FEAR STREET 1994 AND FEAR STREET 1978 MOVIE REVIEWS | Double Toasted 

This movie is when RL Stine said hold my beer to Stephen king

"A training bra for Stephen King" 🤣🤣 As someone who started with Goosebumps, moved to Fear Street, and then became a Constant Reader, the lie detector test determined you are telling the truth.

I remember being a preteen and reading the Fear Street books. They blew my mind at the time. They were so much more violent then Goosebumps, so much darker. The heroes almost never won. In Goosebumps, yeah you could get the bad ending but most of the time the bad guy lost. In Fear Street the evil almost always won. Most kids I knew read Goosebumps but it almost felt like a secret club of us read Fear Street.

I am absolutely OBSESSED with these movies right now. Especially 1978. They're very heavy handed but also a ton of fun.

Shadyside sounded like a retirement community to me lol

As someone who grew up reading these books. They were always more violent and for an older audience than Goosebumps was. Netflix just took that to the next level and went full R-rated with it.

This is what happens when you take a typical slasher movie like scream or Friday the 13th with a Steven king/RL stine twist and that's awesome

That bread slicer kill from 1994...HOLY SHIT MAN! To quote Dead Meat, thats the golden chainsaw of this series so far

The Friday the 13th homage or tribute has become a genre in of itself in horror due to these anthology series

I loved 1994 except Deena. She got her friends killed and even almost got her little brother killed for Sam. Deena was just unlikeable.

Kate really was "a cut above the rest."

i enjoyed the 1978 more than 1994 but it's still a good slasher film. I hope the 1666 will have the same vibe like The witch (2015) film, i know it's not a slasher genre film but at least it will give us something new and a way more darker tone of the story.

I was an avid fan of the Fear Street series in my youth, but I never found anyone else familiar with it-even after Goosebumps gained widespread popularity. It’s strange hearing people suddenly talking about it. In any case, yes, the books were unapologetically violent-one of this reasons I loved reading them as a 13-year-old. From what I gather from the movie reviews, it sounds like the adaptation toned down the violence, if anything.

I loved reading the Fear Street books when I was a teen back in the 90's. The great thing about them, was everyone who lived on Fear Street were crazy. Also, identity politics didn't matter back then. I'm sure that will change now. Christopher Pike teen books were the other books I read.

My favorite Fear Street books was the Fear Street Saga series.

This man made Goosebumps??? Yeah I gotta watch these

Something I dont see a lot of people commenting on is the editing in 1978, when the guy is using the axe to break down the door, the editing and filming is a lot like Kubrick's Shining

Middle school me used to live for Fear Street. I had fun with Goosebumps, but after my first Fear Street book there was no going back. I was so scared after each one and told myself I wouldn’t read any more. It wasn’t long before I was back on my bullshit and reading the next one though 😂

I loved Fear Street when I was a teenager, the covers always caught my interest and the stories were always engaging and spooky.

I watched this last night and I was intrigued. I had almost all the R.L Stein and Sweet Valley High books as a youth so this was nostalgic for me ☺️. I can’t wait to watch 1978 tonight.

They literally killed the Black and Asian kids in the SAME SCENE...

Yea the 1994 had a nod to screen and the 1978 was a nod to jason.

As much as I love and adore "Carrie", nothing shook me to my ultimate core like the Fear Street series did. 😱 I don't remember what the specific book was called, and I don't think I ever finished it either, because the first few pages just traumatized me so much, but it had something to do with a girl being in love with a seemingly perfect boy, believing wholeheartedly that he returned her feelings, and when she gets accused of being a witch one day, he turns on her, and... idk, just the way it was told, it was so impactful, because at the time, I just watched nothing but Disney movies and lived and breathed happy endings. It blew my mind to realize that not everyone... is what they appear to be, probably what may have been the very beginning to my trust issues I struggle with to this day. 😅 Like the idea of a loved one, someone you trusted completely, being so unbelievably cruel to you for no reason at all just made me sick to my stomach. 🤢 Getting PTSD flashbacks, just thinking about it, tbh. *shivers* 🤕

There’s strong language, sexual situations and graphic violence. But, at the end of the day, these movies feel like an extended episode of Goosebumps covered in a gritty exterior. Not bad, but definitely was not impressed.

