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I think they should have just made an anthology series.

I loved this movie, I don’t get why people are hating on it so much but then I feel that modern day. Social media has turned everybody into critics and they seem to just look for negatives.

Great review bro. You are 100% spot on. I agree it wasn't breaking any new ground but it was fun for what it was. I think people are being a little too harsh on this movie if I'm being honest

I think it is absolutely impossible to capture the 80s aura in movies. I was a teen in the 80s and it is very difficult to replicate especially in this socially fragile age.

I enjoyed the previous three installments, but this one was a disappointment. It was pretty bad, actually. For one thing, it upped the cheese factor quite considerably. There was too much winking at the audience. As much as they restrained themselves from delving into some of the clichés, they went heavy into other clichés. Basically, it reeked of trying too hard to feel like an 80s horror comedy, but somehow without putting much real effort into it. A lot of the dialogue was not how we spoke back in the 80s. And the look of it just felt like current times with little splashes and flourishes of 80s.

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I loved the Fear Street trilogy. I haven't watched this new one because I cancelled all my streaming apps.
I hope these come out physically.

I was around in the 80s. Especially 1988. We don't make the right type of Aquanet anymore to make any of this feel authentic. I loved the soundtrack, but everything else felt like a Gen z cosplay. Didn't hate the movie but it did have the worst "dance battle" I think I have ever seen. We never did that in the 80s. I know Breakin 2 Electric Boogaloo made it seem that dance battles were a way of life in the 80s, but alas the answer is No.

People are really overreacting to this, it was fine and felt like a standard 80s slasher

As a former prom attendee, I would rather watch “Tommy Knockers ✊🏽”

This movie doesn’t reinvent the wheel by any means, but I wasn’t expecting it to. It’s an above average horror film for me. I don’t fully get the immense hate, yet adoration for the original trilogy many viewers are expressing. I guess the lack of lore tie-in bothered fans.

if they were really going for authentic 80s slasher, they should have used mid twenty somethings. More often than not the actors in those old slashers always leaned on the older side, and these new ones always use children. To your point, 80s movies also felt grittier, which gave them more of a sense of danger. These movies all feel very safe, and commercially friendly.

It's not anything like the book it's based on and it's barely tied to the trilogy that came before it. Not to mention the plot was quite obvious midway through and the killer was somehow so close to the kills without being seen or heard. The stoner chick literally heard noise yet didn't turn around at all or try to run away? Just let herself be killed. I think it was so dumb and poorly written and alot of people are drinking mass amounts of copium. If this was a stand alone prom slasher film sure it would be considered decent however it made itself a point to be a fear street novel and to tied into the the previous films but they didn't do any of the actual leg work of making it work.

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Talking about dialogue and cinematography and characters isn’t cliche lol. What else would you talk about in a review?

I liked the movie I think the book was better though

I watched The Fear Street movies when they came out and didn't like any of them. It just annoyed me that it wanted to be 90s for the 1st one and 70s for the 2nd. Other than playing famous songs from those eras, it didn't at all feel like the 90s or the 70s. It felt like any current day movie or show.

It's worth noting that Netflix is now catering to content that can be watched as "background noise/viewing" (ie: you don't have to watch closely; you can scroll through your phone, do the dishes, etc.) as reported by credible outlets like n+1 and The Guardian amongst others. I think this may be leading to cookie cutter-style films that aren't resonating with folks.

I did not mind this movie at all I kind of thought it was one of the best out of the four I like to turn on popcorn movies that are slasher I don't have to think too much I liked it a lot I don't get the hate.

