You know what that sound means? It's another
episode of Game for a Movie where we ask, are
you game for a movie? My name is Mike. I will
be your host this evening. We've got a interesting
one. That is what I will say for this one. This
was supposed to be either the Karate Kid 3 or
the next Karate Kid because of the Karate Kid
Legends that just came out. However, when a new
movie comes out and it is a bad movie, We need,
that takes precedence. So I could have watched
Karate Kid 3. I could have watched the next Karate
Kid. Both terrible. But this is a brand new movie.
Just recently came out. And it is terrible by
the Rotten Tomatoes numbers. But first we've
got to talk about what we are drinking. Today
I have got from Burial Brewing Company in Charlotte,
North Carolina. This is Surf Wax. Surf Wax is
an IPA. It is a delicious IPA. It's... fantastic
at the brewery and they just started really branching
out to stores so like they've been distributing
but it's been a little harder to get now you
can get it at most stores which is fantastic
uh burial is a little more on the fruity side
is what i will say but it is very good so a perfect
one for this movie fear street prom queen so
fear street prom queen um this is the fourth
in the fear street line of movies the first three
came out not that long ago um i want to get an
exact date because i i seem to be like forgetting
when these came out apparently they all came
out in 2021 and i feel like that is way too long
i thought these would came out like last year
but no apparently 2021 for the first three fear
street movies which i had a really good time
with i really enjoyed the fear street series
of films i thought they were they're not life
-changing but they are solid fun and a lot of
interesting fun kills because these are all horror
movies with the name fear street that should
make sense but they have some unique kills in
these movies um i will say that fear street prom
queen does continue that tradition of some interesting
kills however definitely doesn't produce to the
same level as the first three. So Fear Street
Prom Queen came out recently. It was released
to Netflix as the other three were as well. It
is an hour and 28 minutes of your time. However,
when I watched it, it was sitting at 37 % each
on the critics and audience score. As of today
recording, It is at 26 % critic score, 25 % audience
score. And that is 58 reviews, critic reviews,
500 plus audience reviews. So yeah, not a good
movie, and everybody seems to agree with that.
The basic premise of this, we're going to get
into the details, but let me give you a little
bit of the synopsis of it. 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 wolf pack
of It Girls is busy with its usual sweet and
vicious campaigns for the crown. But when a gutsy
outsider puts herself in the running and the
other girls start mysteriously disappearing,
the class of 88 is suddenly in for one hell of
a prom night. That's exactly what you get. There's
nothing else that should be surprising about
this. I thought it's a decent enough concept.
We've seen it before. It's prom night, essentially.
But it's just the prom queens that are disappearing
one by one and trying to figure out who did it.
This movie is based upon the Fear Street books
written by R .L. Stine. And that's part of the
reason why I was interested. It also has the
writers of Donald McCleary and Matt Palmer, and
Matt Palmer also directed it. If you are looking
for what else he has directed, it's nothing.
He has directed three shorts, another movie that
came out in 2018, and then he directed this one.
He's a writer of seven films. The other guy,
McCleary, he has written 12 films. That's basically
all you get, man, because none of these... are
what you would call world turners in this movie
film industry. The main characters in this are
India Fowler, Susanna Sun, Fina Stratza, and
then we've also got Katherine Waterston, Lily
Taylor, and Ariana Greenblatt. Those are the
big names. There's a lot of other people in this
movie that you may or may not know. A lot of
them probably you don't know. And I will say
that the... Ones you do know really haven't been
used very well. Ariana Greenblatt is probably
one of the bigger names lately, and she was in
the movie for maybe a whole 10 minutes. Katherine
Waterston had a little bit more to do, but not
by much. And then Lily Taylor was just kind of
background, it felt like. She plays the vice
principal, and they seemed like they were setting
her up for something big. then she just kind
of disappeared off the face of the planet so
normally at this point if it is a bad movie i
start talking about some of the awards has been
nominated for usually like worst of the year
that kind of stuff obviously this has come out
this year so i've got nothing yet on it uh so
we'll just jump into the details of this film
as always spoiler alert if you are interested
in watching this you can find it on netflix I'm
going to tell you that I'm going to save you
some time if you just listen to what I'm telling
you about it, because I'm going to go through
every detail on this thing. And yeah, here we
go. Fear Street Prom Queen. We get a little exposition
just to remind you about Shadyside. Shadyside
is the name of the town and it is next to Sunnyvale.
