So the first entry in the Fear Street Trilogy on Netflix has just been released.
With Fear Street Part 1: 1994, there's a lot to unpack surrounding the plot, the ending,
the brief post-credit scene and what we could see in Part 2 and 3.
I'm going to be explaining the plot and ending for Fear Street Part 1, in the aim to help
you guys gather a greater sense of what happened and what could be seen in the next 2 films.
This analysis will also contain spoilers, so if you do happen to be someone who hasn't
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But without further ado, let's dive into Fear Street Part
1 explained.
So the Fear Street trilogy on Netflix is off to a bloody start as a group of teens in 1994
have found themselves the latest target of a centuries-old curse.
Deena, played by Kiana Madeira, her on and off girlfriend
Sam, played by Olivia Welch, her brother Josh, played by Benjamin Flores Jr and two friends
Kate and Simon, are faced with a race against time in Fear Street Part 1, leading to a dramatic
climax and a huge cliffhanger.
This is just the beginning for Fear Street as the second movie, set in
1978, will be out next Friday.
But what do we already know about the curse that's haunted Shadyside and what can we expect
in Fear Street Part 2: 1978?
Well, I'm about to go into major spoilers for Part 1 to explain just that and what may
be unfolding as the trilogy progresses.
The movie opens with the latest massacre to hit Shadyside as the seemingly normal Ryan
Torres murders Maya Hawke's Heather at the Shadyside Mall, with the title sequence telling
us he killed seven others after he apparently snapped.
It's the latest in a long line of massacres in Shadyside that's included 12 being killed
at Camp Nightwing, which will be the focus of Part 2 set in 1978,
and even teenage killer Ruby Lane in 1965 and a deviant milkman who killed housewives
in 1950.
Shadysiders believe the killings are linked to the hanging of Sarah Fier as a witch in
1666, and some supernatural events start to take place with the undead characters that
do her deeds for her.
The undead characters come back to life in numerous parts of the film, like healing from
bullet wounds after bleeding black blood and reforming body parts after being blown up
by an explosion.
As the characters put it, Sarah Fier reaches from beyond the grave to make good men her
wicked slaves.
She'll take your blood, she'll take your head, she'll follow you until you're dead.
But the first third of the movie focuses on doing a good job of setting a nostalgic tone,
location and characters which we are going to follow in Part 1.
Members of Shadyside clash with residents of the egregiously
more affluent Sunnyvale during a memorial to the deaths of those at the Shadyside Mall.
There's a tense fallout between the Shadysiders and those on Sunnyvale and this all surrounds
the two main characters.
Sam is Deena's ex-girlfriend and Sunnyvale's newest cheerleader, having left
Shadyside behind in the wake of her parent's divorce.
And an occasional member of Shadyside's high school band, the outspoken and self-sufficient
Deena is the town's truest misfit.
Already dealing with the break-up and a grim future laid out by her alcoholic father, it
leads to Deena going to the memorial and giving back Sam's things, seeming to move on from
their previous time together.
But after more clashing between the two groups, in the immediate aftermath, the teenagers
find themselves drawn into a series of terrifying events.
During a chase on the highway, Deena causes a crash by chucking an object at the car chasing
them, which Sam was also in, and this is where things really begin.
Deena and her friends find themselves as the latest target of Sarah Fier when Sam gets
out of the crashed car and unwittingly bleeds from the nose on the skeleton of her grave.
But this time, it's not a person being possessed by Fier who's doing the killing, it's the
undead versions of past Shadyside killers, including the
mall killer Ryan Torres.
Some bonding then forms between our main characters as they begin to try and work out what is
actually going on.
Along with Deena and Sam, there is Deena's nerdy but tech-savvy and resourceful brother,
Josh.
Already ahead of his time regarding the internet, he proves a fount of knowledge regarding Shadyside's
dark past.
With a penchant for quoting cheat-codes for courage, we learn that he also harbours a
crush on Kate, setting up a potential love triangle to unfold in the film.
Head cheerleader, valedictorian, and much more besides, Kate
is the speechifying and de facto leader of Shadyside High and beyond.
Aspirational beyond the restraints of Shadyside, and unafraid to make the hard decisions, she
proves a fierce ally.
And then there's Simon, who is the group's unabashed goofball and Kate's best friend.
His larger-than-life traits, however, belies an impressive work ethic and courageous loyalty
to his friends and family.
After Deena and Josh go to Kate and Simon, following a
stalking by a familiar person in a skull mask, and this person appearing to hunt down certain
blood trails, it ultimately leads them back to Sam.
Deena goes to Sam thinking that her new boyfriend was the one creeping
them out in the mask, but once the skull mask person shockingly kills her boyfriend, they
are back on the run.
After some well-needed clarifications between Deena and
Sam, alongside Josh explaining the history of the Shadyside murders throughout the years,
they think that by putting Fier's grave back the way it was before Sam disturbed it, that
she would stop sending her henchmen after them.
