A new entry into the franchise, Fear Street: Prom Queen, was recently released on Netflix. It tells another Shadyside story, this time set in 1988.

Now, we're not saying the other two movies in the Fear Street trilogy aren't worth watching because each has its moments as well. However, there's just something about 1978 that hits differently.

Fear Street: Prom Queen is a slasher that spares no one from the clutches of brutal, bloody murder. Innocent high schoolers and grown-ups meet their untimely, gory doom—on prom night, no less.

Las Vegas (KLAS)-“Fear Street: Prom Queen” takes viewers prom season at Shadyside High. The school’s wolfpack of It-Girls is busy with its usual sweet and vicious campaigns for the crown ...

A film adaptation of R.L. Stine’s 1992 “Fear Street” novel “The Prom Queen” is in development at Netflix, the author himself reports. Stine took to X/Twitter on Saturday to share the ...

Fear Street: Prom Queen shifts to classic slasher roots with a 1988 Shadyside prom queen murder spree Mixed reviews and a 48% Rotten Tomatoes score make it the lowest-rated entry in the Fear ...

Fear Street: Prom Queen plays out like most whodunit slasher movies, keeping viewers on their toes about the killer’s identity and leaving the big unmasking for the film’s final act. Unlike ...

However, the common denominator is the setting, the town of Shadyside. Based on R.L. Stine’s novel, Fear Street: Prom Queen transports audiences to 1988.

A more direct adaptation of Stine's adored YA horror novels, this movie is set in 1988 Shadyside, where a cloaked killer is knocking off would-be prom queens ahead of prom.

Fear Street: Prom Queen fails to channel both the outrageous aesthetics and the brutal violence of the films it’s imitating, making this indifferently made exercise in YA horror supremely skippable.

Fear Street: Prom Queen is a slasher that spares no one from the clutches of brutal, bloody murder. Innocent high schoolers and grown-ups meet their untimely, gory doom—on prom night, no less.