1994, 1978, and 1666, is the first standalone movie in the Fear Street series. Starring India Fowler as Lori Granger, Suzanna Son as Megan Rogers, Fina Strazza as Tiffany Falconer, and others, the movie sees the masked slasher return to Shadyside.

According to Netflix, Fear Street: Prom Queen debuted with 10.7 million views in just three days, with 16 million total hours watched. This was enough to claim the top spot on the streamer's chart after Nonnas dominated it for two weeks. The movie is followed by Puss in Boots: The Last Wish at no. 2 with 8.7 million views, while the Vince Vaughn movie sits at no. 3, having garnered 8.4 million views and 16 million total viewing hours.

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The latest Netflix original movie has made a bloody splash on the platform. Fear Street: Prom Queen is dominating the streaming charts just five days after its debut on Netflix.

Per FlixPatrol,Prom Queen has been either the No. 1 or No. 2 movie on Netflix's Top 10 This Week streaming charts in Canada, the United States, and a handful of other countries since its release on the platform on July 23. However, there are a few countries where the fourth Fear Street movie has failed to top the local streaming charts, such as India (No. 5 or No. 6), Ireland (No. 4 or No. 5), Japan (No. 5 or No. 6), Malaysia (No. 3 or No. 4), New Zealand (No. 3 or No. 8), and South Korea (No. 4 or No. 7). The slasher movie has found success despite receiving a largely negative response from critics and audiences, with the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes noting approval ratings of 33% and 27%, respectively.

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Netflix’s 2025 horror movie Fear Street: Prom Queen revives the slasher genre with a story set in 1988 Shadyside. Based on R.L. Stine’s novel, the movie follows high school senior Lori Granger, an underdog aiming for the prom queen title. As prom night approaches, candidates are targeted by a masked killer, turning the celebration into a nightmare. Directed by Matt Palmer, the film combines teen drama with suspense, featuring a talented cast that brings the eerie tale to life. In this article, we explore the cast & character, filming locations, and plotline of Fear Street: Prom Queen that helps shape the movie’s tone.

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Set in 1988, Fear Street: Prom Queen centers on Lori Granger, a high school senior with a troubled family history. Determined to redefine herself, she campaigns for prom queen. However, her rivals begin to die under mysterious circumstances. The killer is revealed to be Dan and Nancy Falconer,...

Netflix has returned to horror territory with the release of Fear Street: Prom Queen. The film is their fourth entry in the Fear Street film series, which is based on R.L. Stine's book series of the same name. While the latest installment of the franchise has not exactly endeared itself to critics, it has topped the Netflix chart, as you would expect. Ahead of the release of the new movie, director Matt Palmer has revealed one of his strongest inspirations for the movie. This time, we need to travel further back in time and land in 1976, when the cult horror classic Alice, Sweet Alice was released.

Palmer sat down to talk about Fear Street: Prom Queen with Bloody Disgusting. Previously, the director talked to Netflix and addressed some of his influences and he listed films like Scream, Happy Birthday to Me, and Sleepaway Camp. However, this time he addressed...

Look alive, Shadysiders! Netflix's newest slasher, Fear Street: Prom Queen, has earned the crown after just one weekend, taking top spot on the streamer's Top 10 list despite a Rotten Tomatoes score of 31%. Prom Queen marks the fourth entry in the popular Fear Street saga that began in 2021 with three movies released in quick succession, with the latest offering being a stand-alone film based on the 15th novel in R.L. Stine's young adult novel series.

Combining familiar elements from slasher films of yesteryear like Prom Night and Alice, Sweet Alice, Fear Street: Prom Queen follows prom season at Shadyside High as the school's wolfpack of It Girls is busy with its usual sweet and vicious campaigns for the crown. When a gutsy outsider (India Fowler) puts herself in the running, and the other girls start mysteriously disappearing, the class of '88 suddenly finds itself in for one hell of a prom night.

Netflix's long-awaited Fear Street: Prom Queen is among the latest horror movies to premiere in the past few weeks, being released on the streaming service on May 23, 2025. Sadly, the fourth installment in the Fear Street film series isn't garnering the positive reviews many hoped for, and has seriously failed to live up to the trilogy that so impressed genre fans and critics back in 2021.

Fear Street: Prom Queen stars India Fowler, Suzanna Son, Fina Strazza, David Iacono, Ella Rubin, Chris Klein, Ariana Greenblatt, Lili Taylor, and Katherine Waterston. It is based on the novel "The Prom Queen," written by R. L. Stine from the teenage horror fiction series "Fear Street." The plot follows a masked killer who targets candidates at Shadyside High on the night of their senior dance in 1988. Although it had the potential to be a modern prom horror hit, possibly drawing inspiration from Carrie or Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II,...

Most film critics turned their backs on “Fear Street: Prom Queen” the day it started streaming. And yet, halfway through its world premiere weekend, Netflix‘s trending teen slasher is still popular with plenty of subscribers. Co-written by director Matt Palmer and Donald McLeary, “Prom Queen” is a goofy-gory throwback about a pack of high school frenemies battling a masked killer in 1988.

