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Fear Street Part 2: 1978 (2021)

Fear Street Part 2: 1978 poster
Original title
Fear Street: 1978
Directed by
Leigh Janiak
Genre
horror film, slasher film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 50m
Rated
R
Rating
7.2 of 10 from 2,260 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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In the summer of 1978, teenagers at Camp Nightwing are stalked and killed by a supernatural force tied to Shadyside's cursed history. A group of campers must survive the night and uncover the truth behind the murders.

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What happens

Fear Street Part Two: 1978 (titled onscreen as Fear Street 1978) is a 2021 American supernatural slasher film directed by Leigh Janiak. It is the second installment in the Fear Street trilogy, with a script co-written by Janiak and Zak Olkewicz from a story by Janiak, Olkewicz and Phil Graziadei, based on R. L. Stine's book series of the same name. Primarily set in the summer of 1978, the film follows a group of teens at Camp Nightwing as they face a deadly killing spree connected to the dark past of Shadyside. It stars Sadie Sink, Emily Rudd, Ryan Simpkins, McCabe Slye, Ted Sutherland, Gillian Jacobs, Kiana Madeira, Benjamin Flores Jr., and Olivia Scott Welch. Produced by Chernin Entertainment, a film adaptation of Fear Street began development at 20th Century Fox in 2015, with Janiak hired in 2017. Filming for the trilogy took place back-to-back from March to September 2019 in Georgia, with the intention of a theatrical release beginning June 2020. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney, Chernin Entertainment ended their distribution deal with 20th Century Studios and sold rights to Netflix in August 2020. Fear Street Part Two: 1978 premiered at the Los Angeles State Historic Park on July 8, 2021, and was released by Netflix on July 9, 2021 a week after the first film Part One: 1994. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and is considered to be the best film of the trilogy. The final installment, Part Three: 1666, was released on July 16. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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