"Oh teenagers and takes place in the past" - Oh that's Stranger Things.. how did I know, that seems to be every critic's answer for anything that takes place in the past and has teenagers, sure it doesn't help that one of the actors is in stranger things

I've never even heard of this series. Guess I was a Goosebumps kid... now I gotta watch

Huh kids weren't always fine in Goosebumps

Teenager walking down the street RL Stine: *ON SITE*

I knew they were gonna roast this joint Fear Street was good but I like the 2nd movie better.

I'm not usually into slasher type movies. But I love that this has more supernatural and mystery elements. Fun films.

Part 1 was a goody scream without the clever plot. Part 2 was Stine taking 30 years of pent up rage for kids who laughed at how silly his books were and let it rip. Had literally no plot. Oddly, I think part 2 should have aired first. It establishes more of the universe and it retcons several plot points.

I read the Fear Street books and these movies are definitely following suit. Fear Street books were more mature, had more blood and gore. People see R.L. Stine and immediately think goosebumps and expect it to be kiddy horror or just a spooky story but if you read Fear street you know he’s more of a horror writer than what was represented in Goosebumps.

LOL Josh wasn't a creep, he was literally the expository through line to give everyone vital information. They just put the whole guise of nerd on him, but remember, its 1994. Nowadays we all have information literally at our finger tips (Smartphones). Josh was just ahead of the curve.

It’s 1978* guys, but I’m looking forward to your review as always!

I didn't read the books, but so far, 1978 is the best. The characters and story were much more fleshed out and the performances by Sadie Sink (who we already know is talented) and Emily Rudd elevated the movie further. 1994 was solid as well, but not as good. It should be interesting what 666 will be like.

I liked 1994 way better than 1978. It was a bit more believable and at least a few characters to root for, but all the kids in 1978 were annoying as fuck. And what kind of camp are they binding your wrists and tying you to a tree? What in the caucasian hell type of shit was that???

I used to love fear street, I think I've read this whole series more than a few times. And watching this trailer I was so excited like oh boy, it's on lol then when I watched the movies I was like, wtf lol this definitely ain't your mother's fear street lol but I'm gonna keep watching, it's good!!

I wouldn’t be a rapper today if wasn’t for R.L. Stein. I read goosebumps as a kid which led to me writing short scary stories for class in elementary. Which read to lyricism as a pre teen til today! He’s my fave author of all time

when martin said "when they got hired" about the killers, i just thought of a really cool 'horror' movie where killers try to outkill each other to get hired to be killers of a town...does that exist??

As someone who is easily squeamish, I found the excess violence endearing and even somewhat humorous because the films did not take itself too seriously. It's not like watching the Hatchet movies.

So are they going to tell they story of Simon Fear and horrors he unleashed on the town and the curse surrounding the Fear name. I remember loving the first horror.

I was obsessed with the Fear Street books as a kid. The second movie is my favorite so far.

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6:41. Goosebumps books were the only books I liked to read as a kid. I read over 30 of them. I was sick and tired of the boring books they made us read in school 😭

The first kid movie kill that shocked me was in Summer of 84. The kills here were good but didn’t give me the shock like in Summer of 84.

The screen writer took his own liberties with the books... typical Hollywood. Not RL Stine fault for the crazy shit.

I think I had like 60 titles including the Fear Street cheerleaders trilogy and the first Fear Street saga trilogy, which these films borrow alot of the content from. Def the most brutal books in the series as well.

RL Stine vs Tim Burton vs Steven King whose greater at creating "gothic" horror meaning scary but entertaining.

