
Fear Street: 1994
3.1
(23.1K)
Horror
Mystery
2021
108 min
R
After a series of brutal slayings, a teen and her friends take on an evil force that's plagued their notorious town for centuries.
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"4.5/5 stars ☆
“Fear Street Part One: 1994” gets off to an immersive, action-packed start with a girl who works at a bookstore getting the shock of her life when she becomes the real-life target of an attack that might usually only happen in the books she sells. There is officially a ruthless killer on the loose, but what lies behind this particular killer is a far more venomous history spanning centuries. Gruesome violence and bloodshed itself, however, is not new to Shadyside, the town in question where this narrative takes place, jarring the senses as strongly as if on a rising thrill ride. Each feeling is heightened and vividly felt as the landscape, dark, gritty, and foreboding, passes by, reminding each character of the suffocating feeling of their own relentless entrapment. They feel doomed to repeat a tragic cycle of history and never make it anywhere or be anything, but little do many of the residents know that the town has long been cursed and there is a reason for the zinging onslaught of antics, reckless violence, and heart-shattering tragedy past just being struck with a hand of bad luck.
As the tale continues, we find ourselves in the town over called Sunnyvale and on the surface it is everything Shadyside is not: luxurious, relatively crime-free, and filled with the warmness of a supple sunlight that shields all of its residents from the perceived danger of Shadyside. However, there is a bitter rivalry between the two towns that continues to persist.
It becomes up to Deena and her friends to try to save their town from crumbling into the darkness of its own rubble. Their journey is filled with a lot of heart along the way and rediscovery of what it means to love and develop a deeper kinship through traumatic times or shared circumstances that can never be forgotten. It is filled with ambient nostalgia for times past in the 90s and a tender look, amidst all the gore, at what lengths we will go to in order to fight for what’s right. "