This follow-up to Netflix's successful Fear Street trilogy takes us back to Shadyside in 1988 and specifically the two days leading up to a particularly fateful Prom Night. With a predictable jukebox hit playlist (Billy Idol, Bananarama, Roxette, Rick Astley, etc) and six heavily-stereotyped potential Prom Queens/victims, the story focuses on the stoic downtrodden underdog Lori, whose parents' past ties in to the wider mythology of Shadyside and Prom Night. In spite of being fairly and squarely aimed at young teenage girls in every respect, with the males mostly disposable and barely registering, from the horror genre point of view its (unusually for this franchise) straightforward kills and squelchy moments are executed with absolute relish. It has a very strong synth-driven 80s-style score, and it trots along at a fair lick for its ninety-minutes runtime. The film does not have an original bone in its body, and it is certainly not as much fun or effective as the first two Fear Street movies (1994 and 1978), but it works reasonably well as an homage to late-80s horror movies. If the prospect of an unlikely awkward dance-off set to Laura Branigan's Gloria is your idea of fun or not, then that may well be your testing point for this movie.
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