But unlike Sunnyvale, Shadyside is cursed. Like
this is the cursed town. This is the one. where
if you're a shady sider, that's used as derogatory
towards you. This is 1988 is the setup for this
whole thing, and there are six girls that are
running for prom queen. We get introduced to
all of them, kind of them as well as a descriptor
of who they are. Tiffany, she's the main person
of the Wolfpack of It girls. She is the mean
girl. She is the leader of the bunch. She is
played by Fina Stratza. Fina Stratza was in this,
an episode of FBI Most Wanted. Yeah, that's all
I really got. There's not a lot that she's been
in. So Fina Stratza, the mean girl. You can kind
of tell that she's going to be the main. I won't
say antagonist, but like the main fighting force
against our lead character. Next up, we get Christy.
Christy is played by Ariana Greenblatt. She's
kind of the bad girl. She's the drug dealer,
everything like that. She's not part of the wolf
pack, as they call them, of it girls. She's her
own kind of person. You know, sometimes she shows
up to school. Sometimes she doesn't. Everybody
in the school kind of wants her to win just to
be like. Haha, she won kind of thing. Except
for, of course, the vice principal who used to
run an all -girls school and kind of is a little
more stiff on the rules. Linda is part of the
Wolfpack. She's like the perfect grades girl.
She's kind of a little more nerdy and everything
like that. But she is the nerd of the Wolfpack.
Debbie is the mouth. That's what they've called
her. she's the one that's going to say the mean
things like Tiffany thinks it, but Debbie is
the one that like, it goes straight from brain
to mouth. Like it's, it's not, there's no stopping
point. And so she's always the one that's like
talking for the group kind of thing. And then
finally the other person in the wolf pack is
Melissa. She is the like lap dog. She is played
by Ella Rubin. I know the name, but I can't really
tell you. I've seen anything she's been in just
looking at all this stuff. But yeah, so she's
kind of like the lapdog. She's sucking up to
Tiffany. She kind of wants to be like in her
image almost. That's kind of her deal during
this thing. And our final candidate is our main
character, Lori. Lori is played by India Fowler.
She has been in really nothing. That's, yeah,
she kind of hasn't been in anything either. I
know these are supposed to be like high school
people and stuff like that, but it's kind of
you don't know who these people are at all. We
also meet Megan, who is Lori's best friend. She
does not care about prom. She's the alt girl.
She wears a suit to prom and goes with Lori.
So, yeah, that's kind of their thing. So one
of the things about Laurie that we kind of learn
is that she's kind of the outsider of the group.
She's not really, like, popular. She has her
reasons for running for prom queen that we learn
later in the movie. But for right now, all we
are told is that Laurie's mother may have stabbed
her father in the face and killed him. May have
done that. That wasn't proven. But that is...
what kind of puts her on the outs um she is the
cursed child of shady side this is all revealed
because they are just being mean to lori and
kind of trying to get her to drop out of being
prom queen and everything like that and megan
because she is megan gets really pissed at them
for doing this so she's like god you guys you've
done this to me she pulls out a cleaver and chops
off her hand and like it's blood everywhere yeah
it was fake and everything like that um she gets
sent to the principal's office but Lori is like
really appreciative of the fact that Megan has
her back so after school Megan and Lori they
go to a thrift store where they're talking about
prom game ready for it all that kind of stuff
and Megan is going to go with Lori even though
she's not really big into prom Lori also reveals
that she is working basically every night until
prom to pay for her dress she works at the local
restaurant She picked up extra shifts, so she's
going to be at the restaurant working to get
the money for her dress. And while she is there
the first time, the popular clique is there,
including the boyfriends. And there's one guy,
Tyler. She obviously has a crush on Tyler. Tyler
is like your popular jock guy. They have a little
bit of a history that we learned after this.
Because he left his jacket at the restaurant
and needed to come get it back after everybody's
left for the day. And so we learned that they've
known each other for a while. He knows that she
has big plans and it's not just like, oh, you're
going to be prom queen and everything like that.
Like she she has big plans to get out of Shadyside,
to get out of her mother's shadow and just live
this good future. And so Tyler's kind of like.
He's nice to her. There's a little bit of something
going on. We don't know exactly what. Of course,
Tyler is dating Tiffany because of course he
is. But there is a little something there. You
do get a little bit of a spark between these
two. We also get a little bit of Lori's home
life. Lori lives with her mother and her mother
works a lot. Obviously, because the father's
out of the picture, everything like that. Her
mother works a lot. And they're just kind of
passing ships in the night. There's a little
animosity probably between them. She's not really
a big deal. Like we see her once or twice as
her mom leaves. We also kind of see that Lori
lives across the way from Tiffany and the rest
of the Falconer family. The Falconers, the mom
and the dad are Nancy and Dan Falconer. The one
we really care about is Nancy is played by Catherine
Waterston, who is the daughter of Sam Waterston.
