Movie Review: Fear Street 1666

Title: Fear Street Part 3: 1666

Series: Fear Street #3

Previous movies in the series: Fear Street Part 1: 1994 | Fear Street Part 2: 1978

Based on Fear Street by R.L. Stine

Rating: R (strong violence and gore, language, some sexuality and brief drug use)

Release date: July 16th 2021

Run time: 1 hr 54 min

Genre: Horror, suspense, mystery

Production company: Chernin Entertainment

Director: Leigh Janiak

Stars: Kiana Madeira, Ashley Zukerman, Gillian Jacobs

Watch it on Netflix

Synopsis: Thrust back to 1666, Deena learns the truth about Sarah Fier. Back in 1994, the friends fight for their lives — and Shadyside's future.

My rating: ★★★★☆

One of my favorite Fear Street series is the Fear Street Saga trilogy that talks about the origins of the Fears and their feud with the Goodes. That's why I was particularly excited to watch this movie! And I have to say, I really enjoyed it! Now, this movie doesn't follow that series exactly, but I do think it pulled at least a little inspiration from it.

As the title suggests, this movie takes place mostly in 1666 and it follows Sarah Fier and how the curse came to be. I was really glad to see familiar faces from both the first and second movie in this one as they played different roles in this one. It was really interesting to see the reason why Sarah was being accused of witchcraft, and let me tell you, it made me mad!

So some asshole was rejected by the poor girl and then he claims he saw Sarah and Hannah making out in the woods and his wittle feelings were hurt so then he claimed that he saw both of the girls doing witchcraft! Ugh! So Sarah took all the blame and was basically killed for being a lesbian. That's awful! 😫 And what's sad is that Sarah thought there was something wrong with her for liking Hannah 😭 And on top of all that, Hannah said that it didn't even matter whether they did witchcraft or not because the village thought they were guilty, so they just were. That's how it works with these assholes 😫

Like I mentioned before, the movie doesn't follow the series exactly, but I definitely saw some parallels, which I liked. It made sense with the mythos of the movies.

It was the Goodes this whole time with the witchcraft! They made a deal with the devil where they basically sacrificed one person (all the killers!) every couple of years in exchange for good fortune and stuff.
Meanwhile, in the books it was almost flipped, where the Fears were the ones who were into witchcraft and accused innocent Susannah Goode instead. Although in the books neither family was very innocent. It turned out that Susannah's father was very much into witchcraft, and over the years, the Goodes did some pretty horrible things too. But I really did like the turn the movie took.

The third act of the movie takes place back in 1994 as the kids try to break the curse, and I really enjoyed this! They set up traps and the showdown with the killers was great! And Omg there was a vest made out of Fear Street books! 🤣 I loved that!

But yeah, I really enjoyed this movie! I liked the lore and how it paralleled the books, but almost flipped in a way. I also enjoyed the complex characters, the action, and especially the kills. I highly recommend this movie trilogy this spooky season whether you're a fan of the books or of horror movies! It was just good!

The Fear Street connection: Lots of Sarah Fier, of course. There was also a brief stop on Fier Street, but that was very underwhelming 😒

Have you seen the Fear Street movies? I highly recommend them for the spooky season!