A victim of the Shadyside curse series fans know all too well, Lori Granger (India Fowler) is convinced that winning the prom queen crown will clear her disgraced family name. But when the confetti flies and student blood starts to spill, our final girl becomes the epicenter for one of the worst massacres in the town’s history. Stalked by a silently snarky figure in a bright-red raincoat, queen bee Tiffany (Fina Strazza), “Carrie”-esque love interest Tyler (David Iacono), gossip Debbie (Rebecca Ablack), straight-a student Linda (Ilan O’Driscoll...

Fear Street: Prom Queen (2025) revolves around a horrifying night in the lives of suburban teenagers. It shows a masked killer out to hunt down the prom queen contestants one by one. With this film, the Fear Street franchise makes a return to Netflix. However, instead of Leigh Janiak who directed the initial trilogy, Matt Palmer takes over the directorial reigns. The film primarily follows Lori Granger, who seeks redemption for herself and her mother, who has a dark history associated with the prom night. Toward the end, the film reveals Lori’s fate as she discovers the person behind the mask.

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Fear Street: Prom Queen (2025) Plot Summary & Movie Synopsis:

‘Fear Street: Prom Queen’ is directed by Matt Palmer from a script he co-wrote with Donald McLeary based on R. L. Stine’s novel, The Prom Queen (1992).

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Set in Shadyside in 1988, the...

Netflix's new slasher thriller, Fear Street: Prom Queen, showcased the debut of a new protagonist: Lori Granger. Fear Street: Prom Queen is a standalone entry set in the world of the Fear Street universe in 1988, and it revolves around a terrifying red-coated serial killer who brutally murders the prom queen nominees in Shadyside High. 

Fear Street: Prom Queen features a cast of rising stars led by Ariana Greenblatt as Christy Renault, Ella Rubin as Melissa McKendrick, Fina Strazza as Tiffany Falconer, Suzanna Son as Megan Rogers, Chris Klein as Dan Falconer, Katherine Waterston as Nancy Falconer, and India Fowler as Lori Granger. 

Who Is Granger In Fear Street? Read full article on The Direct.

For all its stab-happy bravado and garish neon style, Fear Street: Prom Queen is less a triumphant return to Shadyside than it is a competent if derivative riff on the slashers of yesteryear. Directed by Calibre’s Matt Palmer, this latest Netflix horror outing doesn’t so much reinvent the wheel as ride it straight into a blood-soaked locker room, armed with a buzzsaw and a very ‘80s mixtape.

Set in 1988, the story centres on Lori Granger (India Fowler), a soft-spoken outsider whose tragic family history makes her the school’s resident pariah. She’s inexplicably nominated for prom queen alongside Tiffany Falconer (Fina Strazza), the leader of a snarling clique known as the Wolf Pack. When candidates start dropping like hairspray-flecked flies, suspicion, blood and body parts mount in tandem. This time round the killer is masked figure in a red slicker, apparently inspired by I Know What You...

The well-trodden path back to Shadyside, Ohio, beckons once more, this time leading us to the neon-hued anxieties of 1988 in “Fear Street: Prom Queen.” This installment positions itself as a distinct chapter within the larger Fear Street mythos, content to tell its own tale of terror. The premise is a recognizable one for aficionados of the slasher form: the seemingly innocent, if fiercely contested, race for Shadyside High’s prom queen tiara.

Yet, this being Shadyside, the path to coronation is paved not merely with social maneuvering but with a mounting body count, as a newly masked assailant begins to systematically eliminate the hopefuls. The narrative machinery cranks up around this central, sanguinary pageant.

The Players in Peril: Archetypes on Prom Night

“Fear Street: Prom Queen” assembles its cast of potential victims and villains around the bright lights of the school gymnasium, adhering closely to established teen horror frameworks. At one side stands Lori Granger,...

Netflix’s Fear Street: Prom Queen has allowed fans to immerse themselves in high school nostalgia — onscreen and in real life.

Based on author R.L. Stine’s books, the fourth film in the streamer’s slasher series began streaming Friday. Writer-director Matt Palmer’s feature stars India Fowler, Suzanna Son, David Iacono, Ella Rubin, Ariana Greenblatt and Rebecca Ablack. Set in 1988, the movie centers on teen girls disappearing from a popular clique at Shadyside High.

During an interactive event that ran May 17-19, Netflix created a terrifying prom experience for visitors to the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles. On May 18, Palmer and the cast attended the Shadyside High Senior Prom ’88 experience as guests explored versions of the gymnasium, lockers, girls’ bathroom and more locations designed to frighten fans.

“Fear Street is a beloved franchise, so our main goal was for the experience to mirror everything the fandom loves about the...

As enamored as I was with the Goosebumps books at the public library when I was growing up, I was just as obsessed with R.L. Stine's Fear Street novels. There was something more dangerous about them, more edgy, more slasher-y. While Goosebumps sparked my imagination with frightful fun, Fear Street gave me something to look forward to fearing when I was old enough to cross the street to Shadyside.