You hit on what I say all the time...people have the neon imagination of the 80s (a stereotype image) - I was there, it wasn't like that 24/7 lol...it was much more wood paneling, worn out left over 70s shag carpet and appliances, dukes of hazard tv trays, metal lunchboxes, an afghan on the flowered couch, star wars glasses, and Saturday morning cartoons 😂...
I did a movie you'd like, with Bill Moseley, set in 1979 about a southern rock band and I actually caught some grief from some younger critics because it "wasn't 70s enough" - in other words, they were looking for stereotype image rather than real...
I want to do 1 more horror movie set in the 80s and make it look like the real 80s and a real 80s slasher/creature feature

I enjoyed the movie for what It is. Good review

like why can’t it just be a turn ya brain off ode to 80s slasher is it gonna be the best movie this year nah but it was entertaining enough .

I didn’t seem to really understand how off, unrealistic and sensationalized these depictions of those decades were, until popular culture eventually started to apply the same treatment to the era I grew up in…

I haven't seen the movie yet, so now my interest is piqued. But that year book photo page would be like 6th graders back then. Everyone looked 10-20 years older than now. Tons of chain smokers, all the furniture in the 80's was old 60's and 70's stuff. People only ate like 2 slices of pizza at a time. Wild.

I liked the movie better than the trilogy from 2021, I didn't like those at all. However, it felt more like another remake of PROM NIGHT than an adaptation of the book on which this movie is based. The only things they got right from the book was the title, the year, and that there's a killer.

Being an 80s kid I don't remember things looking like they did in the film. The house I grew up in had wood paneling and the furniture was floral with couch coverings. Many comic book shops, mom and pop movie theaters and stores, and video stores. I think for myself the look of the houses in Stranger Things is how they looked, but life was kinda like the tv show Goldbergs. It was definitely a better time.

Just finished watching it. I agree that we are probably getting burned out on the cliche’ 80’s throwbacks. I thought it was a fun little throwaway movie, though. They did a 90’s, 70’s, and now 80’s Fear Street movie, so at least they changed it up. I’d like to see one set in the 50’s next.

I think people are burnt out on these who done it films. The Scream formula if you will. I mean we just had the Scream 5 and 6, Heart Eyes, Clown in a Cornfield, and now this film. I think many people are sick of that same old tired formula. There is just no originality to Slasher movies anymore.

My only complaint was that they were watching Phantasm 2 during prom season, that film didn’t come out till July 😂

Prom Queen was filmed in my home town (Hamilton Ontario, Canada) Right across the street at the old Delta High School which has been closed down for a decade now.

One day on my way home from work I was wearing my Phantasm t-shirt from Cavity Colors. And the street I walk down is Ottawa Street and there is an old theater "Avon" it's been shutdown since the Early 90s. Well on that day they had the theater done up Marque lights on and Phantasm 2 on the marque with posters on the windows the whoke 9 Yards. I says to the camera guys "Hey where can I buy a ticket (Jokingly) the guy was blown away I had a shirt on for the Movie they were pretending the theater was showing. The Camera guy had never seen any of thr Phantasm movies he told me... I hope he has by now.

80s fatigue is a real thing. I don’t see a problem with them making it modern day you’re allowed to like vintage 80s stuff so having the horror fan character would’ve still made sense

As someone who lived in the 80s, born in 1977, you need to take a step back and stop making claims and asserting yourself as an expert in things you do not know about because you never had that experience yourself. The bigger point is you speak for everyone ("everyone is burnt out on it"), but the truth is YOU are burn out. Quit generalizing your opinions on everyone else. No movie is truly authentic cause at the end of the day, they are fictional creations from one's imagination. Just like dreams are not reality, but have a touch of it, the same idea applies with films. If you want more reality, they make documentaries. Even those movies made in the 80s exist in worlds that were never true to real life. I am not burnt out on anything because I know that these are all fictional. However, I am highly anticipating Stranger Things. Is it 100% true to the 80s? No. But, I don't really care. It is fiction. The 80s for me holds little nostalgia. I was bullied in elementary school and did not really enjoy that experience except when I was home with my family. You spent more time talking about other films who use different times than reviewing this film. Obviously you have some hang up on media that does not exist in 2025 as a time frame. OR, and the more likely reason, you need to complain about something, so you contrive this with click bait titles in order engender responses like the one I am giving you. I have seen this quite often with your videos of late. Even Brian Yuzna told you to step back and divorce yourself as a fan and see reality that Renanimator is an inherently better film than Bride.