I thought 1994 was "meh" BUT 1978 really turned it around and 1666 was a little slow but the 2nd and 3rd act was great!👍

So I'm watching it now, and I wasn't expecting something from RL Stine to be so.. mature

You can't say it's for teens and adults shouldn't expect to be into this when it's rated R. It is for adults. In fact it's clearly for the adult audience that grew up with Fear Street.

I turned off FS 1994 when they started doing the annoying back to back playlist shit. Netflix 80s/90s nostalgia shows feel artificial and cliché, they cater to the expected millennial/post millennial fetishized superficial aspects of those decades' aesthetic, but they forget about real details of everyday things, from something as basic as hair styles, to the subtextual socio-political issues and how they affect people's identity. In a way Netflix's retro 80s/90s aesthetic is its own genre, "late 20th century exaggerated fetish." Like That 70's Show it feels like a gag, instead or an earnest attempt at depicting a period.

The second was 🔥🔥🔥

Thank you for reviewing these, Im absolutely loving the horror cheese! I grew up with R,L Stine and shows like Are you afraid of the dark. I love this shit!

Martin: "I had money on you😒, get up!" @10:21 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I’m very happy the Fear Street movies are serious Rated R movies based on the R.L. Stine Fear Street books.

I loooved the fear street books growing up. I still have mine.

Some of the kills here were high tier. The very definition of a high rental for me.

1994 to much of a love story got on my nerves

Can’t wait for you to review Fear Street Part 3: 1666

The second one better than the first one but the review better than both of them

I loved Fear Street and read the Fear Street Saga. So many of his books made up my childhood. I started with Goosebumps, but when I read Fear Street, I loved the cliffhanger endings for him

I started reading Fear Street at twelve when my older sister's friend left a copy at our house, completely bypassing Goosebumps. The main characters almost never made it out alive from what I remember. While the movies aren't based on any book, it's got elements from a lot of them. But yeah, most of the characters in the movies are assholes, in the books the main characters were people you cared about and there were more twist in the books then there were in the movies.

Big thanks to Martin for offhand recommending American Horror Story 1984 in the stream. Never really been an R Murphy fan, but I watched me 5 episodes straight of that shit. Good call, sir.

I still need to watch pt 2. They killed my favorite character in part 1 in a cool way though

This trilogy was GREAT for what it was - a campy horror saga that doesn’t take itself too seriously yet pays homage to the genre. I loved it; not sure bout the whole lesbian love story being the crux of it but it made sense within the context of the story. It was a great series nonetheless and a lot of fun …. Even tho the ending twist was fairly obvious

1978 not 1987 😂 but I thought both of them were alright, nothing too special but enjoyable.

Goosebumps was a huge part of my childhood.

I loved the Goosebumps books. When I was in school, I belonged to the Goosebumps club where you would get a set of three or four books and candy shaped like eyeballs, spiders, and things like that. I loved getting them every time then I moved up to Fear Street. My favorite Fear Street book is The Runaway and I read it like once a year. The first Goosebumps book is the first book I ever read in one day and I was really proud of myself back then lol. Oh to have the low bar of a fourth grader. My mom was a fourth grade teacher and she took some of the Goosebumps books I was going to donate and used them as prizes. Those things were like hotcakes!

Yooooooo I literally just finished watching the last one 😭😭 the matrix glitching again

Oh and don't forget R.L. Stine also did The Haunting Hour which arguably had darker stories than Goosebumps despite being aimed at kids

1978 my fav so far though I enjoyed both looking forward to 1666. For sure didn't get Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark vibe from this that movie was boring. I agree with Chris the Stephen King bullies were too much in 1978 they annoyed me. You can tell the many horror influences here. Which I liked. They definitely had nudity in the film. It wasn't egregious but there were quick glimpses. The soundtrack was dope for both films there was nothing about the cast that was on the nose none of the actors were known minus Mya Hawke & Sadie Sink. Martin such a drip swear I feel sometimes him & Korey just too old to be doing some of these reviews

The second one was good. The first one had to many unnecessary jump scares and sound effects.