I was fortunate to even own some Fear Street books at a young age, when an older cousin gave my family several grocery bags of books for my sister and I to enjoy. Nestled between used paperbacks of The Baby-Sitters Club and Full House stories were a stack of Stine's Fear Street titles (as well as a couple of Christopher Pike books), and ocassionally I would gaze at the eerie covers of these books, wondering what types of terror awaited me within its yellowed,...

Spoiler Alert: This article contains spoilers about “Fear Street: Prom Queen,” now streaming on Netflix.

Growing up in the U.K., “Fear Street: Prom Queen” director and co-screenwriter Matt Palmer wasn’t too familiar with R. L. Stine’s teen horror novel series that launched the Netflix film franchise. They had “Goosebumps,” Stine’s more popular series for younger readers, but “Fear Street” hadn’t made as much impact across the pond.

Luckily, Palmer was still approached to direct “Prom Queen,” the fourth chapter in the “Fear Street” film series, before producers had cemented which of the ten titles they had narrowed down to consider adapting next. This book spoke to him, even as he was well out of high school.

“The idea was like, ‘What if you tried to write a teen movie in the John Hughes mold — the kids were in “The Breakfast Club” — but there was a...

This week brings the return of Netflix’s Fear Street movie franchise and the debut of Until Dawn at home, along with a new Shudder Original horror movie… and that’s only the start.

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Felipe Vargas (Milk Teeth) makes his feature directorial debut with the horror movie Rosario, which was released in theaters earlier this month. The film debuted at home this week.

You can rent Rosario on Digital for $19.99 or purchase it for $24.99.

Alan Trezza (We Summon the Darkness, Burying the Ex) wrote the film, which explores the weight of generational secrets and the price we pay for the dreams we inherit.

Emeraude Toubia (“Shadowhunters”) and David Dastmalchian (Late Night with the Devil) star.

“Wall Street stockbroker Rosario returns to her grandmother’s apartment after her sudden death.

Ruthless yet inspired kills, expansive lore, and spirited personality made Leigh Janek’s Fear Street trilogy, based on the novels by R.L. Stine, the summer horror event of 2021. New standalone entry Fear Street: Prom Queen, nestled chronologically between Fear Street: 1978 and Fear Street: 1994, features none of that. Instead, the 1988-set slasher opts for shallow pastiche, bland kills, and a grating cast of characters. It makes for an excruciating return to the cursed town of Shadyside.

A quick recap reminding viewers of Shadyside’s penchant for cranking out masked serial killers kicks off Prom Queen before settling into introductions to the roster of prom queen candidates that’ll be targeted by the latest villain. Meek outcast Lori Granger (India Fowler) hopes to escape her family’s tarnished reputation by winning the coveted prom queen crown, but she has stiff competition with The Wolf Pack, the clique of mean girls led...

Welcome back to Shadyside! Netflix’s Fear Street franchise returns with a new standalone installment, Fear Street: Prom Night.

I spoke with director/co-writer Matt Palmer and actors India Fowler, Suzanna Son, Fina Strazza, David Iacono, Ella Rubin, Rebecca Ablack, and Ariana Greenblatt about carving out their own unique corner of the Fear Street universe with a slasher that’s set in and steeped in the 1980s.

While 2021’s Fear Street trilogy drew broad inspiration from R.L. Stine‘s ’90s teen horror novels, Prom Queen is based on a specific book in the series — 1992’s The Prom Queen — but don’t expect a straight adaptation.

“Because it was a slasher movie and in slasher movies you have the whodunit element, it felt like we had to go in a different direction, and R.L. Stine’s really open to that,” Palmer explains. “I thought the book had an absolutely killer premise,...

The Rotten Tomatoes score for Fear Street: Prom Queen has been revealed. It's Netflix's latest foray into the Fear Street horror franchise, which began in 2021 with Fear Street Part One: 1994. Prom Queen sees director Matt Palmer take over after the previous three projects were directed by Leigh Janiak. This latest version of the slasher horror film follows the story of a high school where those competing for prom queen begin to disappear. The Fear Street: Prom Queen cast includes India Fowler, Suzanna Son, Fina Strazza, Katherine Waterston, and Chris Klein.

Now, the Rotten Tomatoes score for Fear Street: Prom Queen is a 48% Tomatometer with 23 critics' reviews so far. It does not yet have a Popcornmeter. This score is subject to some change, as the movie was just released on Netflix. If the score stands, it will be considered the lowest-scored movie in the franchise.

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In 2020, with theaters struggling during Covid-19 lockdown protocols, Netflix made a genius play by acquiring Disney's Fear Street films for a triple-feature summer release. Horror fans were buzzing about Leigh Janiak's R.L. Stine adaptations, which became a minor cultural event. You'd think Netflix would ride that hype into future entries, right? Unfortunately, Matt Palmer's Fear Street: Prom Queen is slinking onto Netflix with little fanfare, as is the company's typical hushed (aka non-existent) release strategy. Even more unfortunate, Fear Street: Prom Queen is an underwhelming follow-up that lacks the presence and bite of Janiak's far superior trifecta—Fear Street by name, but unexceptional and sophomoric by comparison.

