An endless playfulness when it comes to slasher genre conventions makes Fear Street Part Two: 1978 a cut above its influences
has it all figured out. An equally enjoyable followup to the Netflix franchise’sfranchise, it’s just that the names have been changed. Instead of Camp Crystal La
ke, Fear Street’s is Camp Nightwing, and instead of an axe-wielding murderer named Jason Voorhees, Nightwing’s resident terrorist is Tommy, an eventually masked, possessed counselor ., which Janiak adapted from R.L. Stine’s YA book franchise alongside co-writer Phil Graziadei, is more exacting than your averagemovie.
movies were set at camp in the days before any of the campers arrived, so it was just counselors getting hacked up. Not so here—Tommy goes after and in fact kills children.manages to be more sensitive than anything in the Friday the 13th series. Through its direct engagement with the Final Girl archetype ,’s ostensible Final Girl, counselor Cindy , inhabits most of the goody-goody attributes of classic Final Girls, as detailed by Clover in her 1992 bookThe Final Girl is boyish, in a word.
Cindy is the type of character so straight-laced that her cursing takes her peers aback. She’s a celibate teetotaler, but her virtue isn’t presented as some sort of magical endowment. Just as Sidney inrefused sex for reasons tied directly to her past , Cindy has a specific motivation for projecting such a squeaky clean identity.
I knew then I wasn’t different from the other Shadysiders. I was cursed. I told myself that if I was perfect, if I did everything right, I could beat it. I snitched on you, I got new friends, I… started dressing like this. I dated sweet Tommy. I avoided you, but I couldn’t avoid [her sister] Ziggy. Because she was there always reminding me of the truth. That this town, this place, was cursed. And so were we. She was right all this time.
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