You recognize her from things like she was in
Inherent Vice, Fantastic Beasts, Where to Find
Them, Alien Covenant. She's one of the bigger
names in this film. She's one of the ones you'd
recognize. And maybe you like her enough that
she gets you into the theater for this one. Probably
not, but maybe. Dan Falconer is played by Chris
Klein. chris klein was oz in american pie he
was in the movie election just friends we were
soldiers he's been in a couple things like you
you've seen him in a couple of things um you
definitely kind of recognize him as well they're
both like that's my thing so both of these are
the big draws of the film is what i would say
them and lily taylor um get none of them are
going to get you into a theater. That's why this
feels perfect for Netflix. Basically, Nancy is
talking to Tiffany about how she is going to
have this amazing prom. Tiffany's already wearing
her dress, by the way. She's testing it out,
and Nancy's just so proud of her. You're going
to be prom queen, and you're going to have a
great prom, unlike me, who I didn't have a prom
because, you know, that woman killed her husband,
or killed her... I think baby daddy, actually.
I don't think they were actually together or
married or anything like that. Well, yeah, it's
prom, so they definitely weren't married. So,
yeah. Basically, Nancy blames Lori's mother for
not having her prom. And so... She's very excited
for Tiffany. Tiffany is going to have this amazing
prom. And you can also tell she kind of puts
a lot of pressure on her to make sure she has
a great prom. This is the pressure she feels
kind of thing. Melissa the lap dog shows up at
Tiffany's house. And basically Tiffany offers,
because Melissa doesn't have a lot of money,
that she can borrow one of her other dresses
to wear to prom. And then there's this montage
of them dancing to White Wedding. And it shows
just all the nominees and their lives. And the
big one that we care about for this is Christy.
Christy just sold weed to a Sunnyvale person
and his friend. And, like, instead of getting
right home, she walks home after the deal. And
so she's, like, alone in this dark alley. And
she starts being chased in this person with a
red raincoat and an axe. And I just call him
Red Guy. um there's really no name for it it's
not like it's a weird look um i don't know how
to describe this guy so the best way i can describe
it is um if you've ever seen don't look now it's
kind of that like it's a it's a red raincoat
and then like a weird face kind of thing um Originally,
I thought it was supposed to be like the devil
or something like that. But no, it's not the
devil. It's just like this goofy face. And yeah,
it's not scary if you want to know the truth.
So red guy is chasing after Christy. And Christy
gets killed with a red screen of blood off screen.
So like the screen turns red kind of thing. So
Christy's gone. There's the first prom queen
out of the way. There's only five more left to
go. So yeah, the next day they're kind of doing
like a run through of like the prom queen practice.
And the vice principal, Lily Taylor, is the one
who runs this. Lily Taylor has been in a bunch
of different things. It's a reoccurring joke
that the principal is kind of like a beta man
and that the vice principal runs everything kind
of thing. She explains to the group that Christy
did not show up to school today, so she is disqualified
from prom queen. So after this whole practice,
Tiffany kind of wants to turn the knife a little
more. So she threatens Lori and tells her not
to cross her. And she has a vendetta against
the Grangers because her mom killing her dad
basically ruined her mom's prom. So, there's
definitely like a bad blood feud between these
two. Fine. Whatever. It's fine. We knew this
was kind of going to go that way. They definitely
were going to butt heads at some point. At the
same time, Megan, our alt girl, best friends
with Lori, is starting to wonder where Christy
is. More so because she also smokes and is trying
to find a hookup before prom. And so she can't
find her. She has no clue where she is or anything
like that. She even finds like her boyfriend,
like her on and off again boyfriend. And he's
just kind of like, I haven't seen her either.
And even though he's kind of like a strung up
or strung out guy, he does seem to care that
Christy has disappeared. So Megan's kind of like,
hmm, something happened. I don't know what, but
something happened. All right, now it's the big
moment. It's a big night. Everybody starts preparing
for the prom and this is started with Tiffany.
Tiffany is like getting dressed, looking in the
mirror and Nancy comes up to her and it was just
like, no matter what, I'm proud of you. Now don't
fuck it up. Losing to a Granger. Can you imagine?
