We’re speaking to the three central young people in the Fear Steet movies – Madeira, Benjamin Flores Jr. who plays Josh and Olivia Scott Welch who plays Sam – about switching eras for the first and third Fear Street movies which jumps from the Nineties in Part One, to the 1600s in Part Three (they’re largely not in the second installment, which takes place in the Seventies).

Luckily, for Part One of Fear Street, there were plenty of people on-hand who remembers the Nineties to get the actors in the right mindset: “Before we started filming, Leigh (Janiak, who co-wrote and directed all three films) made a whole Nineties playlist for us to listen to for the movie,” Flores Jr tells us. “So we could get into that vibe with the Nineties and stuff like that.

“Even when we were filming on set, everything we had around us was from the Nineties – movies, TVs, phones, they were all from the Nineties. So it was super easy to get into that mode. We worked with everybody who was from the Nineties too so if we ever had any questions, we could literally just go ask someone.”

“I loved listening to the music,” Welch agrees. “I had listened to the Pixies some but Leigh is a huge Pixies fan. Listening to the music was really cool and different. I feel like I grew a big appreciation for Nineties music. I’d like liked it before, but now I’m like: ‘You don’t understand! It was different.’ And then I’m like: ‘What am I talking about?’ I just played one. I didn’t actually live in the Nineties as a teenager, but it feels like I did [haha]!”

It’s not just the music that the actors appreciated from the era, the clothes were pretty cool too: “I love Doc Martens now,” Madeira enthuses. “Deena wears Doc Martens and I actually still have the same pair that I wore in the movies because I broke them in. The wardrobe [department] were so great, they let me keep them because, in the beginning, they’re pretty uncomfortable, but then when you break them in, they fit like gloves! Doc Martens are super popular now but really popular then and I didn’t realise how stylish and comfortable they can be. They are the best boots!”

“I love the apparel from the Nineties,” Flores Jr agrees. “I never used to like jeans, but when I started playing Josh, I had to wear jeans and I love jeans now.  Yeah, Fear Street definitely changed my wardrobe up a little bit. I was like: I need to get some jeans! But the outfits we wore in the 1600s were pretty awesome too.”

Ah yes, as was clear from the recently-released trailer for Fear Street Part Three: 1666 the actors from the first two movies, also star in the third movie in a different role. Playing characters in the 1600s certainly brought up a few challenges for the actors, specifically with the change in dialect: “Our dialect coach is this wonderful woman named Charlotte Fleck. She sourced a diary from the 1600s that someone wrote. It’s this person’s account of like: ‘Today, we had our harvest’  and ‘tonight, we’re having a town meeting’. It was just the day-to-day of what they did, and we all got [a copy], and then we would be like: ‘Did you read that page about that someone was cheating on their wife?’ Such 1600s drama!”

“I feel like I had a lot of imagination when we were filming the 1600s because we were on this open field and there were little homes planted everywhere,” Flores Jr remembers. “So it was just open to your imagination. You could think of the 1600s as whatever.”

No matter the era, the cast believe that at the movies’ core there are positive and important messages for people to take away with all them, and they’re definitely going to get more than they first might expect.

“People are going to be coming in like ‘oh, these are horror movies’ and they’re definitely going to get that but they’re also going to pick up on a lot of other deep messages that people in their daily lives struggle with,” Flores Jr tells us, “and hopefully we did a good job of bringing that to the surface and making it very easy and understandable for people.”

“I hope that audiences feel that even if you’re labelled an outsider or other or considered an underdog, you can win,” Madeira adds. “You can be the hero of your own story. The film is about Shadyside, a group of misfits and outsiders who actually come together and empower each other.

“I think that’s really important and really powerful to see on screen.”

Fear Street Part One: 1994  and Part Two: 1978 are available now on Netflix. Part Three: 1666 will be released on 16 July 2021.

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We’re sure by now you’ve already played that cool mixtape after watching Fear Street Part One: 1994 and dug out those bell-bottom jeans for Seventies-set Fear Street Part Two: 1978. Well now it’s time to… put on that bonnet (?!)… for Fear Street Part Three: 1666 which we’ve been told is the scariest of the three and is set to hit our screens this Friday!

Check out the trailer…

Directed by Leigh Janiak (who co-wrote and directed all three films), Fear Street Part Three: 1666 sees the origins of Sarah Fier’s curse finally revealed as history comes full circle on a night that changes the lives of Shadysiders forever.

You’ll recognise some of those faces from the previous two films as the cast return for a joint role in the third film with Kiana Madeira as Sarah Fier/Deena, Ashley Zukerman as Solomon Goode/Sheriff Goode, Gillian Jacobs as Ziggy Berman, Olivia Scott Welch as Hannah Miller/Sam, Benjamin Flores Jr as Henry Fier/Josh, Darrell Britt-Gibson as Martin, Sadie Sink as Constance, Emily Rudd as Abigail, McCabe Slye as Mad Thomas, Julia Rehwald as Lizzie, Fred Hechinger as Isaac, Jordana Spiro as The Widow, Elizabeth Scopel as Sarah Fier, Randy Havens as George Fier.

