Now, the franchise is moving on with a fresh story in Fear Street: Prom Queen, a standalone fourth installment. It’s an 1980s-soaked teen slasher that, unfortunately, doesn’t quite live up to ...

When critiquing a movie – not a film, a movie – like Fear Street: Prom Queen, it helps to approach it with a generous spirit. Shallow characters, predictable storylines, wooden performances ...

Fear Street Prom Queen is the latest installment of the Fear Street franchise on Netflix. This adaptation continues R.L. Stine’s fan-favorite book series with director Matt Palmer at the helm.

Fear Street: Prom Queen has become the most-watched movie on Netflix worldwide, continuing the success of the hit horror trilogy from 2021. The sequel takes us back to Shadyside, this time in 1988 ...

Fear Street: Prom Queen breaks from the original trilogy though by telling a standalone story. For Prom Queen writer and director Matt Palmer, that division brings to mind another horror forerunner.

Instead of harkening back to, for example, slasher movies from the 1980s, “Fear Street: Prom Queen” harkens back to [checks notes] slasher movies from the 1980s. But wait! This time it’s ...

The streamer's new stab at R.L. Stine’s YA series — its first since the high-profile 2021 trilogy — is comparatively routine, pitting mean girls and nice nerds against a masked maniac.

Set in 1988, Fear Street: Prom Queen takes fans back to Shadyside, a city marked by a history of violence and structural inequality, living in the shadow of the prosperous Sunnyvale. While the ...

Right before the first kill of Fear Street: Prom Queen, viewers get a montage of sounds and images appropriate to the movie’s 1988 setting. Accompanied by Billy Idol’s “White Wedding,” we ...