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It’s an effective slasher film, but without any definitively original element in its filmmaking.Īs the name suggests, Leigh Janiak’s Fear Street Part One: 1994 is the first part of a horror trilogy (all directed by Janiak) based on a series of teen horror novels by Goosebumps author, R. In short, Fear Street Part One: 1994 is a successor to Stranger Things and other popular geek properties that mine references to past pop-culture artifacts to fuel nostalgia. It’s progressive in its characterizations and storytelling, but downright grisly in its violence. It’s aimed at teenage viewers, but draws all its reference points from films that were made before its target viewers were born. It’s stylized, self-aware, has a dense storyworld mythology, and is endlessly nostalgic in its approach to genre and storytelling.
It was a big cheer moment, like we were at the production office and everyone just started clapping and cheering and it was amazing! And so then everyone was sold that this could happen.Fear Street Part One: 1994 embodies many of the core interests of contemporary streaming entertainment. They wanted to prove me wrong so they had this idea that they were gonna throw watermelons through this bread slicer and they were convinced that it wouldn’t work, and the watermelon just went right through. This is a little unbelievable.’ And I was like, ‘It’s f*cking cool so we’re gonna do it!’ And then they bought a bread slicer. “There were all of these conversations with our art department - with Scott, with Sean, with Jess - being like, ‘I don’t think a human head would really do that.’ They were like getting at me! They were like, ‘I don’t know. RELATED: 'Fear Street': Olivia Scott Welch and Kiana Madeira Explain How Their On-Set Process Mirrored Sam and Deena's Connectionįrom there it was on to a conversation regarding the plausibility of putting a human head in a bread slicer. It was one of those things that when you’re reading it, it’s horrible, but then you get closer to doing it and you’re like, ‘Wait, this is actually crazy,’ and, ‘How are we gonna do this?’”
I just think it’s a cool image and so at one point we just started riffing on what could happen in that sequence and then we came up with the bread slicer. “I have these weird things that I like, like I like the idea of cake mixing with blood. Once Kate landed in the bakery, that gave Janiak the opportunity to make the most of a certain gory idea that appealed to her: We kind of went through this whole thing of, the characters have different areas of the store that they’re in and they’re all trying to protect Sam, and Kate ended up in the bakery.”
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Part of the fun of the 90s movie for me was being able to kind of take suburbia and take these places that are really familiar and tear them apart and destroy them, so I loved the idea of being able to be in the grocery store. I remember that we were very excited about having our climax of the 90s take place in a grocery store. They can’t possibly kill her off now, right? Think again.ĭuring our hour-long Collider Witching Hour conversation with director Leigh Janiak, a top priority was asking about the genesis of that particular moment.
Here’s a character with an infectious fight and energy you can’t get enough of and we’re in the tail end of the movie. Not only is it a wildly gnarly and creative kill scene - an unforgettable all-timer - but it’s also an especially emotional moment because Rehwald delivers so big as Kate.
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