And then it's just kind of one of those things
where that's, this is what I was saying is there's
a lot of pressure on Tiffany. She definitely
feels the pressure. And it also is obviously
where like the hostility comes from, why they
don't like the Granger family. We go to the Granger
house and though she was found not guilty, Lori's
mom definitely has like dealt with a ton. You
can tell it's weighing on her, but she goes to
Lori and tells her that she shouldn't have had
to carry that weight. And this is like, she feels
bad for Lori that she's, she's always had to
deal with this, even though it's not her fault.
Like she was never the one that was, that should
have had to deal with this. And Lori said, this
is just why she ran for prom queen. Because it
wasn't just for her. It was for, like, to change
the story on the Granger family. So one of the
people we haven't talked about yet is Harmony.
Harmony is an aspiring news reporter. And whenever
you see her, she's just there to deliver news
position. Like, she is doing the school news
and talking all about how, like... Yeah, Laurie
Granger has shown up. Will she win prom queen?
We all know about her mother and everything like
that. And it kind of sets up like we learn more
about the killing and the prom and that Laurie
actually kind of stands a chance, even though
she's an outsider. Like people like her. I don't
know what it is, but people kind of like her.
So they they do have people that are kind of
like cheering for Laurie. and it also introduces
our cameraman whose name is spider um yeah his
name is spider so you know so the vice principal
is explaining like the rules to the prom like
all the things you need to do and that kind of
stuff and she says that voting doesn't start
until 11 and like i'm pretty sure our prom was
like done by 11 like we already had known who
the prom king and queen were that kind of stuff
They don't vote until 11. That's crazy to me.
They also ask all of the nominees to come up
and like Lori standing up there, you know, and
then all of a sudden the Wolfpack comes through
and they start doing a dance number in American
flag swimsuits. It's embarrassing for Lori. She
she feels embarrassed by this because she just
I think this was the lowest of the low. This
is when she felt like, oh, she's not going to
win because. These girls are more attractive.
They have all the popularity, that kind of stuff.
And they just did this number and like she was
the only one left out of it. So it was just everybody
else in these American flag swimsuits and then
her on her own in her dress. After the dance
and everything like that, Tiffany and Tyler are
talking and Tiffany basically calls out Tyler
for being late on the dance number. Linda, the
bookworm, she has been giving flyers to get out
from behind Tiffany's shadow. She's been trying
to covertly try to get people to vote for her
for prom queen. And Bobby, Linda's date, forgot
the rest of the flyers. So they walk out to go
get them so they can pass them out again. So
Bobby and Linda, they go to the art room. this
is where all of her flyers were stored and everything
like that and they're all either destroyed drawn
on what have you all of them are just basically
not usable and so she's pissed she thinks this
is tiffany so she hears the door closed behind
them she walks away because she's just like she's
fuming she's heated so she walks away from bobby
bobby's like trying to find see if there's any
that haven't been destroyed if like lower in
the pile kind of thing and then linda comes back
and she's like holding her stomach and bobby
is just kind of like what's wrong sweetie what's
what's going on and she like looks down she kind
of lets it slide a little bit and her internal
organs just linda goes down she is done and bobby
is now stuck in the room with a killer and it's
one of those like he's being blocked off from
the door that happens a lot in this movie so
there's a lot of times where it's like okay they
can go like one way or the other way but they've
let themselves get blocked off by the door so
bobby is trying to like get past the killer and
the killer like grabs him and he throws him down
and he chops off his hand with a paper cutter
it's like just one fell swoop just and bobby
is in pain and he's missing his hand but he like
with the other hand tries to reach for like something
to use and the killer just is like okay grabs
his other hand puts it on the table and chops
it off too so he's missing both hands uh he is
like losing blood missing both hands he tries
to like run away but uh you know he doesn't have
hands So he like gets to the door and is struggling
to open the door because he can't use the knob.
And the killer like smashes his face against
the window and Bobby falls down. Yeah, Bobby
gone. All right. So we've got three people down.
We are going to take a quick break and then get
back to the bloodshed of. Fear Street prom queen.
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to Fear Street Prom Queen. We've got two prom
queens down. We've got a prom king nominee down.
It is just the beginning of the night of prom.
So, yeah. Back at the dance, Tyler runs into
Lori, and they have kind of a moment. He compliments
her dress and he says it's much better than the
Stars and Stripes. Definitely a shot at the Stars
and Stripes swimsuits. He seems like a nice dude.