Keep it with SciFiNow this week as we discuss all three films’ amazing costumes with the cast of Fear Street and with director Leigh Janiak.

Fear Street Part One: 1994  and Part Two: 1978 are available now on Netflix. Part Three: 1666 will be released on 16 July 2021.

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In this case, it’s ‘The Skull Mask Killer’ aka Ryan Torres – a seemingly normal teenager from the town of Shadyside who suddenly goes an a murder rampage one night while working late at the local mall. Find out more with SciFiNow’s killer profile…

Based on R.L. Stine’s best-selling horror series, Fear Street follows Shadyside’s sinister history through a nightmare 300 years in the making.

The first chapter in the trilogy is set in 1994, and follows group of teenagers who discover the terrifying events that have haunted their town for generations may all be connected — and they may be the next targets.

There are plenty of iconic serial killers to look out for in all three movies of Fear Street but co-writer and director Leigh Janiak considers Skull Mask her favorite: “I think it’s just because I have an affinity to the Nineties!” she tells us when we ask her why.

In fact, Janiak and her crew created each serial killer based on the decade in which their murder sprees take place and seeing as she attributes Wes Craven and written by Kevin Williamson’s 1996 slasher classic Scream as an influence, Skull Mask had to have the “knife and the Halloween costume”.

The Ghost-Face-inspired killer isn’t just a firm favourite with its creator, the cast of Fear Street Part 1: 1994 think he’s a pretty effective murderer too…

“Skull Mask is pretty scary because of the knife,” Benjamin Flores Jr.tells us who plays Josh. “The more and more I think about him just wearing a cloak and you can’t see his feet [it looks like] he’s just like moving really fast. He just pops up on you and he has to get really close for those kills!”

“Yeah his knife is so small that he’d have to stab you a bunch!” agrees Olivia Scott Welcs, who plays Sam. “And that’s scary…”

“The first skull mask murder scene you’re kind of like ‘oh… this is a lot!’” adds Kiana Madeira who plays Deena. “Lots of damage was done for that death to happen…!”

Indeed, like Scream, Fear Street Part 1: 1994 starts with a horrific murder that sets the mood for the rest of the movie: “[The Nineties] was this great era of what I think was a resurgence of the slasher genre with movies like Scream which had characters that were a little more self-aware, a little more sarcastic, it was kind of challenging the conventions of the genre,” she tells us.

There are plenty more iconic killers to look out for in Fear Street Part 1: 1994, Part 2: 1978 and Part 3: 1666 and they’re all unique in their own way.

“It was so fun creating the killers,” Janiak tells us. “I created a page backstory for each of the killers. I wanted to be able to have that for the actors that were playing them and then also hint at this world that could exist…”

Fear Street 1994: Part 1, the first of the Fear Street Trilogy, is available on Netflix from Friday. Fear Street Part 2: 1978 and Fear Street Part 3: 1666 follow on 9 and 16 July.

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The official trailer and key art for the first movie in Netflix’s upcoming trilogy of terror has been released with Fear Street Part 1: 1994, which is due to hit our screens this week.

Watch the trailer here…

Based on R.L. Stine’s best-selling horror series, Fear Street follows Shadyside’s sinister history through a nightmare 300 years in the making.

The first chapter in the trilogy is set in 1994, and follows group of teenagers who discover the terrifying events that have haunted their town for generations may all be connected — and they may be the next targets.

Directed by Leigh Janiak, Fear Street Part 1: 1994 stars Kiana Madeira (Dark Matter), Olivia Scott Welch (Panic), Benjamin Flores Jr (Rim of the World), Julia Rehwald, Fred Hechinger (The Woman in the Window), Ashley Zukerman (Succession), Maya Hawke (Stranger Things), Darrell Britt-Gibson (Judas and the Black Messiah), Jordana Spiro (Ozark), and Jordyn DiNatale (The Birch).

Fear Street Part 1: 1994 is releasing globally on Netflix on 2 July.

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What’s better than a horror movie based on a classic story by R L Stine? THREE horror movies based on three classic Fear Street stories by R L Stine!

Check out the brand new trailer here…

That’s right, new from Netflix is Fear Street where, in 1994, a group of teenagers discover that the terrifying events that have haunted their town for generations may all be connected — and that they may be the next targets.

The trilogy follows the nightmare through Shadyside’s sinister history, starting with:

Fear Street Part 1: 1994

A circle of teenage friends accidentally encounter the ancient evil responsible for a series of brutal murders that have plagued their town for over 300 years. Welcome to Shadyside.

Fear Street Part 2: 1978

Shadyside, 1978. School’s out for summer and the activities at Camp Nightwing are about to begin. But when another Shadysider is possessed with the urge to kill, the fun in the sun becomes a gruesome fight for survival.

Fear Street Part 3: 1666

The origins of Sarah Fier’s curse are finally revealed as history comes full circle on a night that changes the lives of Shadysiders forever.

Fear Street part 1: 1994 is releasing globally on Netflix on 2 July, part 2 will be on 9 July and part 3 will be releasing on 16 July 2021.

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