![]() The curse, with the lines it draws between Sunnyvale and Shadyside, has real, devastating repercussions that play out on a character level.Īt Camp Nightwing, Sunnyvale and Shadyside are thrown together, heightening the stakes of the tension between them. Another Shadysider reveals her self-harm scars. Sunnyvale girls torture Ziggy just because they can. 1978 is a gorefest in all the obvious ways, but it also deeply disturbs with the violence it showcases beyond the actual curse. Her pursuers are a group of campers led by mean girl Sheila ( Chiara Aurelia), who proceeds to have Ziggy strung up by her wrists on the very tree where Fier was hung, taking a lighter to Ziggy’s arm. Her foil is her younger sister Ziggy ( Sadie Sink), a wild camper who we first meet running through the woods. Tommy Slater (McCabe Slye) is just a nice, goofy boy dating Cindy Berman (Emily Rudd), a goody-two-shoes camp counselor who definitely doesn’t believe in the witch’s curse and does believe she’ll escape the darkness of Shadyside one day. We’ve already met this killer in 1994, but we get to see him before Sarah Fier flipped his switch. We then spend most of the movie on that day in 1978, a sunny, mostly adult-free camp turned upside down by an axe-wielding killer. Berman, eventually persuaded by the power of teen gay love, relents and tells Deena and Josh the story of the worst day of her life. Berman to share anything she knows about Sarah Fier, the curse, and the connection between what happened at Nightwing and what’s happening now. ![]() Shadyside and Sunnyvale have been locked in an ongoing conflict since the 17th century, specific patterns repeating and holding Shadysiders in a particular chokehold of violence and tragedy.ĭeena, desperate to save Sam, who is freshly possessed and tied up so she can’t do any murders, pleads with C. The clocks make for excellent set dressing - visually and sonically disturbing - but also perfectly symbolize the cyclical nature of the mythology at the heart of this story. And her house is full of an absurd amount of clocks, including several with specific alarms alerting her to her meticulous daily routine, which includes cooking herself a frozen dinner and checking all the locks in the house. She has one friend and one friend only: her dog Major Tom. A wall calendar marks the days since Camp Nightwing’s horrific massacre (over 5,000 at this point). ![]() Berman’s residual trauma is on full display right away. Berman (Gillian Jacobs), which is honestly a pretty rude thing to do to someone they know is a survivor of a mass murder event, but I digress. The movie begins shortly after we left off in 1994. But 1978 lags in comparison to its lead-in, bogged down by repetitive exposition and expending too much effort cultivating an air of intrigue around what’s ultimately a pretty straightforward mythology. Stylistically, it’s another winner, boasting a clear visual aesthetic and classic slasher scenarios. Part two riffs on the original Friday The 13th movie with its summer camp setting, and we trade in the 90s nostalgia of the first Fear Street for late-70s nostalgia. Hello my fellow Fear Streeters! We’re back with an in-depth look at Fear Street: 1978, the second movie in this Netflix horror trilogy. There are significant spoilers for Fear Street: 1978 below! For a recap/analysis of the first movie in the trilogy, click here. The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now.
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