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Netflix’s ‘Fear Street’ Movies Have Been Rated “R” for “Strong Bloody Violence”!
Unlike the Goosebumps books, R.L. Stine‘s Fear Street novels were geared more towards a teen audience, and it looks like the property has done even more growing up over the years.
Directed by Leigh Janiak (Honeymoon) and based upon the groundbreaking teen horror Fear Street books by Stine, Netflix’s Fear Street Trilogy has officially been rated “R”!
Thus far we’ve been provided with ratings for two of the films…
- Fear Street Part 1: 1994 – “Rated R for strong bloody violence, drug content, language and some sexual content.”
- Fear Street Part 2: 1978 – “Rated R for bloody horror violence, sexual content, nudity, drug use, and language throughout.”
Stine had recently noted, “Fear Street fans are in for a treat – and some major surprises. Readers know that the book series is rated PG. But the movies are rated R. That means a lot more thrills – and a lot more terror! I have seen Leigh Janiak’s epic trilogy releasing on Netflix in July and I can tell you the scares and the SCREAMS are more than I ever expected.”
In the Fear Street trilogy, “In 1994, a group of teenagers discovers that the terrifying events that have haunted their town for generations may all be connected — and that they may be the next targets. Based on R.L. Stine’s best selling horror series, the trilogy follows the nightmare through Shadyside’s sinister history.”
Fear Street Part One: 1994 (July 2) – A circle of teenage friends accidentally encounter the ancient evil responsible for a series of brutal murders that have plagued their town for over 300 years. Welcome to Shadyside.
Cast includes:
- KIANA MADEIRA
- OLIVIA SCOTT WELCH
- BENJAMIN FLORES JR.
- JULIA REHWALD
- FRED HECHINGER
- ASHLEY ZUKERMAN
- MAYA HAWKE
- DARRELL BRITT-GIBSON
- JORDANA SPIRO
- JORDYN DiNATALE
- JEREMY FORD
Fear Street Part Two: 1978 (July 9) – Shadyside, 1978. School’s out for summer and the activities at Camp Nightwing are about to begin. But when another Shadysider is possessed with the urge to kill, the fun in the sun becomes a gruesome fight for survival.
Cast includes:
- SADIE SINK
- EMILY RUDD
- RYAN SIMPKINS
- McCABE SLYE
- TED SUTHERLAND
- JORDANA SPIRO
- GILLIAN JACOBS
- KIANA MADEIRA
- BENJAMIN FLORES JR.
- ASHLEY ZUKERMAN
- OLIVIA SCOTT WELCH
- CHIARA AURELIA
- JORDYN DiNATALE
Fear Street Part Three: 1666 (July 16) – The origins of Sarah Fier’s curse are finally revealed as history comes full circle on a night that changes the lives of Shadysiders forever.
Cast includes:
- KIANA MADEIRA
- ASHLEY ZUKERMAN
- GILLIAN JACOBS
- OLIVIA SCOTT WELCH
- BENJAMIN FLORES JR.
- DARRELL BRITT-GIBSON
- SADIE SINK
- EMILY RUDD
- McCABE SLYE
- JULIA REHWALD
- FRED HECHINGER
- JORDANA SPIRO
- JORDYN DiNATALE
Janiak said in a recent statement, “As a filmmaker making Fear Street, but also just as a movie lover, I was so excited to pay homage to some of the great eras of horror movies. For 1994, Scream stood above all rest — it’s peak ’90s horror and, I think, one of the most brilliant movies ever made, period. Then for 1978, I got to look at the heyday of slasher films — Friday the 13th, Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street. For 1666…I found the best inspiration for me lay in the beautiful world made rotten of Terence Malick’s The New World.”
In addition to Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Universal Monsters movie Wolf Man, Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) has also joined the cast of Weapons, THR has announced tonight.
Weapons is the new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), with Julia Garner joining the previously announced Josh Brolin (Dune 2).
The upcoming Weapons is from writer/director Zach Cregger, who will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.
The Hollywood Reporter teases, “Plot details for Weapons are being kept holstered but it is described as a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”
Cregger was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The award-winning group’s self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC-TV and Fuse. He was also a series regular on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC series “Guys with Kids” and the TBS hit series “Wrecked,” and was featured in a recurring role on the NBC series “About a Boy.”
Weapons will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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