20 Best Horror Movies Of 2021
11. The Fear Street Trilogy
Netflix's Fear Street trilogy offered up a distinctly R-rated adaptation of R.L. Stine's legendary YA horror novel series, and while all three volumes are certainly not of equal quality, collectively they make for quite the impressive calling card for filmmaker Leigh Janiak.
Spanning three distinct time periods and incorporating a large ensemble cast, Fear Street was a categorical streaming movie event this past summer, with the three films - set in 1994, 1978, and 1666 - dropping a week apart.
Stylishly filmed, jam-packed with nods to the genre's most beloved entries, and tenaciously acted by its cast, Fear Street tackles teen horror with an uncommonly savage eye, refusing to hold back on the brutality just because you might happen to like some of these young characters.
The kills are routinely grisly and, in the instance of a certain bread slicer death, absolutely, nauseatingly unforgettable. Hopefully the success of the trilogy on Netflix might see other genre storytellers get similar opportunities with a larger canvas.