FEAR STREET PART 2, 1978
US, 2021, 109 minutes, Colour.
Sadie Sink, Emily Rudd, Ryan Simpkins, McCabe Slye, Gillian Jacobs, Kiana Madeira, Benjamin Flores Jr, Olivia Scott Welch, Chiara Aurealia, Ted Sutherland.
Directed by Leigh Janiak.
The second part continues immediately from the events at the end of the first part, in 1994. Deena and Josh are investigating the history of Sarah fear, concerned about Sam and her being possessed. They contact C. Berman, the survivor of the massacre at the Nightwing Camp in 1978. She tells them then the story and most of the film is in flashback. By the end of the film, C.Berman is urging Deena and Josh to escape from the town, but Deena sees visions from the past.
The main part of the film is about the summer camp, younger students at the camp rather than those in such films as the Friday the 13th series. However, there are friendships, relationships, sexual behaviour… The focus is on the two sisters, Ziggy and Cindy. There is tension between the two but ultimately each trying to help the other. Very little attention is given to most of the subsidiary characters. However, one of the characters given attention is the rebellious Alice, who teams up with Cindy, finding the site of the 17th century village, of Sarah Fier, as well of the as the books about spells.
The other character is the young Nick Goode (Ted Sutherland), son of the mayor, who will grow up to be one of the police in Shadyside where most of the characters at the camp come from, rather than the rival Sunnyvale. There is also Tom Slater, friendly, involved in sexual activity, taken possession of an becoming the mass slayer (ultimately the bag over his head, reminiscent of Jason and Michael Myers, beating down and talk with an axe by Jack Nicholson in The Shining – and references to 1fierStephen King – and with a soundtrack resembling Carmina Burana).
There are some gory moments with the deaths, the death of Alice, the two sisters surrounded by possessed killers, both being hacked but one surviving. And telling the story in 1994.