So I kind of like Tyler. I think him and Lori
could be very happy together if it does work
out. This is, of course, interrupted by them
finding a fake head that looks like Tiffany's
in the punch bowl. And Tiffany is pissed and
she immediately calls out Megan and by association,
Lori. it was Megan. Megan did actually do this.
She put this fake head in the punch bowl of Tiffany's
and it basically gets everyone to kind of look
weird at Lori. And so like Lori calls out Megan
and just kind of says like, this is important
to her. She's trying to, she's trying to win.
She doesn't want to be the weirdo anymore. She
doesn't want to be the outsider. She wants to
do this for her family and everything like that.
And Megan feels bad about this, but she also
doesn't feel like she has to be sorry for this
because it took Tiffany down a peg, you know?
And so I see where both of them are coming from
on this. There's a lot of times where they're
going to get into arguments on this. And truthfully,
for the most part, we're going to side with Megan.
On this one, I see both of their arguments and
I get why. At the same time as this is happening,
Melissa is kind of lapdogging up to Tiffany.
And Debbie is mad that Melissa is kind of like
hounding in on this. And so she's complaining
to Judd. Judd is her date. And Judd just does
not seem to care. Like at all. He really doesn't
seem to care. And he kind of changes the subject,
but not really. And he says he got something
for Debbie. and that they should walk away so
that he can give it to her so we see how this
goes if you walk away from the prom you are probably
going to have a bad time maybe not always but
it's starting to seem that way so debbie and
judd have walked away from the prom megan sees
christy's boyfriend the burnout uh he wasn't
going to go to the prom christy was going to
go on her own because she wanted to win problem
queen and everything like that and that megan
saw him she was kind of like i thought you weren't
coming and he goes no i was hoping that christy
was going to be here i still haven't seen her
i don't know where she is like i hoped that she
was just going to show up and be here so again
we have no clue where christy is um the principal
comes up to laurie And tells her that there is
something in the office for her. And that she
has a secret admirer. So she is also walking
away from the prom. And Megan is also walking
away from the prom. Trying to see if she can
find anything about where Christy has gone. So
Lori, when she gets to the office. There is a
bunch of roses. And a card that reads, hope you
don't choke. This really isn't explained. at
all but you know it's a part of it i guess i
don't know um judd and debbie they have gone
to this dark basement that apparently they go
to all the time judd is like obsessed with it
and he gives her a necklace and they start kissing
and they're they're about to get it on like they
have before in this dark basement but all of
a sudden they hear something and they kind of
just stop and like debbie's looking around but
doesn't really see anything And then out of nowhere,
Red Dude sticks this power handsaw into Judd's
neck. Because this is like a garage or like a
shop class or something like that. So he grabs
this power handsaw and sticks it straight into
Judd's neck, chopping him up. And he's just kind
of thing. Judd is gripping onto Debbie. So she's
stuck there while this is happening. She's just
getting covered in blood. and then red guy turns
attention onto debbie and like pulls the power
saw out and debbie's able to get out of judd's
grip um she she's the one this is this is where
i started noticing about the door and everything
like that she could get out the door she had
the angle yet she turns herself the other way
blocking her exit once again and so She ends
up in a position in front of the power wires
and the red dude powers up the saw again, lunges
at Debbie and she tries to avoid it, falls and
she ends up in the power wires and she's electrocuted
to death. This makes the lights flicker at the
prom, at the school and the hallway gets dark.
So as Lori is like walking back, Tiffany turns
the corner. So it's one of those like jump scare
things where Tiffany all of a sudden just kind
of like, wah, kind of things. She turns the corner
to call out Lori for staring at Tyler. And Melissa
shows up too. And Melissa, this is when Melissa
starts getting like, Melissa turns on Tiffany.
It's not a complete turn, but it's a turn. Like
she definitely makes more of a decision of, okay,
I'm not going to be. You're a little lap dog
anymore. And when Melissa catches them, Tiffany
basically recounts the tale of Rose Granger killing
her husband. And Melissa is even mad about this
one. Like Lori runs off crying, goes to the bathroom
first on her way. Melissa's mad about this one.
She says something to Tiffany. Melissa then goes
to the bathroom as well. And she basically like
asks if Lori is okay. Cause Lori's. crying in
the bathroom and she tells her to put on a brave
face and gives her like this eye makeup pencil
kind of thing and basically what Lori does is
she fixes her makeup and does it in a completely
different style that's like supposed to be hot
and she walks in like ready to fuck shit up and
Melissa's like already there She gives her the
pencil back and Lori is just kind of like, you
know, nods to Melissa like, okay, we're friendly
now. This is good. And it drives Tiffany insane.
