Netflix has decreed that it is nearly time to party like it’s 1988. The streamer’s fruitful deal with Goosebumps and Fear Street author R.L. Stine is heating up as the fourth Fear Street film approaches its long-awaited release. While the original trilogy of teen horror movies did not adapt specific titles from Stine’s famous young adult book series, the fourth installment will be directly adapting the 15th Fear Street novel, The Prom Queen. Netflix has released a new teaser for Fear Street: Prom Queen, which comes with an official release date of May 23. Just in time for prom season!
Directed by Matt Palmer, the R-rated horror movie will likely follow in the footsteps of the three prior films, which all heightened the violence and gore of the spooky stories, taking the books originally made for teens and transforming them into modern horror movies fit for an adult audience. If you’ve never seen or read any of Stine’s teen horror stories, don’t worry. Just like the beloved Goosebumps books, the Fear Street series does not have a strict chronological order, making it ripe for adaptation by directors who like to do things their own way.
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While it’s still unclear if the fourth film will connect at all to the first three films, which were all directed by Leigh Janiak, writers Palmer and Donald Mcleary might have something completely different in store for Fear Street: Prom Queen. With three more Fear Street films confirmed to be in the production pipeline, it seems like Netflix is doing what they do best and taking full advantage of Stine’s bountiful I.P. And based on the bloody disco ball of horror in the Prom Queen teaser, fans can expect more of the iconic scares that made the Fear Street stories a hit with teens and adults. Check out the new date announcement teaser below.
R.L. Stine Really Knows How To Scare
It’s always nice to be able to confidently state that Netflix is doing a good job with something, and when it comes to theFear Street movies, the streamer has really been knocking it out of the park. Striking a deal with one of the best-selling horror authors of all time also didn’t hurt their chances of making a killer horror film franchise.
The official logline for Fear Street: Prom Queen reads similarly to that of its source material:
Welcome back to Shadyside. In this next installment of the blood-soaked Fear Street franchise, prom season at Shadyside High is underway and the school’s wolfpack of It Girls is busy with its usual sweet and vicious campaigns for the crown. But when a gutsy outsider puts herself in the running, and the other girls start mysteriously disappearing, the class of ’88 is suddenly in for one hell of a prom night.
To put the cherry on top of an already enticing sundae, Fear Street: Prom Queen has a long list of talented actors in its cast, including India Fowler, Suzanna Son, Fina Strazza, Chris Klein, David Iacono, Ella Rubin, Ariana Greenblatt, Lili Taylor, and Katherine Waterson, to list a few. May 23 is going to be a wild night in Shadyside.
Fear Street: Prom Queen
- Director
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Matt Palmer
- Writers
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Donald McLeary
- Producers
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Jane Stine, Jenno Topping, Joan Waricha, Yvonne Bernard, Peter Chernin
This story originally appeared on Movieweb
