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Fear Street Part Two: 1978 (2021)

The second part of Leigh Janiak and team's Fear Street series, Fear Street Part Two: 1978, is a horror/slasher film that continues to follow the novel series by R.L. Stine loosely. Part Two heads to an origin point in the franchise as it follows a group of teens attending Camp Nightwing as they must contend with a possessed counselor that has been murdering those attending and working at the camp. The film is narratively framed through the eyes of one of the protagonists twenty years later as she recounts the massacre.

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Fear Street: Part Two - 1978
R
Horror
Drama
Mystery

Director
Leigh Janiak
Release Date
July 9, 2021
Studio(s)
Netflix
Distributor(s)
Netflix
Cast
Meghan Packer , Gillian Jacobs , Matthew Zuk , Kiana Madeira , Benjamin Flores Jr. , Olivia Welch
Writers
Zak Olkewicz , Leigh Janiak , Phil Graziadei , R.L. Stine
Runtime
109 minutes
Franchise(s)
Fear Street

Summary

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.

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