Who then throws two drinks into Melissa's face.
Lori kind of like steps up for Melissa to Tiffany
and they start yelling at each other. And then
the DJ just yells, motherfucking dance off. One
of the things that really didn't matter early
on was that Laurie really wanted to hear the
song Gloria. And so he plays Gloria and they
do just a dance off in the middle of this movie.
They're doing a dance off while this dance off
is happening. Melissa goes to change because
her dress is basically ruined. So she goes into
the bathroom or like the locker room, really.
And she goes to change. But wouldn't you know
it, while this dance -off is happening and Melissa's
alone in the locker room, Red Guy is there. And
basically, Red Guy makes his presence known after
a while because he's just kind of like standing
there. He makes his presence known and then he
reveals a cleaver. And he chases Melissa around
the locker room. And she escapes. She gets away.
She's able to get to the door and open it up.
And when she does, she's greeted by another red
guy. Yes, there is two of them. And this one
lodges a cleaver straight into her head. And
then her dead body is dragged away. This is all
happening while Lori and Tiffany are doing a
dance -off to Gloria. And because Lori just kind
of gave no fucks and just kind of let it go and
experienced the song and danced and felt so good.
People are starting to vote for her. People are
starting to feel good about, like, she could
do this. She could take out the popular girl.
And one of the people that also is kind of believing
in her is Tyler. And Tyler is, like, staring
back at Lori. Like, they're locking eyes kind
of thing. Tiffany calls out Tyler about staring
back at Lori. Then also says, you better not
ruin our future. And he takes it personal because
he's just like, the future that you have planned
for me, everything that you have planned for
me, yeah, no, I'm done. Tyler ends it right there
with Tiffany. Ruins their future on the spot.
So Tyler's now single. Tiffany's now single.
Lori still is single. But we're going to divert
our attention to Megan. Megan sees Spider. And
Spider is toking. And she can't believe that
he's like a secret toker. And I'm just sitting
there going, his name is Spider for goddamn sake.
But yeah. So Megan takes a hit from Spider's
weed. So Melissa's date, I think his name is
Gerald, is looking for Melissa and comes across
Megan and Spider as they're smoking. is just
kind of like have you seen melissa have you seen
melissa and they're just like no we haven't seen
her and megan starts pointing two and two together
she starts realizing like the wolf pack is disappearing
not only that as she's like looking around she
sees the red guy and like he just kind of like
is in frame and then gone and realizes like all
the prom queens are gone like they're all disappearing
and so she's like i need to save laurie she confronts
laurie about it and This is right when Lori and
Tyler were having a moment they were about to
make out. And of course, Megan breaks it up because,
you know, movie and Lori is pissed and basically
just like says to Megan that like she needs to
go away. Lori is having a great night. So even
though Megan walks away and she and Lori kind
of feels bad about it. Tyler says like, I'll
take you somewhere private kind of thing. Megan
is doing like super sleuthing. She's figuring
it all out. She had heard a scream earlier. She
realizes the power, like the cords and stuff,
all of that are down in the basement and that
Judd and Debbie make out in the basement. And
so she's wondering if something happened and
this is why the power flicker. So she goes down
there to try to figure out what happened. Lori
and Tyler and their secret spot that he took
her to. Lori feels bad about what happened with
Megan. And Tyler tries to like talk her out of
it. But Lori's like, I want to walk back. I want
to apologize. And then Tyler gets stabbed in
the top of the head by red guy. Tyler gone dead.
At the same time in the basement, Megan finds
Stoker, who was the janitor, who was supposed
to be, he was definitely like the red herring
character. He's kind of just like creepy, that
kind of thing. So you're supposed to think from
the beginning, like, oh, this is definitely him.
He was killed with an ax. And then she sees Judd
and Debbie's dead bodies as well. Lori hears
Megan scream. And so as she's like running away
from red guy, she goes in the basement and she
gets to the basement. She gets to Megan and then
the door is locked by red guy one. So they're
like hiding off in a corner, trying to like stay
calm. And Red Guy 2 starts dragging the bodies
of Debbie and Judd and Stoker. So Red Guy 2 starts
dragging the bodies one way. The girls get through
the door that Red Guy 2 was using and close it.
