Based on the novel series by Goosebumps author R. L. Stine, Netflix’s Fear Street film trilogy has just become a quadrilogy with the release of Fear Street: Prom Queen—and the streaming platform is already planning a fifth instalment. Set in the fictional town of Shadyside, the franchise encomes multigenerational tales of conspiracies, the occult, serial killers, and other grisly ways to terrorise its teen residents, mostly in or around the titular Fear Street.
Plans to adapt the books date back to the late 1990s but didn’t take off properly until Stine returned to them in 2014, and Netflix’s three-part film series launched across three weeks in July 2021. With the first spinoff out and more on the way, here’s how to watch all Fear Street movies in order.
Fear Street Part One: 1994 (2021)
Each of the original Fear Street trilogy of films from Netflix spans three different periods, though the first one serves as the key ‘anchor’ point for the overarching story. As well as its ‘present-day’ setting, Fear Street Part One: 1994 also establishes the mystery from Shadyside’s past to be solved across the three films: A malevolent force is turning people into mindless, savage killers, rumoured to be the vengeful spirit of Sarah Fier, a woman executed for witchcraft centuries ago. The main protagonist, Deena Johnson, is sceptical until her friend Sam becomes a target.
With undead killers from the murder capital’s past also on the loose, Fear Street Part One: 1994 quickly establishes a rich and murky lore for the series, making the following two films essential viewing to get the full picture.
Fear Street Part Two: 1978 (2021)
Deepening its story and lifting the lid a little on its core mystery, Fear Street jumps back 16 years for this direct sequel, Stranger Things’ Sadie Sink stars as a younger version of C. Berman, played by Gillian Jacobs in the present day of 1994, who survived the infamous Camp Nightwing Massacre of 1978.
Here, Fear Street goes full-on Friday the 13th with its slasher summer camp setting, filled with teen rebellion, bullying, and eerily similar murderous circumstances to what Deena and her friends experienced in Part One. Berman’s tragic tale of survival against the odds is one of Fear Street’s emotional high points, also providing vital pieces of the puzzle for Deena and the audience to fit together for the finale.
Fear Street Part Three: 1666 (2021)
The third and final part of the first three Fear Street films finally brings the disparate eras and scattered story fragments together. Fear Street Part Three: 1666’s Puritan setting will be familiar to those who know their witchcraft history. Some mystical out-of-body shenanigans put Deena and the viewers right at the centre of accused witch Sarah Fier’s origin point. It also provides an origin point for the dark shadow cast over Shadyside for hundreds of years.
While half the film is set in 1666, the remaining portion comes full circle, returning Deena to 1994 armed with the information she needs to try and end the curse. The gruesomely creative kills and neon-soaked colour palette are the Fear Street trilogy’s initial draw, but its staying power is rooted in its unique time-displaced structure, crafting an absorbing mythology that every entry satisfyingly builds on to feel cohesive rather than perfunctory.
Fear Street: Prom Queen (2025)
The first sequel to the Fear Street film trilogy is a standalone adaptation of a single Stine book rather than a direct continuation. While you could watch it before the first three, or just on its own, you’re better off sticking to release order, as Fear Street: Prom Queen benefits from viewers already being familiar with Shadyside and its residents’ almost inherent predilection for violence.
Prom Queen mostly takes place on senior prom night in 1988, where the vying candidates for the title are being murdered, one by one. As such, it’s heavily in slasher territory, with the Scream franchise being the clearest comparison point for the school setting, costume, and red herrings. Also leaned on heavily are genre tropes and character archetypes, making it schlockier than the trilogy, but the end twist makes it all worth it.
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