It's been a truly chilling summer of fear,
thanks to Fear Street.
Go, go, go! Go!
Now you've had a chance to watch all three films,
let's have a look
at some of the most searched questions about the trilogy.
No need to be afraid
of stumbling upon the Shadyside curse yourselves,
Fear Street is absolutely not based on a true story.
The films are adapted
from a teenage horror fiction series
by R.L. Stine,
the bulk of which were released throughout the 90s.
In fact, watch the opening scene carefully
and you can see books by Robert Lawrence on display
with titles taken directly from the book series.
Now, the books pop up a few times in the series,
like when Heather says one of the titles
is her favourite.
Fantastic choice. I love this one.
Or, right at the end of the last film,
when Deena uses Fear Street books taped to her body
as a shield against a knife.
If you recognise the author's name,
it's for a good reason.
R.L. Stine also wrote the hugely popular
Goosebumps series.
The characters in Fear Street
were a little older than those in Goosebumps,
and the deaths in the series, a lot gorier.
Like the films, familiar faces would often pop up
in different stories.
The books regularly hit
the bestseller list over the years,
selling millions of copies around the world.
After a brief hiatus,
Stine revived the book series in 2014.
Director Leigh Janiak told Den of Geek
that rather than taking on specific plot points
from the books in the series,
they aimed to stay true to the spirit of the books.
The time-jumping is reminiscent
of the Fear Street Saga,
a trilogy within the series
which was also told across different times
and generations.
The first film is set in the 90s
as that's when the books were initially released,
but also because they could make a ton of references
to 90s slasher films,
like the spooky phone calls and skull masks
reminiscent of classic 90s horror Scream.
So, who stars in Fear Street?
You might recognise central character Deena,
played by Kiana Madeira from Netflix's Trinkets.
Olivia Scott Welch,
who's appeared in Panic and Unbelievable plays Sam.
Benjamin Christopher Flores Jr.,
a.k.a. rapper Lil P-Nut plays Josh.
Fear Street Part One's comic relief, Simon,
is played by Fred Hechinger,
who you can also see in The Woman in the Window
and Bo Burnham's Eighth Grade.
Julia Rehwald makes her feature film debut as Kate.
Sadie Sink of Stranger Things fame
and Emily Rudd from Electric Dreams
play the Berman sisters.
With Community and Love star Gillian Jacobs
playing the older Ziggy Berman.
And of course, Maya Hawke, also of Stranger Things,
opens the trilogy
with her Drew Barrymore in Scream moment
at the beginning of the first film.
Most of Fear Street was filmed
in and around Atlanta, Georgia.
The mall where everything kicks off
is at Decatur's North DeKalb Mall,
which has become a hotspot for filmmakers
as most of the shops inside have closed.
There's a big horror connection
in one of the locations
for Fear Street Part Two: 1978.
Camp Daniel Morgan in Hard Labor Creek State Park
is not only known as one of Georgia's
most haunted camps,
it was also used for Camp Crystal Lake
in Friday the 13th VI: Jason Lives.
So if you were wondering
why it looked hauntingly familiar,
there's your answer.
Who is Sarah Fier?
Throughout Fear Street One and Two,
we believe Sarah Fier is the witch
at the heart of the curse,
who cut off her hand and made a deal with the devil.
But in Part Three, we learn she was framed,
which leaves us with another question.
Who is the bad guy in Fear Street?
Spoilers ahead here,
but you'll know the answer to this one already
if you've watched all three films.
After spending most of the plot believing
Sarah Fier is behind the Shadyside curse,
Deena and her friends eventually find out
it's actually the Goode family
behind the bloody murders in the town.
Their ancestor, Solomon Goode,
made a deal with the devil to ensure Sunnyside
stayed affluent and peaceful.
But that deal comes at a high cost.
Goode gives a name to the devil.
Ryan Torres.
The devil takes over that person.
Then that person kills and murders…
and the devil feeds on this blood
of dead Shadysiders.
Sarah Fier, it turns out,
discovered what Goode had done,
losing her hand while trying to escape.
He eventually frames her as a witch,
and Sarah, wanting to save her secret lover Hannah,
makes a fake confession before being hanged.
Deena sees all this
when she reunites Sarah's severed hand with her body
and discovers the truth.
Goode is evil.
Who dies in Fear Street?
Spoiler alert. A lot of people die.
This is a horror slasher series, after all.
In Fear Street One, we say goodbye to Heather,
Peter, Nurse Beddy, Kate and Simon.
Technically, Sam also dies before
being resuscitated by Deena.
In Part Two, possessed camp killer Tommy
kills a whole host of the kids staying at the camp…
Counsellor Tommy?
…including stoner Arnie and his girlfriend Alice,
as well as camp counsellors Joan and Gary.
Cindy and Ziggy are also attacked
by formally-possessed killers.
Only Ziggy survives after being resuscitated by Nick.
Part Three reveals that many of the town's children
were killed by the possessed pastor.
The blame was pinned on Sarah Fier,
who set a curse on the Goode family before her death.
I will never let you go.
In the final showdown at the Shadyside Mall,
Sheriff Nick Goode is brought down,
bringing the curse to an end.
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