And then there's like a lantern. That's next
to this yearbook. And all the prom queens are
X'd off in like red ink kind of thing. You know,
the hit list. Red Guy 2 realizes that they use
the door and starts attacking the door with an
axe after he got it out of Stoker's head. So
they stack some chairs and they smash this window.
And Megan's able to escape through the window
by stacking these chairs up. And Lori has a tougher
time. She can't get out in time because Red Guy
2 has just like absolutely destroyed the door
at this point. So Red Guy 2 grabs her. Lori finds
a piece of glass and just stabs Red Guy 2 in
the chest. And now she's able to buy enough time
she can get out the window. They run back to
the public at the prom and they get there just
in time. for Lori to win prom queen. And mind
you, I think the only thing that qualified her
to win was the fact that she out danced Tiffany
to Gloria. It's very weird, but I guess that's,
that was enough for them in the eighties. So
she won prom queen. Um, she goes up there and
like, it's not like she's going up there like
willingly. She's getting pulled up there kind
of thing. So she goes up there. Um, the red guy
shows up and starts going on an ax spree, chopping
off a girl's leg, clear cutting this guy's head
off. Then he chops off the principal's arm. Like
this is bad. This is really bad. Um, he's on
stage. He's about to take out Lori, but Megan
is able to attack him. And again, He, like, turns
the tables on Megan. He's about to kill her.
But then Lori takes off her tiara and stabs the
killer, like, right in the eye. This puts him
down, essentially. This is what it is. And the
killer is, because they're able to figure it
out because they take off his mask and they find
out that it is Mr. Dan Falconer. Which, if you
were wondering what happened to Mr. Dan Falconer.
I had no clue. It took me a second to figure
out who this was because literally I had not
seen him since it felt like early on in the film.
So I'm literally like sitting there going, who
the fuck is that? Nancy is a chaperone of this
and Tiffany obviously is there as a guest. They
both kind of like, why'd you do it? And he says
basically because they both wanted it so badly.
That was his motivation was they wanted it so
badly that he started killing off the prom Queens.
The only one he wasn't going to kill because
of course would have been Tiffany. And so principal
Wayland still alive, by the way, um, doesn't
have an arm, but basically they just like laid
his chopped off arm in front of him. And he just
looks at it and goes, well, how's this? And then
passes out. Yeah. So that's the problem. It's
great. Problem's over. Lori won. Dan Falconer
is going to jail. But now, of course, Tiffany
is kind of going through it. And Megan and Lori
are at the ambulance and they're like apologizing
to each other, forgiving each other, that kind
of thing. Falconer's all come out, including
Dan. And the police are just like, we need a
statement from Nancy. We'll give Tiffany a ride
back. And Tiffany is kind of like, I don't want
to go anywhere without my mom. I don't want to
be alone right now. And so Lori sees this and
feels bad. And she goes, well, I live across
the street. Can I go with, I'll go with her and
try to make her feel better. And it's kind of
a nice moment. Cause they like have a heart to
heart in the car about how Tiffany never felt
like a winner. And she just always wanted to
be the best for them. And she, she kind of apologizes
about what she put Lori through. Not exactly,
but kind of apologizes because now she's going
through it, you know? And so they get to the
house. Lori's about to walk across the street
and police are just like, yeah, we can handle
this. No problem. And Tiffany's just like, can
you please stay? Like, please just stay. I need
somebody. And Lori obliges. you know so uh nancy's
giving her statement and you know she's doing
the normal mom things like can i go my daughter
needs me that kind of stuff um and they let her
they they're just like we'll pick this up in
the morning kind of thing so so when nancy gets
there we see that laurie is asleep in tiffany's
room tiffany's in the bed laurie's like on a
couch kind of thing or like on a whatever on
the floor kind of thing and um nancy opens the
door and then she makes a beeline to the kitchen
she grabs a kitchen knife and instead of you
know just like being quiet about it and taking
care of this because obviously now she's in on
it uh instead of being quiet about it She walks
up the stairs, hitting every single stair post,
just and Lori kind of hears it and is like, Hmm,
something's going on. Something, something's,
something's not okay. So Lori wakes Tiffany up
and they run away because they now know like,
Oh shit. Yeah, this is not, this is not good.
We need to hide. So they hide in a closet. And
Tiffany's starting to hyperventilate kind of
thing. She's panicking. She's absolutely panicking.
Lori's just kind of like, you're going to give
us away, that kind of thing. And then she starts
getting weird and starts saying some things and
was talking about how Judd got his face smashed.
And can you imagine the blood against the glass?
