Fear Street Trilogy (2021)
Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2021 9:51 pm
A small town is cursed, while its neighboring town is a utopia.
After the latest violent acts a vigil is held and the utopia people are disrespectful. This leads to a series of events that puts a group of teens in harm's way.
This is a horror movie but played like a teen romcom...kinda? The tone was odd. Sometimes like an episode of iCarly, sometimes serious. Very strange.
I was definitely bored at moments, but entertained during others.
I'll reserve total judgement until I get through the next two chapters.
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Chapter two was the best chapter. It was also the best horror film.
It gave me good flashbacks of Friday the 13th as it was set at a summer camp.
It also advanced the story in a strong way and was pretty fast paced.
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Chapter three was a good follow up, but they amped the sexual content. One guy sporting a visible boner and a girl goes down on another girl. It was an odd tonal shift. Not saying the movie was PG until this, but the whole trilogy is definitely PG-13 or light R.
The overall story was wrapped up nicely and logically for what it was, but they did a good job extending it through three movies without it getting totally boring.
I will say a huge flaw was that a few of the killers (yes killers) did not get time to shine and they might have been the creepiest.
Oh, and Chapter three is when I realized many of the same actors were in every chapter. I don't know how I missed that. Seriously. I don't know if they were done up in such a good way or that I just wasn't paying attention. That really added to the overall story too.
The credits scene is also exactly what you expect.
Overall, this was a nice little trilogy. I've seen much, much worse Netflix originals.
After the latest violent acts a vigil is held and the utopia people are disrespectful. This leads to a series of events that puts a group of teens in harm's way.
This is a horror movie but played like a teen romcom...kinda? The tone was odd. Sometimes like an episode of iCarly, sometimes serious. Very strange.
I was definitely bored at moments, but entertained during others.
I'll reserve total judgement until I get through the next two chapters.
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Chapter two was the best chapter. It was also the best horror film.
It gave me good flashbacks of Friday the 13th as it was set at a summer camp.
It also advanced the story in a strong way and was pretty fast paced.
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Chapter three was a good follow up, but they amped the sexual content. One guy sporting a visible boner and a girl goes down on another girl. It was an odd tonal shift. Not saying the movie was PG until this, but the whole trilogy is definitely PG-13 or light R.
The overall story was wrapped up nicely and logically for what it was, but they did a good job extending it through three movies without it getting totally boring.
I will say a huge flaw was that a few of the killers (yes killers) did not get time to shine and they might have been the creepiest.
Oh, and Chapter three is when I realized many of the same actors were in every chapter. I don't know how I missed that. Seriously. I don't know if they were done up in such a good way or that I just wasn't paying attention. That really added to the overall story too.
The credits scene is also exactly what you expect.
Overall, this was a nice little trilogy. I've seen much, much worse Netflix originals.