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‘Fear Street: Prom Queen’ Review: Death Stalks High School Halls in Overfamiliar Netflix Slasher Filled With Old Tropes
'Fear Street: Prom Queen," Netflix's first stab at adaption the R.L. Stine series since a high-profile film trilogy in 2021, is comparatively routine.
Stine’s other major publishing franchise, the young adult “ Fear Street ” series, made a decent splash on Netflix four years ago with the premiere of three interlocking features, each set in the same fictitious “cursed” town during a different era. Glimpsed this time in 1988, it’s an outwardly normal, all-American small town that nonetheless constantly suffers grotesque incidents of violent tragedy — one of which took the life of Lori’s father, leaving her mother (Joanne Boland) forever suspected of his murder. Improbably located right across the street from their humble abode is the upscale manse inhabited by the Falconers, a rich couple (Katherine Waterson, Chris Klein) who’ve raised only child Tiffany (Fina Strazza) to be a particularly stinging WASP.
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