As the last movie has left Sam (Olivia Scott Welch) a raging maniac, Deena (Kiana Madeira) and Josh (Benjamin Flores jr) take her to Ziggy Berman (Gillian Jacobs), the only woman who has seen the witch Sarah Fier (Elizabeth Scopel) and lived to tell about it. Ziggy relates them her story from back in 1978, when she (played in the flashback by Sadie Sink) and her sister Cindy (Emily Rudd) were at Nightwing summer camp, the place where kids from Shadyside and Sunnyvale live out their rivalry every summer. At first, everything seems normal - until the camp nurse Mary Lane (Jordana Spiro) violently attacks Cindy's boyfriend Tommy (McCabe Slye), claiming it's better to kill him now before he can kill - even if nothing could be further from mild-mannered Tommy. Fortunately the nurse can be overcome before she can as much as harm Tommy and is safely locked up. When Cindy, Tommy, and their friends Alice (Ryan Simpkins) and Arnie (Sam Brooks) search the nursing station and find her diary that's full of black magic symbolism. They decide to search the woods for Sarah Fier's house, using a map from the diary - and even succeed, but then Tommy goes mental, kills Arnie and goes after Cindy and Alice with an axe, but they can save themselves into some caverns that are somehow cut off from Tommy. Problem is, now Tommy goes to camp to presumably kill all the other kids - at least those from Shadyside it later turns out. When the girls search the caverns for an exit, they find a big blob at the center of it - but also an exit through the camp's outhouse, where Ziggy makes a desparate and ultimately futile attempt to save them, and she soon finds herself on the run from Tommy. Cindy soon finds another way out, and just in time as Tommy was about to kill Ziggy, but she decapitates him. Alice soon catches up with Cindy, and rather by accident she has found Sarah Fier's cut-off hand - and as per legend if the hand is reunited with Sarah's body, the curse on Shadyside will end. So the three girls go search for her grave, but when they find it and try to dig up her corpse, they only find a stone saying "the witch will live forever". Ziggy accidently bleeds on thehand, and now killers past grow out of the blob with the express purpose of killing her, and everybody who gets in their way. So Cindy, Alice, an Ziggy are brutally stabbed to death - but enter Nick (Ted Sutherland), Ziggy's love interest, who uses rudimentary CPR to bring Ziggy's body back to life within half a minute, despite her multiple stab wounds to vital organs.

Back in the now (as in 1994), Deena and Josh tell Ziggy they know where Sarah's body is buried, so she gives them her hand, and all they have to do now is bury the two together - but of course it's not that easy ...

The intention of telling a multi-layered slasher to take the genre for its over-forulaic rules is of course an honourable one - but it's pretty much nixed by using every cliché in the book and by not showing any hindsight. That's not saying that Fear Street 1978 isn't an effective little thriller, it has all the suspense, the violence, the shocks in all the right places and it's cleverly linked to the previous episode, it just never tries to go beyond formula, and that way remains rather flat genre entertainment.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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