![]() Save for the unfortunate accents, which I couldn’t place geographically or temporally and which the performers struggled to maintain, the first half of Part 3 is a noble experiment in immersing viewers in the history of a place instead of relying on thin flashbacks. Madeira gives a strong performance as Fier, and McCabe Slye (who played Tommy Slater in Part 2) as Mad Thomas, the town’s fanatical self-proclaimed prophet, brings a sardonic levity to the sometimes self-serious tale. Actors who played friends in the previous films appear as members of this community, and Janiak and her co-writers Phil Graziadei and Kate Trefry go as far as to have some of them utter exact lines from the first installment - an approach that showcases the director’s inventiveness and underscores the film’s broader concerns with how the past haunts the present. The settlement, not yet divided into Sunnyvale or Shadyside, is simply called Union. Madeira now plays Fier and Welch her lover, Hannah Miller. Janiak creates a sinister simulacrum, cleverly casting the actors from the first films as the 17th century settlers. But when Deena does that, she’s transported to the year 1666, where she watches the events responsible for their contemporary afflictions unfold. According to legend, whoever reunites Fier’s skeletal hand with her body (they’re buried in different parts of town) could potentially end the murders in Shadyside. The third, unfortunately, mostly feels like an obligation.Īt the end of Fear Street Part 2, Deena (Kiana Madeira) and her brother, Josh (Benjamin Flores Jr.), return to the witch Sarah Fier’s burial site in hopes of breaking the curse and bringing back Deena’s girlfriend, Sam (Olivia Scott Welch), who has been possessed by the demonic energy rippling through Shadyside. The first two films, Fear Street Part 1: 1994 and Fear Street Part 2: 1978, delivered on enough of these promises to make them worth watching - the former subverting genre expectations, the latter reveling in gore and bloody murder. Screenwriters: Leigh Janiak, Phil Graziadei, Kate Trefry Cast: Kiana Madeira, Ashley Zukeran, Gillian Jacobs, Olivia Scott Welch, Benjamin Flores Jr. ![]()
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