Fear Street: Prom Queen Film Review

For some odd reason the Fear Street films released back in 2021 really caught fire when they were released weekly on Netflix. As such there was some hype when it was announced that there would be a new film coming out and what's more this film is meant to be more based off of the book that the film takes it's title from and given that I haven't seen a single one of the original films or read any of the books I thought that i'd check this film to see if it's any good or not and so then me as I review the film that is basically a more modern version of Prom Might with the film in question being called simply just "Fear Street: Prom Queen" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when a masked killer starts killing off all of the candidates from Prom Queen it's up to prom queen candidate Megan Rogers to find out who is doing these crimes before it's far to late. Now then in of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad but at the same time tho this films plot wasn't in particularly all that good either with this films plot feeling like the stereotypical eighties slasher film without realizing what it was that made those films so good in the first place with the films plot being a huge part of that as while it is a decent plot that could work as a throw back to movies like Terror Train or the original Prom Night for that matter the film adds quite literally nothing new to it's set up to make it's plot feel fresh again with it instead feeling tired and played out as while it did have all of the potential to be a really good plot if it actually tried to do something new with it's set up and yet by playing things a bit to safe for it's good it instead comes across as being generic as all of the elements that should have worked alot of the time just don't but when the film does try to do something new like having the victims all be candidates for prom queen which is a good idea it's also not one that's not really expanded upon all that much with the plot of this film also not really being really rather entertaining and as well as not really being really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is India Fowler as Lori Granger , Suzanna Son as Megan Rogers and Fina Strazza as Tiffany Falconer. Also starring in this film is David Iacono as Tyler Torres , Ella Rubin as Melissa Mckendrick , American Pie star Chris Klein as Dan Falconer , Ariana Greenblatt as Christy Renault , Lili Taylor as VP Dolores Brekenridge , Katherine Waterston as Nancy Falconer and Brennan Clost as Gerald.

Now then in of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us un this very film was in all honesty not that bad. With all of this films actors turning in some able performances in this film which was a little unexpected as really out of this films actors only two of them are fairly decently known with those being Chris Klein and Ariana Greenblatt and that's really it with the rest of this films actors being made of mostly unknown or at best very little known actors and as such it would have bee really foolish to expect some good -performances in them in this very film and yet that's exactly what we got with all of this films quite clearly trying there absolutely best to make this films script work for them however the issue comes from the fact that this films co-writer and director Matt Palmer really does have no clue whatsoever on how to get a good performance out of his actors however given that he's pretty much new to the world of directing this is forgivable as those are skills that he will naturally pick up as he makes more movies but it is something that does make this films acting hard to watch at times with the acting that's in this very film not really being heled by the fact that this films script is just so bad as it gives none of this films actors absolutely nothing to work with in of what it is that there respective characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does hard the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.

This films characters are just like the script in that there bad and generic as all of this films main characters are characters that have not only been done before in other and better slasher but they also have nothing that makes them feel new and unique. With al of the character types from eighties slasher being represented in this film only none of them have anything new or interesting added to them with the only exception being the character of Lori Granger who despite the typical good girl character who has to fight against prejudice due to her mother being insane and killing people which is a unique angle to take on what could have been seen as a being a really tired and worn out character trope only the film does nothing with it thus making it feel like something that was an afterthought as they do nothing with it other then mention a few times early on in the film and that's really it however she's gets the gold star treatment when compared to the rest of this films characters who are all just badly done stereotypes which does make the makers of this film seem lazy as it appears that they couldn't be bothered to come up with fresh and new characters or at the very least make the characters that they do have seem interesting and while i'm sure that these characters will make the crowd on both TikTok and Bluesky happy they are characters that need to have to something new added to them as given just how they are in this film there not that good this is despite the fact that alot of them are being portrayed by some really good actors yet even taking into that this films writers are fairly new writers as none of them even have a Wikipedia page for that matter they should still have taken the time to give us some decent characters in this film.

Unlike the previous three Fear Street films this one is actually based off of one of the Fear Streets book with the book being The Prom Queen. While it is hard to say if the book and this film are close to each other in of quality as the only thing that I can say for sure about the book is that they changed the name of the main character from Lizzie in the book to Lori in the film and that's really it but at the same time tho given that the previous three films didn't really adapt any of the book per-say instead just adapting the world that the books take place in it is odd that for this fourth film they would instead choose to adapt one of the books when the previous three films proved that you don't have to do that in order to make the film good with this film not really doing a good enough job of making people want to read the books as it just makes the books story which is pretty much the exact same one as the film seem dull and generic when the job of the adaption should always be not only to make the story more accessible to people but to also make people want to check out the source material and yet it's something that this film just doesn't do as instead it's more focused on really letting you know that it takes place in the eighties then it is in being a good adaption of the book with there being no reason to see which is better as just based off of a very quick reading from the book's Wikipedia page everything that happens in the film happens in the book which is great if you like a straight forward adaptation but what ight work in the book doesn't always work out in the adaptation but credit where it's due for still trying to make a direct adaptation of one of the books in this series as that is something that if done well could lead to future films or better yet a TV series that takes the exact same approach that this films takes by directly adapting one of the books and not just the world that the books take place in.

