The Fantasy Review’s review of Fear Street: Prom Queen (2025).
I still need to watch Midsommar and yet I chose to watch this trash.
Spoiler-Free Review of Fear Street: Prom Queen (2025)
The original Fear Street trilogy on Netflix was fantastic. The story over the whole three movies is one of the most enjoyable horror movie experiences of the past few years.
This spin-off, franchise-killing nonsense just took a massive dump on the great storytelling of the previous three movies. And there were no queer characters.
Fear Street: Prom Queen should be called “Prom Queen” and be its own shitty thing. The characters and the sets told us this movie was set in the same world, but absolutely nothing else did. I mean, I kept forgetting it was a Fear Street movie.
It didn’t have the same tone, intelligence, or anything great that the original trilogy came with. Prom Queen is not only a failed continuation of a franchise, but it’s also a failed movie, because there was nothing enjoyable here.
The characters were bland and forgettable. The kills were dull. The plot was… I don’t even remember.
The best thing Netflix can do now is forget they made this movie, hand the franchise back to people who know what they are doing, and either never make another Fear Street movie, or give us something new and exciting – or a fun twist on a classic tale, like they’ve done before.
If you’ve not watched Prom Queen yet, don’t bother. You’d be better off watching Prom Night (1980 or 2008 – who cares?), and that’s really saying something.
