It feels as though it’s laid on pretty thick, but then again, if it serves to highlight the utter contempt of a wealthy community that has seemingly offered Shadyside up as a sacrificial lamb for their own prosperity, the point is well-taken. If there’s a weakness to this installment of Fear Street, it’s that this darkness is a little too overt, the Shadysiders perhaps too self-aware of their cursed upbringing, and the Sunnyvalers over-the-top in their cruelty to underprivileged neighbors. A bunch of horny teens are away from home, trapped in the woods with a bunch of other horny teens: what more would you expect than for them to be utterly drunk with the heady possibilities of freedom? But there’s a darkness that hangs over the heads of the Shadyside campers and counselors in Fear Street: 1978, an indescribable burden of trauma that they all carry with them. Summer camp movies normally have a light, almost breezy tone, even when they end in tragedy. But knowing that the ultimate destiny of Camp Nightwing is to go down in history as the site of one of Shadyside’s most notorious murder sprees takes away none of its urgency - there are plenty of twists and turns along the way. The curse of the witch casts a shadow over the lives of them all. The characters careen towards an inevitable, tragic conclusion, fated to die simply because they are from Shadyside.
Here, then, we have the classic summer camp slasher, made all the more tense and ominous by the fact that we already know how it ends. But their priorities will change drastically when resident witch Sarah Fier is introduced to the mix. Meanwhile, her preppy older sister Cindy (Emily Rudd), determined to escape the Shadyside deadbeat curse, is focused entirely on her counselor responsibilities, planning the annual Color War, and desperately trying to stop her fellow counselors from constantly horning up the place. Ziggy Berman (Sadie Sink) isn’t exactly having the best time of it: her somewhat less than sunny disposition combines with the bullying behavior of the Sunnyvale girls to make for a particularly explosive situation. Most of the action takes place in 1978, on the day leading up to the attack in what is a very Wet Hot American Summer atmosphere. Berman (Gillian Jacobs) to save a possessed Sam from the clutches of the witch, she recounts her own nightmarish experience at Camp Nightwing, where an axe murderer on a killing spree took out half the camp, including her sister. It amps up the gore, the teen sex, the tension, and the needle drops (oh, the needle drops) in what is an unquestionably entertaining middle outing of a trilogy careening towards its conclusion.Īs Deena and Josh seek the help of C. If Fear Street: 1994 was a play on Scream, Fear Street: 1978 is Friday the 13th and Sleepaway Camp all the way. This is Fear Street Part II: 1978, and it functions as both a continuation of the narrative from the 1994 edition and a gruesome summer camp slasher in its own right. You can support the show, get access to bonus episodes, vote on upcoming titles, and more at /goosebudsĭress your skeleton with Goosebuds apparel at goosebuds.storeĮmail: by Kevin Cole by Seth Earnest ()Įmail: by Kevin Cole by Seth Earnest (sethearnest.For the second time this July, we’re back in Shadyside, the town that just cannot take a break from its homicidal shenanigans. OFF-TOPICS: Kevin's cosplay adventures, getting glomp'ed, Chad's ideal cosplay rig, a curious Brit, western Miyazaki dubs, Space Jam 2: The Death of Culture.
Also that Silent Hill-esque cave heart was rad.
We talk about comparisons to the Scream vibes of 1994, whatever themes the movies are going for, and the rules of 'Color War' games. This homage to Friday the 13th is brutal and there are a lot of sweet, innocent children getting axes in the face.
COLOR WAR FEAR STREET MOVIE
These two hairy-belly men discuss the second installment in this Fear Street movie 'chillogy'. Welcome to Camp Nightwing, Goosebuddies! Uncle 'Traveling' Paul is exploring the West Coast so your hosts tonight are Chad and Kevin.
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