Key Takeaways
- Fear Street: Prom Queen will debut on Netflix in 2025 with a new story set during a high school prom night.
- The film will feature an outsider nominated for Prom Queen and the mysterious disappearances of the other entrants.
- The new Fear Street installment features a cast that includes actors like Katherine Waterston and Ariana Greenblatt.
Netflix found success with its trilogy of Fear Street movies back in 2021, and the much-anticipated fourth film in the franchise, Fear Street: Prom Queen is on the way.
The Fear Street trilogy was based on R.L. Stine’s popular young adult horror novel series of the same name. Netflix loosely adapted the concept into a trio of films in 2021, with each film released on streaming weekly over three weeks. Fear Street Part One: 1984, Fear Street Part Two: 1978, and Fear Street Part Three: 1666, shared an overarching narrative but introduced new characters in each film, with each story taking place in a different time period. Some notable actors involved included Stranger Things’ Sadie Sink and Community’s Gillian Jacobs. The films were released to critical success, with each ranking higher than 80% on Rotten Tomatoes.
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Netflix Provides Update on Fear Street: Prom Queen
Netflix is preparing to make a return to Fear Street with a new film, titled Fear Street: Prom Queen. The streamer recently revealed the poster and release window for the new Fear Street film, with the movie set to debut sometime in 2025. The poster for Fear Street: Prom Queen echoes the pulpy horror covers of R.L. Stine’s novels, showing a school billboard that reads “Shadyside High School Senior Prom ‘88”, with the letters ‘D’, ‘I’, ‘E’ highlighted to spell out ‘die’. Beneath the sign is a blood-stained axe.
The film will seemingly not be a direct sequel or prequel to the Fear Street trilogy and instead draws from R.L. Stine’s 1992 novel, The Prom Queen. It takes place in Shadyside during the high school prom night in 1988. Netflix’s Tudum revealed Fear Street: Prom Queen will include the “It Girls” of Prom Night who are campaigning to be crowned Queen. However, when an outsider is nominated for Prom Queen and the other entrants start disappearing, it makes for “one hell of a prom night”.
When a gutsy outsider is unexpectedly nominated to the court, and the other girls start mysteriously disappearing, the class of ’88 is suddenly in for one hell of a prom night.
Fear Street: Prom Queen Has A New Cast
The cast for Fear Street Prom Queen includes notable names Ariana Greenblatt (Barbie), Katherine Waterston (Alien: Covenant), and Lili Taylor (Outer Range), along with fresher faces India Fowler (The Nevers), Fina Strazza (Paper Girls), Suzanna Son (The Idol), David Iacono (The Summer I Turned Pretty), and Ella Rubin (The Idea of You). The new Netflix horror film is being directed by Matt Palmer, who co-wrote the movie with Donald McLeary.
The ending of Fear Street: 1666 did involve a teaser that could lead to some of the evil deeds set to transpire in Fear Street: Prom Queen. The post-credits scene showed an unnamed figure take the widow’s satanic book from where it was left long ago by Sarah Fier. The new Fear Street: Prom Queen film will take place in 1988, which is slightly after Fear Street: Part Two, but prior to the events of Fear Street: Part One, which means it could act as something of an intermediary for the events of both films, albeit with new characters. Netflix is yet to announce when in 2025 exactly the fourth Fear Street film will be released but the movies have not been tied to the Halloween horror season in the past, meaning it could be released at any time.
Fear Street: Prom Queen will be released on Netflix in 2025.
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