Palmer and co-writer Donald McLeary adapt Stine's "The Prom Queen" (1992), about a bloody high school celebration. The film revolves around Shadyside teen Lori Granger (India Fowler), a reluctant outcast running for prom queen against the "It Girls." Lori's main rival is...

After four long years, Netflix's Fear Street series is finally back with Prom Queen, but does the new slasher measure up to the expectations set by the original trilogy? According to its Rotten Tomatoes score, not so much. Debuting with a "rotten" rating of just 50%, it appears that the Shadyside sequel is dividing critics down the middle, with some calling it "a slick ride of panic" and others "a massive nothingburger."

Starring an ensemble cast that includes the likes of India Fowler, Suzanna Son, Fina Strazza, and David Iacono, Fear Street: Prom Queen adapts the 15th book in R.L. Stine's beloved series, and centers around Shadyside High's annual prom celebration, which sees the school's wolfpack of It Girls busy with its usual sweet and vicious campaigns for the crown. When a gutsy outsider puts herself in the running, and the other girls start mysteriously disappearing, the class...

The blood-soaked streets of Shadyside are calling once more. Netflix flings open the doors to a terrifyingly familiar past with the global premiere of Fear Street: Prom Queen, the latest installment in the hit horror franchise based on R.L. Stine’s chilling book series. Available for streaming now, this fourth chapter transports viewers to 1988, promising a deadly dance steeped in ’80s slasher glory and the enduring curse that haunts the ill-fated town.

The arrival of Fear Street: Prom Queen marks a significant return for the franchise, nearly four years after the innovative weekly release of the Fear Street trilogy in the summer of 2021 captivated audiences and earned critical acclaim. That trilogy masterfully wove a narrative spanning centuries, and its success clearly signaled a potent appetite for Stine’s darker, more mature brand of horror.

The film’s 1988 setting is a deliberate dive into the era of big hair and even bigger shoulder pads,...

Can an even meaner “Carrie” actually end well for the prom queen? In Netflix’s new “Fear Street” adaptation, Matt Palmer argues yes and no with a whip-smart teen horror movie co-written by the director and Donald McLeary. An even gorier “Heathers” crowned in the pitch-black comedy era of “Bottoms,” “Fear Street: Prom Queen” is anchored in the same vicious and girly roots as the original film trilogy from 2021 — albeit missing some of the scope and style inherent to Leigh Janiak’s three-part slasher epic. Still, Palmer and McLeary’s take is giddy and gruesome, a clever next chapter with a fresh killer whose bloody raincoat isn’t the only detail to scream “I Know What You Did Last Summer.”

References don’t make a good movie any more than they make a good movie review, but “Fear Street: Prom Queen” successfully uses genre homage to carbonate R.L. Stine’s...

In the summer of 2021, Netflix unleashed the ambitious "Fear Street" trilogy with charming results. Based (loosely) on the YA horror series by "Goosebumps" maestro R.L. Stine, the three films were slasher pastiches that appealed to those of us who grew up haunting the video store horror section for "Friday the 13th" sequels and the original "Scream." Under the guidance of director Leigh Janiak, who also co-wrote the films, the three "Fear Street" films — "Fear Street: 1994," "Fear Street: 1978," and "Fear Street: 1666" spun a sprawling, detailed mythology set in the fictional, cursed town of Shadyside, where bad things happen on a regular basis.

The three films were clever, fun, and gave us a winning cast of likable characters. More than that, they left room for more. The groundwork was laid for Netflix to return to Shadyside for additional tales of YA terror. And yet, it took the streaming service...

We don’t talk enough about Leigh Janiak’s impressive “Fear Street” film trilogy, based the young adult horror novels by R.L. Stine. Four years ago Janiak unveiled, one week after another, three mostly-fantastic interconnected horror films inspired by different historical eras. The first was based on slasher movies from the 1990s. The second was based on slasher films from the 1980s. The third was based on folk horror… and also slasher movies from the 1990s. They all told a complete story with rich and fascinating characters. They were also scary as hell.

The time has come — finally! — to go back to “Fear Street,” and this time Netflix is doing something a little different. Instead of harkening back to, for example, slasher movies from the 1980s, “Fear Street: Prom Queen” harkens back to [checks notes] slasher movies from the 1980s. But wait! This time it’s prom night 1980s slasher movies. Last...

I spoke with Fear Street: Prom Queen director Matt Palmer about the look of the film’s killer, which draws inspiration from Alfred Sole‘s 1976 proto-slasher Alice, Sweet Alice.

“Alice, Sweet Alice was definite influence. There’s a chase scene in that with the killer in the raincoat. And I’m big giallo fan too, so I think there was a giallo element that I always wanted from the start,” Palmer explains to Bloody Disgusting.

“We were like, ‘What color of jacket we put against the red lockers?’ We looked at yellow, but that felt a bit too on the nose, because Alice, Sweet Alice already done that. We tried blue. And then one of our concept artists came back with red on red, which we hadn’t thought of because we were looking for something that wasn’t red, and it was like, ‘Oh, my God! That looks awesome!

