10 Horror Movie Franchises With No Bad Movies

5. Fear Street

Fear Street Part 2: 1978 Sadie Sink
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To say the Fear Street movies were a long time coming would be an understatement, with both a TV and a film adaptation of R.L. Stine's Fear Street books having been in various stages of development as far back as 1997. So, when the movie trilogy - Fear Street Part One: 1994, Fear Street Part Two:1978, and Fear Street Part Three: 1666 - was drip-fed onto Netflix across July 2021, intrigue was high as to whether these features would do justice to their exceptional source material.

Thankfully, these trio of Fear Street flicks successfully pleased existing fans of the IP, whilst also garnering plentiful plaudits from those completely unfamiliar with Stine's series of novels.

With all three films directed by Leigh Janiak, the horrors of Fear Street take place in the cursed town of Shadyside. While Stine's Goosebumps tales may primarily be geared towards a young audience, Fear Street has a far more adult slant to it, and that is represented exceptionally well across Janiak's films.

Striding the line between slasher and supernatural, this Netflix trilogy is a bloody, brutal beast that pulls no punches. One way in which these films really shine, though, is in how unique they make each movie feel while still having them flow as connected pieces of a larger story. In this regard, the musical choices, fashion choices, and general colour palettes all make the 1994 (present-day), 1978 (Camp Nightwing Massacre), and 1666 (origins of this curse) settings shine through.

Still, the one glaring negative about Fear Street is those atrocious accents in Fear Street Part Three: 1666...

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