The second installment in director Leigh Janiak's Fear Street trilogy, Fear Street Part 2: 1978, is now available to watch on the Netflix streaming service. You can read The Iceman's review of Fear Street Part 1: 1994 at THIS LINK, and can read my review of 1978 over HERE. With the film ready and waiting to be clicked on at Netflix, we have one last piece of promotion to share: the clip embedded above shows a moment in which a Camp Nightwing camper played by Stranger Things' Sadie Sink is accused of being a witch by her peers. This trilogy is all about people carrying out murders while possessed by a witch, so maybe she is…
The Fear Street trilogy will end with the witch's origin story, Fear Street Part 3: 1666, which is coming to Netflix on July 16th.
Janiak shot all three Fear Street movies back-to-back-to-back. She also co-wrote all three films, crafting the story for part 1 with Kyle Killen and Phil Graziadei and part 2 with Graziadei and Zak Olkewicz. Janiak then wrote part 1 with Graziadei, part 2 with Olkewicz, and part 3 with Graziadei and Kate Trefry. Here's the synopsis:
In 1994, a group of teenagers discovers that the terrifying events that have haunted their town for generations may all be connected — and that they may be the next targets. Based on R.L. Stine’s best selling horror series, the trilogy follows the nightmare through Shadyside’s sinister history.
The synopsis for 1978 specifically goes like this:
Shadyside, 1978. School’s out for summer and the activities at Camp Nightwing are about to begin. But when another Shadysider is possessed with the urge to kill, the fun in the sun becomes a gruesome fight for survival.
1978 stars Sink, Emily Rudd, Ryan Simpkins, McCabe Slye, Ted Sutherland, Jordana Spiro, Gillian Jacobs, Kiana Madeira, Benjamin Flores Jr., Ashley Zukerman, Olivia Scott Welch, Chiara Aurelia, and Jordyn DiNatale.
The trilogy was produced by Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, and David Ready. Kori Adelson produced 1666 and executive produced the other two. Janiak executive produced the trilogy with Timothy M. Bourne, Yvonne M. Bernard, Joan Waricha, and Jane Stine.