Of course, there's some classic R.L. Stine twists that keep you guessing until the very end...

| Mar 31, 2023

As for “1978”, it manages to be both nostalgically transporting and needlessly irritating.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 17, 2022

A homage to '70s slasher horror films full of gore and carnage. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 21, 2022

Fear Street is not just trading in nostalgia, though. It has its own unique tone, and every chance it gets either subverts or deepens classic horror tropes...

| May 23, 2022

1978 ends by bringing the two stories together, giving us more questions than answers, but making us all the more excited for the final installment of the trilogy.

| Oct 9, 2021

Less a riff on slasher tropes than '1994,' but instead a straight-up throwback. And quite a good one at that.

| Oct 7, 2021

...a slow-moving endeavor that fares especially poorly within its deliberate and excessively familiar first half...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 3, 2021

That's the most shocking thing about this film: Not even the younger campers are spared the ax, and it hits just as hard as the hazings, bug-related pranks and (eep) compound fractures.

| Sep 8, 2021

This is at its strongest at its simplest, when it revels in its teens running from a psycho-killer. It only falters when it distracts from this with the franchise's madcap over-arching plot.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 31, 2021

Can't live up to the highs of part one, but on its own merits, it's a competent homage to the genre's heyday through the lens of Stine's best-selling YA series.

| Aug 18, 2021

A flawed but entertaining supernatural slasher epic, one that is more intriguing for its thematic and structural ambitions than its execution of horror fundamentals.

| Original Score: C- | Aug 5, 2021

Seen in succession, the film triptych develops into something more interesting than its individual parts and the passing pleasures of an on-the-nose pop soundtrack.

| Aug 2, 2021

This movie is actually longer than Part One, but it doesn't feel like it. It's bloody and exciting and it feels brisk. It also feels like the perfect set-up for Part Three.

| Aug 1, 2021

"Fear Street Part Two: 1978" repeatedly gets bogged down by its music and the atmosphere but earns its rightful place alongside the sleepaway camps and the crystal lakes.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 30, 2021

So much of the trilogy is dedicated to expositional scenes laying down the foundations of Shadyside's history, there's too much that's admirable in theory and flat on screen.

| Jul 30, 2021

A few issues notwithstanding, 1978 still ends up being a deliciously brutal romp and an applaudable throwback to beloved horror movies of old.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Jul 28, 2021

Fear Street Part Two: 1978 improves slightly over its predecessor, although I still struggle with my cool indifference to its post-Stranger Things algorithmic nostalgia calculations.

| Jul 28, 2021

As love letters to 1970s and '80s slashers go, this is one of the best I've seen outside of 2015's The Final Girls.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 26, 2021

Compared with 1994, in 1978, the kills were more shocking, the atmosphere more tense, the characters more believable and well-rounded, and the world-building more thoughtful.

| Jul 24, 2021

Fear Street Part Two is far stronger than its first. It's gripping, keeps you on your toes, and tells a story you get invested in. It feels more like a love letter to the 70s slashers.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 24, 2021