Netflix has released the first trailer for Fear Street: Prom Queen, the first film in the horror series since the 2021 trilogy.
It’s 1988, and prom is right around the corner. The school’s popular girls are vying to be crowned Prom Queen, but their anxieties about how they look and how many votes they’ll get are nothing compared to what lurks around the corner…
People are going missing, and an axe-wielding figure in a red coat is committing bloody murders.
It’s decided that the prom will go ahead anyway, but how can anyone be crowned Prom Queen if everyone is dead?
The film stars Barbie’s Ariana Greenblatt, Alien: Covenant‘s Katherine Waterston, Red Rocket’s Suzanna Son, The Agency’s India Fowler, Ginny & Georgia’s Rebecca Ablack, and Paper Towns’ Fina Strazza.
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This will be a one-off rather than the start of a new connected trilogy, but there are still plenty of potential Fear Street movies that could get made, considering Goosebumps author RL Stine has penned other books in the series.
Leigh Janiak, who directed the first three films, previously spoke about her desire to create a horror franchise equivalent to the MCU.
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“One of the things that I talked about before I was hired was that we have a potential here to create a horror Marvel, where you can have slasher killers from lots of different eras,” she said.
“You have the canon of our main mythology that’s built around the fact that the devil lives in Shadyside, so there’s also room for everything else… I think that my hope is that audiences like it enough that we can start building out [more].”
Fear Street: Prom Queen will be released on Netflix on 23 May.
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