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Netflix’s ‘Fear Street’ Movies Have Been Rated “R” for “Strong Bloody Violence”!

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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.”

Writer in the horror community since 2008. Editor in Chief of Bloody Disgusting. Owns Eli Roth's prop corpse from Piranha 3D. Has four awesome cats. Still plays with toys.

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‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’ Adds “Chucky” Actor Teo Briones and More to Lead Cast

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Chucky Actor Teo Briones
Pictured: Teo Briones in "Chucky" Season Two

The Final Destination franchise is returning to life with Final Destination: Bloodlines. With filming now underway, THR reports that three actors have joined the lead cast, including “Chucky” actor Teo Briones.

Brec Bassinger (“Stargirl”) and Kaitlyn Santa Juana (The Friendship Game) join Teo Briones, who played Junior Wheeler in season two of “Chucky,” as the leads in the sixth installment of the horror franchise.

Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein (Freaks) are directing the fresh installment that also includes Richard Harmon (“The 100”, Grave Encounters 2), Anna Lore, Owen Patrick Joyner, Max Lloyd-Jones (The Book Of Boba Fett), Rya Kihlstedt (Obi Wan Kenobi), and Tinpo Lee (The Manor) among the cast.

Production is now underway in Vancouver.

What can we expect from the upcoming Final Destination 6? Speaking with Collider, franchise creator Jeffrey Reddick offered up an intriguing (and mysterious) tease last year.

“This film dives into the film in such a unique way that it attacks it from a different angle so you don’t feel like, ‘Oh, there’s an amazing setup and then there’s gonna be one wrinkle that can potentially save you all that you have to kind of make a moral choice about or do to solve it.’ There’s an expansion of the universe that – I’m being so careful,” Reddick teased.

Reddick continued, “It kind of unearths a whole deep layer to the story that kind of, yes, makes it really, really interesting.”

Final Destination: Bloodlines is written by Lori Evans Taylor (“Wicked Wicked Games”) and Guy Busick (Scream), with Jon Watts (Spider-Man: No Way Home) producing.

Producers on the new movie for New Line Cinema also include Dianne McGunigle (Cop Car) as well as Final Destination producers Craig Perry and Sheila Hanahan Taylor.

This will be the sixth installment in the hit franchise, and the first in over ten years. Each film centers on “Death” hunting down young friends who survive a mass casualty event.

The latest entry is expected in 2025, coinciding with the original film’s 25th anniversary.

 

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