[Editor’s note: The following post contains spoilers for “Fear Street Part 1: 1994.”]Author R.L.
Stine’s long-running YA series “Fear Street” might be decidedly PG in its thrills, chills, and kills, but when it came time to transfer his creepy vision to the big screen, things took one hell of an R-rated turn.
In filmmaker Leigh Janiak’s Netflix trilogy, the stakes are very real, and so too is the gore level, which unspools via a wide variety of icky, bloody, and just plain scary kills.“Right away, I was like, these have to be R-rated slasher movies,” Janiak said in a recent interview with IndieWire.
“I was thinking about being 10 and 11 and sneaking to the video store and renting things I wasn’t supposed to rent, like ‘Child’s Play’ and ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street.’ That was an important part, always, for me.”Janiak’s trilogy, while somewhat loosely based on Stine’s many “Fear Street” novels,
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