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adamwatchesmovies · 3 years

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Fear Street Part Two: 1978 (2021)

Fear Street Part Two: 1978 is better than its predecessor. While the characters may seem just as unlikeable at first, you get to know and understand them as time passes. This being the middle of a trilogy means you know how it’ll end but a few curveballs your way keep you guessing. Even if you only felt so-so about Part One, this works as a fun slasher film with a lemon-lime twist.

In 1994, Deena (Kiana Madeira) and Josh Johnson (Benjamin Flores Jr.) ask C. Berman (Gillian Jacobs) for help. She was the only survivor of the massacre at Camp Nightwing on July 19, 1978. What happened that night is the key to saving a now-possessed Sam (Olivia Scott Welch) from the sinister force that lingers over Shadyside.

If you want gore, this movie’s got it. The deaths are brutal and shocking, which makes you worried for the characters who prove themselves to be more realistic than you expected at first. You think Alice (Ryan Simpkins) and her boyfriend Arnie (Sam Brooks) are just there to give the movie an R-Rating and stumble into a situation that’ll get both their heads cut off but they’re quite sympathetic once you get to know them. Their relationship tells volumes about what Shadyside is like, as does the way Cindy (Emily Rudd) and her sister Ziggy (Sadie Sink) deal with their present and future in the town.

Some of the characters are rather broad. More than once, Camp Nightwing is a place where bullies can run around doing whatever they want. Yeah, the camp counselors are too busy having sex and taking drugs to deal with those snot-nosed kids but even so, certain acts of vandalism would have to be dealt with if they expect to get paid! Interwoven with the mandatory scenario which sees campers isolated, then chopped to bits is a continuation of the mystery introduced in 1994. We're getting closer to some concrete answers; you can feel it.

I have to criticize the film’s twist ending. It’s a surprise revelation about the present-day C. Berman that makes no sense, whatsoever and is a sloppy mark on an otherwise well-made horror movie. There are several places where the film might’ve been improved but you overlook them because the characters grow on you, and answers (as well as more questions) begin trickling in satisfyingly. The killers and history of the town are sadistically fun to discover, the performances quite good, the scares genuine, and the characters are great. I’ll even forgive the movie cheating us out of the expected female nudity (seriously, two sex scenes and we don’t see anything?) because it doubles down on the loving shots of the male form.

Fear Street Part II: 1978 does not supplant the best slasher films from the genre’s golden age but it offers up some nice juicy bits to munch onto. The kills might not be as varied as you’d like but instead, they’re more frightening and disturbing than expected. It now comes down to chapter three to bring it back home, fill in the leaks we’ve spotted here and there, and make this a solid trilogy - or just an ambitious effort that didn’t quite pan out. (July 17, 2021)

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