Always, and I MEAN ALWAYS, remember slasher films mean stupid people making stupid decisions, everyone wants to dance with the devil UNTIL the devil shows up, now they want to run. I like it.

1978 > 1994

After watching all three, I really liked 1978 the most. It had great pacing throughout and the nod to Friday the 13th was so strong, I liked it better than the Friday the 13th remake. Sadie Sink was great, and fitted perfectly. It was distracting at first, but then all I saw was her character. Great job.

The 1994 one is literally adhd personification. I LOVE the music. But can you play a whole song, movie?? Two seconds in and they change the music. Over and over. Ugh. And the dumb, you had an effective weapon, so drop it and run away cliche! I might finish that craptastic movie, eventually. Maybe I’ll give the second one a watch.

I love these movies even though they are corny. I can’t wait for the third

I read that it's nothing like the books.

I'm can't wait to hear what the music playlist for the 1666 movie lol 😆

Jurassic Park needs to take notes from 1978. KIDS NEED TO DIE WHEN THEY HAVE IT COMING😂😂😂

I enjoyed the fear street movies. Hopefully the third one is good.

I only watched the second one. It was straight up horrible. People lost their damn minds talking about these movies being good.

Spoiler alert: None of the black kids die. 😁

I remember my gma taking me to thrift store as a kid and I would buy goosebumps books for 50 cents

Corey really loves spinning these counter-factual narratives doesn't he. R.L. Stine had already published more than a dozen Fear Street books before even starting Goosebumps.

Damn I'm watching the first one right now and didn't know RL Stine wrote it. Glad he's still terrorizing people

I never even heard of fear street Before the movie.

The main thing I disagree with is the comparison to Stranger Things. The two properties have like nothing in common and I wish people would stop calling everything in the past with teenagers Stranger Things lol. Oh, and that it’s Goosebumps (bc it’s not!) But I’m glad you had fun watching!!

I don’t understand why the Fear Street movies weren’t released to theaters after movie theaters reopened with less restrictions. A Quiet Place 2 and other movies were released on different dates after changed released dates.

I enjoyed both parts so far, but man I was frustrated as hell with the decisions that these characters were making. I think I said "run bitch" about 5 or 6 times in the 1978 part.

I like how they always play like half a second of a trailer and call it good 😂😂😂

Movies/TV shows need to knock it off with their soundtracks being someone shuffling through their Spotify playlist. I'm sick of it.

As far as I understand from others (I never read book series myself) they were kinda like Dark Shadows with this greedy centuries old war between aristocratic bloodlines. This one is more like It-remake on steroids and I prefer it that way.

So far, Fear street is leagues above any cw tween shit fest but that's not saying much. A song from the 90s interjects every 10 mins or so, the characters are not as thought out and logical as the book variants. I can't decide if they're purposely going for the 90s cheese angle or, are just shit when it comes to writing. The editing is too fast at times which makes it seem like the characters over talk the other characters. The speech and inflections even seem erratic or not fully developed yet in many scenes. The typical girl shriek that erodes any of the suspense that was trying to be created. The idiotic explanations for jock fueled assaults are ridiculous. The blatantly stupid police force and townsfolk. Either the town is cursed and everyone is somehow affected or the writing again, is just terrible. Gore wise it is pretty good and at least it's still mature to a degree. The dialogue though just kills whatever could have been good development for the character and plot. Overall I give this a legit 6/10. The main audience for this ranges from 13-20. Unless you're into rehashed horror themes, plots, exposition, and tween based bs then just skip this. Or watch it drink/high. In these matters who's to blame? The writers, producers, and or directors? It feels like they had something and yet, still succumbed to the pitfalls of book to show adaptations.

I was mad when Ziggy got killed!

The biggest difference to all the best movies that this copies, sorry, "homages", besides originality and quality. From the moment they are introduced, I wanted them to kill all the unbearably obnoxious characters and end it all at once... I don't even want to see the next two.

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"Rapport" is Juicy’s new favorite word!

Deena was the first female simp to every be portrayed in a movie