Oops! Missed a couple of days - was trying for the every other day posting thing - sorry. And, unfortunately, this one won't have been worth waiting for. I REALLY need to get myself a Shudder subscription because the mainstream horror streamers have been uninspiring, to say the least. I was poking around on Netflix (having recently given up our Hulu/Disney/HBO scrip and being unwilling to sign my "smart tv" onto my Amzn account for the Prime offerings): I'm fixing to dive into the new 28 Years this weekend but needed a midweek watch. And I landed on Fear Street: Prom Queen.
I've watched a couple other of these R.L. Stine Fear Streets. I know they're for the tweens. I've never read any of the books and I don't know if it's important to have seen all of the Fear Street movies - I suspect not, but I also think there were some callbacks/references that I missed. Regardless, I have been in the mood for some 80s horror and this was ... sort of that.
Set in 1988, at the Shadyside High School prom, we've got a slasher flick whose masked killer is working his/her way through the prom queen candidates, and their dates, and a whole bunch of adjacent fodder. The plot is pretty simple: a mean girl, her coterie and an outsider are all in the running for Prom Queen. The outsider has family baggage and a weird BFF, but used to be friends with - and now has a crush on - the mean girl's boyfriend. A whole bunch of people get hacked to pieces - mad props to the guillotine paper cutter! - and SPOILER the outsider girl does actually get to be Prom Queen.
Look, at the risk of aging myself, I literally was the class of 1988. And my high school/prom looked nothing like this. Budget is probably an issue but at best, the costuming was a combination 80s/90s. The music was okay but the hair was way off. Kudos to nabbing Lili Taylor, Chris Klein and Katherine Waterston to play the adults.
In a nutshell, not a complete waste of time: meh acting, decent body count/gore, not scary.
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