One minute is all it took to get us hooked. Netflix's latest R.L. Stine flick is set for release this weekend, and you know you will want to watch. Fear Street: Prom Queen is the fourth installment of the Fear Street franchise and might be the scariest. That is based on the one minute of footage the streaming giant gave us.

Fear Street: Prom Queen takes place in 1988 and follows the ongoings of who will be prom queen in Shadyside. The It Girls think they have the situation under control, but then an outsider is nominated for queen and all heck starts breaking loose.

The It Girls start disappearing, which might make us think the outsider is behind it. But why be so obvious? Surely, that is not the case.

One minute of Fear Street: Prom Queen is enough to make you watch (and be fearful)

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Fear Street: Prom Queen, the continuation of the Fear Street film franchise that began with the release of the trilogy of Fear Street Part One: 1994, Fear Street Part Two: 1978, and Fear Street Part Three: 1666 on the Netflix streaming service back in the summer of 2021, made its way through production last year, and recently it was announced that the new film will be available to watch on Netflix as of May 23rd. With that date just a few days away, Netflix has released a 1 minute clip from the movie that shows one of its young characters coming face-to-face with the killer – and you can check it out in the embed below!

Author R.L. Stine has written over 100 books that have been published under the various Fear Street banners. While the initial trilogy of films wasn’t directly based on any specific Fear Street book, the new movie will be telling a...

Ella Rubin (Until Dawn) comes face-to-face with the killer in the one-minute clip from Fear Street: Prom Queen below.

Based on R.L. Stine‘s 1992 Fear Street novel The Prom Queen, the film slashes onto Netflix this Friday, May 23.

Prom season at Shadyside High is underway and the school’s wolfpack of It Girls is busy with its usual sweet and vicious campaigns for the crown. But when a gutsy outsider is unexpectedly nominated to the court, and the other girls start mysteriously disappearing, the class of ’88 is suddenly in for one hell of a prom night.

Rubin stars alongside India Fowler (“The Agency”), Suzanna Son (Red Rocket), Fina Strazza (“Paper Girls”), Chris Klein (American Pie), David Iacono (“Dead Boy Detectives”), Ariana Greenblatt (Barbie), Lili Taylor (The Conjuring), and Katherine Waterston (Alien: Covenant) star.

Darrin Baker (“The Strain”), Rebecca Ablack (“Ginny & Georgia”), Ilan O’Driscoll, Damian Romeo (“Ginny & Georgia”), Dakota Taylor...

Are you ready for slasher season, Netflix fans? With the summer movie releases (and into October), we can expect a bunch of horror films. Some of these will be quite good, as horror is a relatively underrated genre.

Of course, it isn't for everyone. Many don't like to see gruesome murders, and that is entirely fair. Even though the filmmaking might be brilliant, it is difficult to get past all the gore. Being scary and chilling is good, but being gross to be gross is bad.

The good thing about most R.L. Stine adaptations is that they take the intentional campiness of the original material, add the gore, and give us something relatively short and entertaining. For instance, Fear Street: Prom Queen, which debuts on Netflix on Friday, May 23, is only an hour and 28 minutes long.

Netflix's Fear Street: Prom Queen will be arriving soon

The film is Netflix's fourth...

Even though we've barely reached the summer movie season yet, it's been another killer year for horror. Particularly for slashers. Heart Eyes has already carved up Valentine’s Day, but later this month, Fear Street: Prom Queen will turn the end of the school year blood-red. The R.L. Stine Netflix film is returning genre fans to the cursed town of Shadyside. Now, the film is paying tribute to high school slashers' past with some new deadly posters.

The two new Prom Queen posters honor 1976’s Brian De Palma adaptation of Carrie and 1980’s Prom Night, the latter of which starred horror icon Jamie Lee Curtis. The Carrie-inspired poster mirrors the two-image classic design, showing the before and bloody aftermath of star India Fowler at Shadyside’s Prom. The tagline, “If You're Hungry For Horror… Come To Shadyside’s Senior Prom” is also very similar to Carrie’s chilling warning. Finally,...

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A new image offers a closer look at Fear Street: Prom Queen. The 2025 horror movie is the fourth installment in Netflix's Fear Street franchise, which is adapted from the R.L. Stine young adult series of the same name. The upcoming Fear Street: Prom Queen is set in the unlucky town of Shadyside in 1988. In the movie, which stars India Fowler, Ella Rubin, Suzanna Son, Ariana Greenblatt, David Iacono, Fina Strazza, Chris Klein, Lili Taylor, and Katherine Waterston, a killer begins to stalk the local high school's prom queen candidates one by one.

ScreenRant can now share a first-look image from Fear Street: Prom Queen ahead of its Netflix debut on May 23. The image shows a trio of students looking concerned at prom. While they do not look entirely panicked,...