I liked this movie up until the end. I absolutely hate when slasher movies turn into Scream clones.

It’s just cringe millennial writing idolizing the 80s that they never lived 🤷‍♂️

I watched it and I agree, it wasn't as good as i was hoping, it did have some cool effects and kills, I really enjoyed the first series. 💪🤓🍿 I will give it a rewatch and I hope I enjoy it more than my first watch.

The friend was my favorite character. I gave this about a 3/5. Nothing great but nothing terrible, I had fun with it. People probably walked in with too high expectations, which I don't understand because these are basically CW teen horror flicks. You should know the quality to expect going in and I've seen way worse. 1978 is still my favorite, but this is next up.

I don't think they really can recreate the 80s, especially 80s (and 70s) NYC, LA, Chicago, or Miami. You can try, but not in these types of movies. The target demo is way too young to justify giving the reality of what it was really like. I was a kid in the 70s, teen in the 80s. It was a lot DARKER than I even like to admit. I enjoyed my life in the 70s but there was so much going on. I think I look at it more lovingly because I feel like it made me who I am. 80s were about colors and excess. There was a bad political, socio-economic reality to it - a lot of drugs, crime, gangs, threats of war. It just had such an amazing soundtrack musically as a decade and the movies were gritty and crazy and gory and awesome. It is just not something you can replicate now, though a few come close. Just for adults.

The only retro-time period horror film/show set in the 80's that I can think of that actually captured that time period pretty well was Monster House of all things (a cgi animated movie). A lot of other movies seem to fall into the "hey remember this thing?" nostalgia bait or lean into the neons that were more so present at from '87-92 (while missing the fluorescents also present in some lighting in the earlier parts of the 80's).
People forget that most decades have three parts, the first part feels like a partial continuation of the end of the previous decade, then you have the middle that feels only rooted in the decade at hand, then the end of the decade which then bleeds into the next decade. A lot of these retro-time period films tend to see the entire decade as one blob instead of acknowledging that the decade evolves and changes with time.

Yea the 80s thing is beat down

Its a super fun movie! I much prefer this to the trilogy cause this one was actually fun

I thought it was horrible… I love 80s style films… my problem was the acting and characters were horrible…. It didn’t feel like authentic 80s Vibe… the movie was just boring

We absolutely did not like this movie and were let down given how much better the first 3 Fear Street movies were. There was a lot of dialogue that just did not make sense surrounding the whole plot.

I might be one of the only ones who didn't enjoy the original trilogy. I'd love to read the books. Firat, they couldn't decide what they wanted to be. The tone constantly fluctuates. Second, I didn't enjoy the woke. I didn't enjoy changing the plot to make it so the whole thing started because someone couldn't handle lesbians. I'm still curious about seeing this one.

I think the problem is I’m getting a little tired of the non supernatural killer. I mean it’s been so long since we’ve had the supernatural slasher. Think about it

Heart Eyes, Scream, Thanksgiving, We are getting a new I Know What You Did Last Summer, these Fear Street films, they are all just a person or two people behind a mask. I like these movies still but the scales are so unevenly tipped in the slasher genre and we hardly get supernatural slashers. Which is why Terrifier and In A Violent Nature I think are hitting such a strong chord with a certain audience because there is just so little in the ways of supernatural slasher films in this current era.

80s fizzled cuz of stranger things

Love this movie. Got a chance to see it on the big screen last night. I think a film like this and a lot of horror, needs that big screen and booming audio for it to be effective. Loved how it referenced other than the typical cliches of the 80’s

I haven't watched any of the Fear Street flicks yet, but it's interesting that you never even mention this; it seems from the hundreds of comments I've seen online that the majority audience for these films are young women, and their number one complaint about the new movie is the lack of any lesbian stuff compared to the old trilogy!?

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