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From the twisted mind of R.L. Stine, Fear Street: Prom Queen was released on Netflix on May 23, 2025. It is the fourth installment in the Fear Street film series. Rated R for strong bloody violence and gore, teen drug use, language and some sexual references.
Welcome back to Shadyside. In this next installment of the blood-soaked Fear Street franchise, prom season at Shadyside High is underway and the school's wolfpack of It Girls is busy with its usual sweet and vicious campaigns for the crown. But when a gutsy outsider is unexpectedly nominated to the court, and the other girls start mysteriously disappearing, the class of '88 is suddenly in for one hell of a prom night.
Directed by Matt Palmer from a screenplay he co-wrote with Donald McLeary, based on the novel The Prom Queen (1992) from the Fear Street book series. Produced by Chernin Entertainment. The film stars India Fowler, Suzanna Son, Fina Strazza, David Iacono, Ella Rubin, Chris Klein, Ariana Greenblatt, Lili Taylor and Katherine Waterston.
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Jack-O's Review: Not as original or inventive as the 2021 Fear Street trilogy but I had fun with Prom Queen. There were 2 good gory kills (stumpy was hilarious, and the jock who picks on the DJ) the others were boring and bland, the killers mask and rain coat look very American Horror Story, I liked the pretty lead friend characters but hated the bitchy mean girls and shitty jock douchebags, fantastic 80's music hits, the dance-off was bad but I loved the reveal and tacked on predictable ending. If your a hardcore horror fan looking for the next big slasher this is not it. It's more entry level horror for teens, an R rated Goosebumps episode." ★★ = Fair @trickhorrortreater
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"Fear Street: Prom Queen comes to Netflix laden with lore, but the movie itself is an indifferently made and stiffly acted YA exercise that struggles to sustain even a halfhearted level of engagement. The setting, the script, and the horror scenes are all weak, leaving a pair of supporting performances as the film’s only engaging elements. Turn down this date and spend your night with one of the better, more entertaining ’80s teen slashers it aspires to be." 4/10 Bad IGN.com
"Like the previous Fear Streets, it’s a witless pastiche, but unlike them, it’s borderline unwatchable, a vaguely directed, vaguely plotted, vaguely scripted mess of sloppy audio, sloppy editing and sloppy whatever it is a grip does. But hey, the movie makes lots of references! Most blatantly to seemingly dozens of pop hits of the ’80s, which hold the movie together like watered-down rubber cement. Oh, and there’s plenty of nods to all the influential horror movies you should be watching instead of this one...director Matt Palmer makes sure the movie has a grainy ’80s look, like it was run through a Camp Crystal Lake Instagram filter. But, the sickos will ask, what about the kills? Well, you’ll see a bunch of ’em, and one might be tempted to praise the gore and practical effects if they weren’t so stylistically off the rack – decapitations and disembowelments have never been so dull. Its stabs at comedy are even more listless, the plethora of non-laughs undermining any sense of dread the movie might’ve churned up. It also features one of the stupidest dance-off sequences ever committed to film. Prom Queen is a bad movie, Netflix at its dreckiest. I wanted to push it into a threshing machine. That’d be a worthy kill." SKIP IT. Decider.com
"It’s not entirely fair to bash Fear Street: Prom Queen for its refusal to knock off legendary horror titles, but it does feel dually lazy to not provide a novel approach to an ’80s-set slasher while also refusing to tactfully engage with the tropes that make those titles so memorable...In reality, the film’s lighting is oppressively dark in a way that almost obscures any of the ’80s-appropriate flourishes installed by the production designers, whether in the school’s eerie boiler room or the decked-out gymnasium...Void of genre send-ups, visual finesse, ’80s styling, or horror’s requisite bloodshed, Fear Street: Prom Queen doesn’t even possess the distinction of attempting to emulate horror films from the decade it’s set in. This Netflix Original dud could only ever aspire to be a copycat killer, but even then, it doesn’t have the guts. Fear Street: Prom Queen fumbles the crown." Grade: D AVClub.com
"...the 1988-set slasher opts for shallow pastiche, bland kills, and a grating cast of characters. It makes for an excruciating return to the cursed town of Shadyside...The period setting is pastiche and meaningless, a slew of loud ’80s tropes and cliches. It’s a generic slasher that could’ve been set anywhere, at any time, just dressed up in embarrassing ’80s drag. Those hoping for anything coming close to matching the creative bread slicer death of Fear Street 1994 will be disappointed to find your run-of-the-mill maiming and slicing here, played up to gory effect through CGI and some practical. There’s zero tension to the kills, either, a surprise coming from the director behind the intense thriller Calibre...Prom Queen can’t quite decide if it wants to be a mean-spirited slasher or prom horror camp and instead just dials up the superficiality and cruelty of youth to an unengaging degree. The climax desperately wants to embrace camp but is too dour to make it work...It’s a poor imitation and a frustratingly tedious patchwork of much better slashers that came before. This prom is worth skipping." ★½ Bloody-Disgusting.com
"This is the kind of horror flick where anything vaguely pointy can impale you if you land on it the wrong way, or falling backwards into any old circuit breaker will shoot deadly lightning through your body. In those intermittent moments, Prom Queen delivers, though sadly nothing will top the bread-machine kill from Part I...It’s when the film tries to slow down and take its myriad plot threads seriously that even the brisk 90-minute runtime starts to feel long...Fear Street started as a series that tried to reinvent the wheel, even just by dint of its structure and nods to the innate curse of marginalization; this is empty-headed, straightforward slasher schlock on purpose. That’s all well and good in some contexts, but if that’s what you want, why not just watch one of the classics instead?" ★★ RogerEbert.com
"If Prom Queen has one thing going for it, it's that it doesn't shy away from bloody kills, and it appears the majority of them are accomplished with practical make-up effects rather than weightless digital gore. But after a while, even that starts to lose its charm...Not helping matters is a severely lackluster script that fails to inject anything of substance. Prom Queen is neither funny nor scary, and it sure seems like it should've at least attempted to try to be one of those things if not both...As a big fan of the original trilogy, I kept waiting (and hoping) for Fear Street: Prom Queen to win me over. Yet the film remains curiously lifeless, and not even the presence of dependable, talented people like Lili Taylor and Katherine Waterston (sporting appropriately huge '80s hair) can save such a disappointing affair. After the original Fear Street trilogy, I was itching to return to Shadyside. It was not worth the wait." 4 out of 10 SlashFilm.com
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