Netflix is heading back to Shadyside this month with Fear Street: Prom Queen, the latest entry in the horror franchise adapted from R.L. Stine’s teen slasher series. The new instalment arrives on 23 May, accompanied by a trailer that blends neon-drenched nostalgia with a growing body count, as prom night turns deadly once again.

Set in 1988, Prom Queen unfolds at Shadyside High, where the annual prom is less about corsages and more about survival. A clique of status-obsessed popular girls is preparing for the big night when an unexpected rival enters the race for the crown. But as the competition heats up, candidates begin to vanish, and it becomes clear that someone is willing to kill for the crown.

India Fowler leads the cast as the outsider nominee caught in the middle of the chaos. She’s joined by Suzanna Son, Fina Strazza, Ariana Greenblatt, Ella Rubin, and David Iacono,...

Party like it’s 1988 at Fear Street: Prom Queen‘s Shadyside High Senior Prom ’88 immersive experience.

Netflix is transforming Los Angeles’ historic Fonda Theatre into Shadyside High School for an interactive prom-themed event where a killer is on the loose.

As guests try their very best to have the time of their lives at the high school event of the year, no amount of revelry can mask the fact that prom queen contenders are disappearing, body parts are popping up all over, and the sights and sounds of gory violence are closing in.

Shows take place on May 17, May 18, and May 19.

Free tickets are available now. Each slot takes approximately 45 minutes to complete, and ’80s prom attire is encouraged.

Fear Street: Prom Queen slashes onto Netflix on May 23.

Based on R.L. Stine‘s 1992 Fear Street novel The Prom Queen, Matt Palmer (Calibre) directs from a script he co-wrote with Donald McLeary.

Fear Street: Prom Queen, the continuation of the Fear Street film franchise that began with the release of the trilogy of Fear Street Part One: 1994, Fear Street Part Two: 1978, and Fear Street Part Three: 1666 on the Netflix streaming service back in the summer of 2021, made its way through production last year, and recently it was announced that the new film will be available to watch on Netflix as of May 23rd. With that date just a couple weeks away, a batch of character posters have been released online, and you can check them out at the bottom of this article.

Author R.L. Stine has written over 100 books that have been published under the various Fear Street banners. While the initial trilogy of films wasn’t directly based on any specific Fear Street book, the new movie will be telling a version of the story Stine crafted for his 1992 book The Prom Queen.

A series of Fear Street: Prom Queen characters posters introduce the couples attending Shadyside High’s 1988 prom.

They include: India Fowler (“The Agency”) and Suzanna Son (Red Rocket), Fina Strazza (“Paper Girls”) and David Iacono (“Dead Boy Detectives”), Ella Rubin (Until Dawn) and Ryan Rosery (“Mayor of Kingstown”), Rebecca Ablack (“Ginny & Georgia”) and Damian Romeo (“Ginny & Georgia”), and Ilan O’Driscoll and Dakota Taylor (“Sullivan’s Crossing”).

Based on the 1992 R.L. Stine novel The Prom Queen, the fourth film in the Fear Street franchise releases May 23 on Netflix.

Prom season at Shadyside High is underway and the school’s wolfpack of It Girls is busy with its usual sweet and vicious campaigns for the crown. But when a gutsy outsider is unexpectedly nominated to the court, and the other girls start mysteriously disappearing, the class of ’88 is suddenly in for one hell of a prom night.

Matt Palmer (Calibre) directs...

May signals the transition between spring and summer, and the slate of new films rotating onto Netflix this month also reflect the pollen in the air and the later and later sunsets.

Whether the warmer weather and longer stretches of daylight encourage the scaredy cats to venture outside their comfort zones and watch some thrillers or whether it calls for more lighthearted fair in the form of animated adventures or romantic comedies, Netflix has its viewers set for all kinds of options in May 2025. For those looking to stream A Simple Favor, to refresh ahead of the sequel film Another Simple Favor now on Prime Video, the original film will be on Netflix until May 19.

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Prom night is supposed to be unforgettable … right? Your high school gymnasium is all decked out with colorful streamers and sparkling lights. Mirror balls, paper crowns, nervous smiles… all for a perfect night when the promise of a bright tomorrow lingers above slow dancers like machine-made fog.

But for the characters in Netflix’s latest horror event, prom is certainly a night that’ll never be forgotten … but for all the wrong reasons. In Fear Street: Prom Queen, the new viciously fun slasher installment of R.L. Stine’s beloved universe, the evening ends in carnage, and a high school gym is decorated with viscera instead of balloons.

I guess the old adage is true: evil does love to party.

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This May, we are getting a ton of content from the much-anticipated return of Love, Death and Robots and Nine Perfect Strangers on streaming, to the release of some of the most anticipated movies of this year, such as Thunderbolts* and Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. This upcoming month will see the release of many great movies, so we thought of compiling a list of all the best movies that are coming straight to streaming.

Another Simple Favor (Prime Video) – May 1, 2025 Credit – Amazon MGM Studios

Another Simple Favor is a dark comedy mystery film directed by Paul Feig from a screenplay by Jessica Sharzer and Laeta Kalogridis. The 2025 sequel film is set five years after the events of the first film, and it follows Stephanie as she is invited by Emily to her wedding in Italy. Stephanie fears...

