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| Title: | Fear Street: 1994 |
| Directed by: | Leigh Janiak |
| Written by: | Phil Graziadei; Leigh Janiak; Kyle Killen |
| Produced by: | Kori Adelson; Yvonne Bernard; Timothy M. Bourne; Peter Chernin; Leigh Janiak; Jeremy Platt; David Ready; Jenno Topping; Doug Torres; Adam Wingard |
| Music by: | Marco Beltrami; Anna Drubich; Marcus Trumpp |
| Cinematography: | Caleb Heymann |
| Edited by: | Rachel Goodlet Katz |
| Production | |
| Distributors: | Netflix Chernin Entertainment |
| Released: | July 2nd, 2021 |
| Rating: | R |
| Running time: | 107 min. |
| Country: | USA |
| Language: | English |
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Fear Street, Part One: 1994 is an American independent feature film of the supernatural thriller subgenre of horror. It was directed by Leigh Janiak with a screenplay by Janiak and Phil Graziadei based on a story treatment by Janiak, Graziadei, and Kyle Killen. It is the first installment in a three-part series produced by Chernin Entertainment. It premiered on Netflix on Friday, July 2nd, 2021.
Cast[]
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Maya Hawke | Heather |
| Charlene Amoia | Rachel Thompson |
| David W. Thompson | Ryan Torres |
| Noah Garrett | Skull Mask |
| Darrell Britt-Gibson | Martin |
| Ashley Zukerman | Nick Goode |
| Kiana Madeira | Deena |
| Jana Allen | TV reporter #1 |
| Benjamin Flores, Jr. | Josh |
| Julia Rehwald | Kate |
| Fred Hechinger | Simon |
| Matt Burke | Football coach |
| Christian Bridges | Fun Shadyside football player |
| Matthew Zuk | Mayor Will Goode |
| Olivia Scott Welch | Samantha Fraser |
| Jeremy Ford | Peter |
| Jaime Matthis | Shadyside player |
| Danyon Huntington | Sunnyvale Skull Mask |
| Elizabeth Scopel | Sarah Fier |
| Tayla Rogers | Babysitting twin |
| Maya Rogers | Babysitting twin |
| Jordana Spiro | Mrs. Lane |
| Diane Sellers | Check-in nurse |
| Eric Mendenhall | Nurse Beddy |
| Todd Allen Durkin | Officer Kapinski |
| Jordyn DiNatale | Ruby Lane |
| Lloyd Pitts | Nightwing killer |
| Kevin Waterman | The Milkman, Harry Rooker |
| Emily Brobst | Billy Barker |
| Keil Oakley Zepernick | Shame Killer, Isaac Milton |
| Michael Chandler | The Pastor, Cyrus Miller |
| Lacy Camp | Mrs. Fraser |
| Meghan Packer | TV reporter #2 |
| Gillian Jacobs | C. Berman |
| Paul | CG Fly #1 (voice) |
| Christina | CG Fly #2 (voice) |
| Guillermo | CG Fly #3 (voice) |
Notes & Trivia[]
- Fear Street: 1994 redirects to this page.
- The tagline for this film is "Face the evil". The tagline for the entire series is "Three movies. Three weeks. One killer story".
- This film is based on the Fear Street book series by author R.L. Stine, which began as a teen horror series in 1989. A younger reader spin-off series Ghosts of Fear Street was published in 1995.
- There are a total of thirty-seven credited cast members in this film; thirty-four of which are live actors, with three of them being voice actors (Credited by first name only). This is two total cast members less than that which appears in Fear Street: 1978.
- Production on Fear Street: 1994 began on March 11th, 2019 with principal filming on all three segments concluding on September 1st, 2019. Originally intended for a theatrical release, the schedule was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Distribution rights shifted from Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation to Netflix following Fox's acquisition by Walt Disney Productions.
- Fear Street: 1994 premiered at the Los Angeles State Historic Park on June 28th, 2021, prior to its release on Netflix.
- On the movie review website Rotten Tomatoes, Fear Street: 1994 has a Tomatometer rating of 80% Fresh based on eighty-five approved critic reviews. It has an audience score of 64% based on more than 500 ratings.
- On Metacritic, Fear Street: 1994 has a Metascore of 67 out of 100, indicating generally favorable reviews among twenty posted critics. It has a user score of 5.8 based on 96 ratings.
- The central setting for this film is the fictional Shadyside, Ohio in the year 1994, and also includes the neighboring community of Sunnyvale (not to be confused with Sunnyvale, California, or the the fictional town of Sunnydale from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
What Else Have They Done?[]
- Director Leigh Janiak has also directed two episodes of Scream: The Series. She directed "In the Trenches" and "The Orphanage".
- Writer Phil Graziadei also co-wrote the script for the 2014 thriller Honeymoon, which was also directed by Leigh Janiak.
- Actress Kiana Madeira also played the dual role of Hannah & Evil Hannah in the "Double Negative" episode of My Babysitter's a Vampire. She also played Lindsay in The Night Before Halloween in 2016. In 2019, she played Suzzie in She Never Died.
- Actress Olivia Scott Welch previously played Heather Nill in the action series Panic. She was credited as Olivia Welch on the show.
- Actor Benjamin Flores, Jr. also played Louie Preston on the sitcom series The Haunted Hathaways from 2013-2015.
- Actor Ashley Zukerman also played a character named Will in the "Pillar of Salt" episode of Fear the Walking Dead in 2016.
- Actress Gillian Jacobs also plays a distraught mother named Sarah in the Come Play in 2020. She is best known however, for playing Britta Perry on the sitcom series Community.
- Actress Sadie Sink, who takes on a larger role in the film's sequel, Fear Street Part Two: 1978, is best known for playing the role of Max Mayfield on the Netflix series Stranger Things, beginning with season two.