As was mentioned earlier on in this review this film is pretty much just copying both the original and the remake version of Prom Night. As both films take place at senior prom and both films have a killer that is directly related to one of the films main characters and heck both films even have a pretty decent soundtrack to it on top of that with the influence even extending to the films poster as there is a poster for this film that looks shockingly like the poster to the original Prom Night and while it's great that you want to show your influences for other horror movies in your horror movie but you have to be subtle about it because if not then all it will do is make people want to watch that film and not your film which is exactly the case with this film as it just reminds you that you could be watching a much more better horror film instead of making you focus solely on this film which is what it should have been doing in the first place and heck it even takes a little bit from the Prom Night remake as well by having the scene where the killer is arrested be a false ending with the kills then continuing when one of the main characters gets home which is just such a pointless thing to do as everybody would be expecting that given the fact that when the killer is masked there's twenty minuets of run time left and while having a false ending an be good as it then makes you wonder what's going to happen next in order for it to work there has to be some build up done all throughout the film which is something that's very sadly not even close to being the case with this film as it's more focused on being a new version of Prom Night then it is in being it's unique thing.

For some strange reason even tho this film is meant to have a mystery aspect to it the film not only doesn't give us any clues as to who the killer might be but it also reveals the killer to early into the films third act. Both of which are things that work against the film as without any clues or suspects for that matter us the audience can't figure it out for ourselves as to who the killer of this film is even meant to be in the first place which also robs the film of any replay ability as well as now we have no reason to back and watch the film to see if we've missed out anything important and with the killer being revealed for two early in the films third act there was no real build up to the reveal and not to mention the person who is the killer in this film doesn't make sense as he doesn't really have much in the way motive outside of wanting to make sure that two people get something that they wanted which is not only a really generic motive for a killer to have but it also makes the killer look dumb as the people that he killed still could have won and become Prom Queen as the ones who were deciding the votes were those in attendance so wouldn't it therefor make sense to kill those that are voting for the person other then who the killer wanted to to win instead of killing off those that are taking part in it in the first place and when they reveal that there's more then one killer that is something that whilst it is interesting it also comes out nowhere and comes into pay in the final scene of the film and therefor can't leave as much of an impact as an idea like that does tend to leave with all of these being issues that could be fixed not only with a simple rewrite of the films script but also by hiring writers that actually know what there doing.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and thirty minuets and one second. Which is pretty much the exact grand total running that you'd expect a film like this one to have with the film really having the right amount of pot there to really cover that amount of running time however it's not really used all that wisely as ether the plot of the film nor the films characters are developed well enough to the point where you actually care about them nor care about what's actually going on in the film as the film is more focused on doing everything as half baked as it could do that it just doesn't give us any kind of interesting characters now while it would be hard to say if the characters in the original trilogy where any better one thing is clear and that's the fact that due to the original trilogy of films having the same director and the same crew throughout all of them that means that the makers of the film could fall in love with the characters and there for make them more interesting where as here the films characters just feel like that there only there to be killed off with very few of them actually adding anything to the main plot of the film with even the films plot not really being that well developed either as even tho it is a decent plot it still just feels half baked like the makers of the film could have done with spending a few more months just working on the films plot to get as good as it was ever going to be with this running time and yet for whatever reason the makers of this film felt that it was OK as it is but I really will it that this film really does have some really dreadful pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a slasher film that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. With this films kills really being the true highlight of the film as we do get to see some pretty creative kills however just because the kills are creative and gory doesn't mean that the film itself is any good as the film still needs to have likable characters that make you feel sorry for them because of the fact that they've died and sadly that is where that this film falls flat as the characters aren't all that likable due to there being nothing about the characters personalities that makes them either likable or hate able and therefor when one of them does infact die all us the audience feel is nothing we don't feel happy that a character that we hate has been killed off nor do we feel sad when a character that we like has just been killed off either this is despite the fact that the film does have some really impressive gore effects to it with the example of this films gore being when one of the characters gets a part of his face sawed off which does look really cool and is a really inventive kill on top of all of that as well with that kill also being the films best kill as it is a memorable kill even if the character being killed off is totally forgettable which is something that's also true for all of the characters that do get killed of in this film as there's nothing all that memorable about them over then the way that they do get killed off which makes those characters seem all the more badly written then what they already are in the first place in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall while I can't say if this is the vest or even the worse of the Fear Street films what I can say is that this film does feel like the waste of a good idea as on paper this is an idea that should have worked and yet for one reason or another it just didn't work as well as it really should have done in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the and things that are in this very film in this very review and a such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old core of exactly a 5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Tenor , the official Fear Street fandom wiki page , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being the official Fear Street fandom wiki page simply because the official Fear Street fandom wiki page actually has images from this film really are up and on the official Fear Street fandom wiki page and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on the official Fear Street fandom wiki page were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.