La saga ‘La Calle del Terror’ vuelve con un nuevo capítulo ambientado en 1988. © Netflix

Netflix ha compartido el primer tráiler y póster de la película La calle del terror: La reina del baile, un nuevo capítulo de la saga slasher que la plataforma de streaming ensambló en 2021 con una trilogía que viajaba en el tiempo entre 1994, 1978 y 1666. Ahora, esta nueva Fear Street: Prom Queen, dirigida por Matt Palmer, nos devolverá al oscuro corazón de Shadyside en 1988.

Basada en la novela de R.L. Stine, en esta nueva entrega, los preparativos para el baile de graduación de Shadyside High han comenzado y las chicas más populares del colegio están ocupadísimas con sus encantadoras –y despiadadas– campañas para ser la reina del baile, pero cuando alguien empieza a masacrar a las candidatas una a una, se desata el infierno.

La película está protagonizada por India Fowler (La agencia), Suzanna Son (Red Rocket), Fina Strazza...

Shelter PR, the bi-coastal PR firm repping some of the industry’s top talent that’s also a key player in the awards space, has promoted four senior publicists across its Los Angeles and New York offices.

The promotees are Jenny Tversky, Jessica Sze, Stephanie Kazanjian, and Larissa Saenz, who (with the exception of Saenz), worked alongside Shelter PR’s founding Partners — Marla Farrell, Cara Tripicchio and Christine Tripicchio — during their earlier tenure at Wkt Public Relations, the firm now known as Wolf Kasteler PR.

Named Executive Vice President, Tversky will oversee company and staff relations across both coasts. A founding member of Shelter PR, Sze has been promoted to Vice President within the company’s New York office, as has Kazanjian. And then there’s Saenz, who has been named a Vice President of Shelter PR’s Los Angeles office.

In a statement on the promotions, the Shelter Partners said,...

Veteran publicists Jenny Tversky, Stephanie Kazanjian, Jessica Sze and Larissa Saenz have been promoted to new roles at Shelter PR.

The bicoastal PR firm was founded in 2014 by partners Marla Farrell, Cara and Christine Tripicchio after they separated from Wkt Public Relations, where they worked alongside one another for 13 years.

“As we reflect on the past decade since we formed Shelter PR, we attribute the company’s success to our dedicated, innovative and ambitious team,” stated Farrell and the Tripicchios. “It is with immense pride that we recognize the achievements of several of our senior executives with well-deserved promotions, including Jenny Tversky, Stephanie Kazanjian, Jessica Sze and Larissa Saenz, all of whom have established themselves as formidable publicists and trailblazers across both coasts and in the global market. We are excited to witness their continued growth in their new leadership roles.”

Tversky has been named executive VP, overseeing company and staff relations across both coasts.

May brings a wave of new content to Netflix, with stories ranging from laugh-out-loud comedies to edge-of-your-seat thrillers. There’s a little something for everyone, whether you’re into big-name casts or hidden gems.

I’m pumped about this month’s mix of originals, classic movies, and a live event to close things out. Let’s dive into some of the standout titles hitting the service.

‘The Four Seasons’ (May 1)

Tina Fey co-created and stars in ‘The Four Seasons,’ a comedy series remaking the 1981 film. Alongside Steve Carell, Colman Domingo, and Will Forte, Fey explores three couples whose group vacations get messy after a breakup. It’s funny and heartfelt.

Debuting on May 1, this show nails friendship and love with a great cast. The humor and drama make it a solid watch for comedy fans looking for something fresh.

‘The Royals’ (May 9)

‘The Royals’ is an Indian romantic drama starring Bhumi Pednekar and Ishaan Khatter.

May’s lineup on Netflix is packed with fresh stories and familiar faces. From heartfelt comedies to chilling thrillers, there’s something for everyone. We’re getting a mix of original series, classic films, and a live event to cap it all off.

I’m excited to dive into the variety this month. Whether you’re into star-studded dramas or animated adventures, Netflix has you covered. Let’s break down some of the biggest titles hitting the platform.

‘The Four Seasons’ (May 1)

This new comedy series, co-created by Tina Fey, reimagines the 1981 film. It stars Fey, Steve Carell, Colman Domingo, Will Forte, Kerri Kenney-Silver, and Marco Calvani as three couples whose yearly vacations get messy when one pair splits up. The show explores friendship and love with sharp humor.

Dropping on May 1, ‘The Four Seasons’ promises laughs and heart. The stacked cast brings chemistry to this tale of long-time friends navigating change.

Vince Vaughn wrangling grandmas to start an Italian restaurant; the latest volume of animated stories about love, death and robots; a slick new limited series starring Oscar-winner Julianne Moore; the final season of Netflix’s longest-running adult animated show; another installment in the popular Fear Street film franchise; and live-stream of Netflix’s hotly anticipated global pop culture and fan event are some of the highlights among the new films and series hitting Netflix in May.

