The first trailer for Netflix's Fear Street trilogy has just dropped and it is as spooky as ever. Netflix is planning to evoke the most terrifying summer yet, complete with hellfire and the devil’s return. The Fear Street Trilogy has been adapted from R.L. Stine’s classic horror novels, but the tone has most definitely been adjusted and is much darker. After all, Stine’s book series was meant for grade school children given its PG content.
Netflix is planning to release the Fear Street trilogy consecutively throughout the month of July. The trilogy itself takes place in a haunted town that will be revisited throughout decades of stillness in between. The trailer shows clips of the teenagers flipping through old newspaper headlines and digging up the bones of the past. Plus, the preview embodies some of Stine’s influential horror style.
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In the Fear Street trailer, the phone rings endlessly and a demonic voice is on the other line. Scenes of a slasher and piles of blood fill the screen while a normally happy song becomes suddenly creepy while playing in the background at a summer camp. The synopsis of the film that Netflix released states, “In 1994, a group of teenagers discovers the terrifying events that have haunted their town for generations may all be connected - and that they may be the next targets. The trilogy follows the nightmare through Shadyside’s sinister history.” Netflix is known for giving fans the entirety of the season/show that they drop all at once, feeding into binging culture.
The writer and director of the Fear Street trilogy, Leigh Janiak, has some big ground to cover since Stine wrote 52 books that were set in Shadyside alone. The vice president of Netflix, Lisa Nishimura previously stated that the company wanted to release the Fear Street trilogy over three weeks so that audiences could make the films a part of the pop culture conversation, a method Disney Plus employed for its own original shows such as Marvel Studios' WandaVision.
Janiak stated that she wanted to be able to go deep into each character’s backstory and emphasize the group’s outsider status. Reality seems to be much scarier these days than a monster hiding under the bed and Janiak has also revealed she drew a lot from her childhood throughout the filming process, saying living as a teenage girl in this world is itself dangerous.
Stine, who is also known for his Goosebumps books, has noted the Fear Street resonated with readers from all over the world because people often share the same fears. According to Stine, those fears include the dark, the prospect of someone hiding in your closet, and the kind of terror that comes with being in a strange place.
Fear Street: Part 1 will be available for streaming on July 2, part two on July 9th, and the final part on July 16th, 2021.
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