Unfortunately for Sam, Fier's got a taste for her blood and she won't stop as 'it's
not like the movies', according to Deena.
Thinking they can kill the undead, the group head back to the school with the idea of luring
the killers into a bathroom with Sam's blood and then setting it on fire.
They manage to do just that, but the killers are of course undead, so they start to reassemble
themselves body part by body part.
It's Sam that Fier wants and she chooses to sacrifice herself to save Deena and the others.
However, just before they take her, Josh spots that back in the Camp
Nightwing massacre in 1978 that there was one survivor called C Berman.
Her heart had stopped, but then she was brought back to life and it seemed to free her of
the curse, so they save Sam in the nick of time and hatch
a new plan to kill her with a drug overdose and then revive her.
This idea stems from Simon, who at the start of the film tells Deena that his friend had
been brought back to life after a similar overdose.
It seems a bit over the top but for the tone of the film and the content of the characters
and themes at play, it also rather fitting at the same time.
But when we reach the final sequence at the local superstore, Josh, Kate and Simon keep
the killers distracted by luring them with Sam's blood, while Deena helps Sam with the
overdose.
They're interrupted before they finish though, but quick thinking from Deena leads her to
drown Sam in a nearby lobster tank.
However, Sam doesn't die in time to save Kate from being killed by a bread slicer and Simon
being axed in the head by another one of the undead, but it comes just in time to save
Josh, with the undead killer's vanishing once Sam has been killed.
In a clique scene, Deena brings Sam back to life using adrenaline pens that Simon had
explained using on his friend before.
Deena, Sam and Josh create a story to tell the police,
which only leads to Kate and Simon being blamed for their own deaths as just another Shadyside
tragedy.
But just when we thought it was all over, later that night, Deena receives a call from
C Berman, who didn't previously respond to the call that they gave her before saving
Sam, and gives them an ominous warning.
In typical Scream fashion, she says, "It's not over.
It's never over.
You haven't stopped her, you can't, because she makes the rules.
The witch will do whatever it takes, you're not safe.
She'll find a way and she'll come for you."
And that warning leads straight to Deena's once-again girlfriend, Sam.
We see Sam's name being scratched onto a wall of past killers in what looks like the witch's
resting place and realise that she's stabbed Deena, but not fatally.
Deena fights her off and ties up Sam with the phone cable as Josh comes out to see what's
happened.
The final moments of Fear Street Part 1 see Deena promise to get Sam back and free her
from Fier's possession.
Now, Deena and Josh must figure out what to do, and based on the small post-credit scene,
it looks like C. Berman, the one who called Deena before,
could have something to do with it.
Kiana Madeira, the actress of Deena, teased that the character is really determined in
the rest of the trilogy to do just that and this is just the beginning of her journey.
There is a lot that is going to happen and the length that Deena goes through to really
figure this out and help them is something that's going to be very interesting.
We already know that the sequel will show us what happened at Camp Nightwing in 1978
and exactly how C Berman survived.
Leigh Janiak, who directed and co-wrote all of the Fear
Street movies said that we will see the characters in 1994, trying to figure out what they miscalculated
that is making this still happen, and we see that story play out.
You get to live with C Berman in the 94 part of the second movie and one of the appealing
things of this trilogy is being able to see generational mistakes, and history repeating
itself, and how these characters could potentially atone for their past.
Or what they thought were their sins to atone for but weren't necessarily.
It's going to be intriguing to see what they do in Part 2, but based on the words of the
actor and director, I'm guessing we'll see a mix of the
1978 story and scenes with the 1994 C Berman.
We get a sense that the post-credits scene is setting that up with a potentially revealing
conversation between the older C Berman with Deena and Josh, so next week
will hopefully give us some great answers that build the anticipation for Part 3.
But that was my video explaining the plot and ending for Fear Street Part 1: 1994.
I thought this first entry in the Fear Trilogy was a great start, giving us a motley crew
and a nostalgic flick, with many Stranger Things and Scream comparisons.
Similar to how Netflix perfected the 80's in Stranger Things, Fear Street does similar
with the ‘90s and it will have almost every viewer
getting a brief flashback to slasher films of the past.
A few moments are slightly too on the nose, but in the end, Fear Street has
begun to weave a blood-splattered tapestry that is going to widen as we reach part 2
and 3.
Some of the scenarios may be a little barebones, and the two leading performances can become
a bit tiresome, but Fear Street delights in focusing on the 90s nostalgia and Saturday
night slasher.
Plus, the ending nicely sets up the next instalment, which will hopefully, be just as fun and narratively
interesting.
I'm giving Fear Street Part 1: 1994 an 8 out of 10.
I hope this did help some of you guys understand the events a bit better and I'm looking forward
to hearing what else you picked out, so don't forget to let me know down below in the comments
section.
I will also be doing a breakdown of Fear Street Part 2 when it releases
next Friday, so look out for whenever I post.
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