Vince Vaughn and Susan Sarandon headline Nonnas, one of Netflix’s big feature releases in May. The Dear Evan Hansen and The Perks of Being a Wallflower filmmaker Stephen Chbosky directed the fact-based comedy feature that begins streaming May 9, and tells the story of Joe Scaravella, who decides to alter his life path by starting an Italian restaurant that hires Italian grandmothers, aka “nonnas,” as the chefs. The story is based on the real-life Scaravella,...

Horror fans have been missing a straight-up '80s slasher, and Netflix is here to deliver. When the hit Fear Street trilogy, based on R.L. Stine's young adult horror series of the same name, concluded in 2021, horror fans were left wondering if they'd ever see the whimsical yet terrifying work of Stine on screen again. The three films starring Kiana Madeira and Stranger Things' Sadie Sink were each massive hits, so, of course, Netflix couldn't leave Fear Street behind and began working on the upcoming film Prom Queen, which is releasing just in time for prom season on May 23. After a couple of tantalizing promo images and a promising R rating announcement, the first trailer for the return to Shadyside is here and, boy, does it deliver.

The premise is straightforward and classically Stine: Prom Queen candidates go missing leading up to the big night. However, this is no young adult scary movie,...

Get ready to travel back to Shadyside in the latest installment in Netflix’s Fear Street series! This time, director Matt Palmer and co-writer Donald Mcleary are tackling R.L. Stine’s iconic Prom Queen. And if the new trailer is any indicator, they’re ready to spill blood, and plenty of it.

Read the full synopsis:

In this next installment of the blood-soaked Fear Street franchise, prom season at Shadyside High is underway, and the school’s wolfpack of It Girls is busy with its usual sweet and vicious campaigns for the crown. But when a gutsy outsider puts herself in the running, and the other girls start mysteriously disappearing, the class of ’88 is suddenly in for one hell of a prom night.

Watch the official trailer below:

Leigh Janiak directed the original Fear Street trilogy, which made a massive splash in July 2021 when Netflix made it a month-long event.

"This is a very special night - and someone is ruining it!" Ha. Netflix has launched the main official trailer for Fear Street: Prom Queen - the next offering in this horror franchise that kicked off with a back-to-back trilogy in 2021. This is the fourth installment so far - it is originally adapted from R. L. Stine's horror books, beginning the interconnected Fear Street Part One: 1994, Fear Street Part Two: 1978, Fear Street Part Three: 1666. They all debuted in the summer of 2021, so we've been waiting for a follow-up for 4 years. In this new Fear Street movie, prom season at Shadyside High is underway and the school's It Girls are busy with campaigns for the crown. When an outsider puts herself in the running, then girls star disappearing, the class of '88 is in for one hell of a prom night. Starring India Fowler, Suzanna Son, Fina Strazza, Chris Klein,...

R. L. Stine is one of the most prolific and popular horror authors of all time. His work is marked by two major horror series – Goosebumps and Fear Street – the second of which is of interest to us in this report.

Namely, we know that Netflix recently revived the Fear Street movie franchise with three solid works, but it has been a while since a new project was released. But, it is coming out soon and Netflix is doing great work in preparing us for the premiere.

The streaming giant has just released the full proper trailer for Fear Street: Prom Queen, which is coming out on May 23, 2025, and we are going to show it to you here on ComicBasics!

Related: R.L. Stine Teases Three New ‘Fear Street’ Movies Coming Our Way!

Before we continue, here is the trailer:

The slasher will see India Fowler (The Agency) appear as Lori Granger,...

Netflix has released the official trailer and poster for the upcoming slasher film Fear Street: Prom Queen, which will begin streaming on May 23, 2025. Directed by Matt Palmer, Prom Queen is the fourth installment in the Fear Street film series.

Based on R. L. Stine’s horror book series, the new movie is produced by Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, and Kori Adelson for Chernin Entertainment. Yvonne Bernard, Joan Waricha, and Jane Stine are the executive producers.

“We’re back in Shadyside and the year is 1988,” director and co-writer Matt Palmer told the Netflix blog Tudum. “With Senior Prom just two days away, the race for prom queen is already heating up, but when somebody starts slaughtering the prom queen candidates, all hell is set to break loose.

“Think classic 80s slasher and all the fun that entails, but with compelling characters, needle drops, dancing, and a whole lot more!”

Welcome back to Shadyside.

Fear Street: Prom Queen, the continuation of the Fear Street film franchise that began with the release of the trilogy of Fear Street Part One: 1994, Fear Street Part Two: 1978, and Fear Street Part Three: 1666 on the Netflix streaming service back in the summer of 2021, made its way through production last year, and recently it was announced that the new film will be available to watch on Netflix as of May 23rd. With that date right around the corner, a full trailer for the film has dropped online and can be seen in the embed above!

Author R.L. Stine has written over 100 books that have been published under the various Fear Street banners. While the initial trilogy of films wasn’t directly based on any specific Fear Street book, the new movie will be telling a version of the story Stine crafted for his 1992 book The Prom Queen. Here’s the description: A spring night…...