It was beautiful. Yep, Tiffany, also a part.
The whole Falconer family, they are fucking killers.
They are the red guys. So Lori gets away and
is like running away. And she runs past like
an open door. And Nancy comes out from behind
it and stabs her in the back. So Lori has been
stabbed. She is down. It turns out also, because
we need all of this exposition. It turns out
that Nancy. Was the one who killed Lori's dad.
Because Nancy was with Lori's dad. First. And.
They insinuate. I don't know. Okay at this point
I was pretty drunk. But they insinuated. And
I think this might be the case. That Tiffany
is also. Lori's dad's child. Because they were
together first. And Rose. granger the fucking
whore stole him away from us because that's what
the grangers do kind of thing um so yeah they
she is harboring a lot of things right now she
killed lori's dad she has killed all the prom
queens except for lori right now and nancy is
like holding her on the ground with a knife and
tiffany is like can i finish the job I need to
finish this because I want to kill this girl.
And Nancy's like, sure, cool. Hands her the knife.
And so as Tiffany is getting closer with the
knife, Lori just racks up and donkey kicks her.
And she flips from the second floor onto the
falcon statue they have at the bottom of the
stairs. And she is gone. Like she is pierced
in 16 different places. She is dead. So now Lori
just needs to get away from Nancy. So she runs
down the stairs because Nancy now doesn't even
have a weapon. She gave her knife to Tiffany.
And Nancy is pissed. She blocks the only exit
again. And Lori grabs like this running statue
and just clobbers Nancy in the head with it.
Nancy falls to the ground still alive and asking
for help like she is just bleeding out and she's
asking for help and then it turns like when Lori's
just like I'm not doing this um it turns evil
it's just like you bitch you trash you're nobody
who the fuck do you think you are and she like
smashes her over and over and over again to end
it and she goes I'm Lori fucking Granger And
then the police show up and, yeah, it's all over.
Fear Street Prom Queen. That's it. Let's start
first with the important stuff, the rating. I
think I have to give it a .5 out of 5. So, yeah,
I'll say .5 out of 5. I don't know. I haven't
thought about what to actually give it. Axes,
I guess. That's lame. I don't know. Red raincoats.
Red raincoats. Yeah, sure. 0 .5 out of 5 red
raincoats. It's just so disappointing because
the first three were really a lot of fun. And
though there were some inventive kills in this
one, I will say there wasn't nearly enough. Things
like the paper cutter. I thought that was kind
of fun. The other ones, though, we didn't see.
I know this is very weird because I'm rating
death sequences, but, you know, it's a horror
movie. This is something you kind of want in
these movies, especially how creative they got
with some of them in the first three. I like
the creativity of the first three. This one was
very lame in comparison. I like the paper cutter
cutting off his hands. That was great. We didn't
see Linda's death. I just saw the visceral. you
know insides on the outside we didn't see christy's
death that happened off screen um debbie died
by going into power cords and judd was just literally
was it judd no yeah judd judd and bobby yeah
that's it uh so judd was basically just a power
handsaw out of nowhere just into his neck and
like it's fine it's it's not bad it was fun in
the fact that he's holding debbie and like blood
splattering everywhere kind of thing but you
know in comparison it's not a unique death it's
not anything crazy and it happened so quickly
that it was just okay it's done um a lot of axes
a lot of knives a lot of just normal stuff the
cleaver in the head the only thing that was surprising
about that with melissa was that there was a
second red guy yeah but the creativity of the
kills Was a lot more fun in the first three.
And so this was disappointing in comparison.
The one thing a lot of people have been saying.
A lot of reviews that I've seen about this have
been saying. Is that it was predictable. And
I will say yes and no. Yes and no it was predictable.
I thought that Nancy was involved. Yes. I thought
that Tiffany might be involved. Maybe. The only
reason I say it wasn't predictable is I didn't
have any clue who the fuck Dan Falconer was when
he was revealed at the prom as the killer. I
had no clue. Like, none. And so I'm sitting there
going like, huh? Who's this guy again? And if
I didn't just see the principal get his arm chopped
off, I actually might have thought it was the
principal. Like, that is... how confused i was
with who this character was dan falconer was
a nobody that we'd seen for like two scenes maybe
and all of a sudden he was just a killer and
then when he was revealed and the movie was still
going that's when you knew so like we knew there
was a second red guy anyway so i'm already like
okay it's one of the other falconers when the
movie kept going and it was like Lori is hanging
with Tiffany to try to make her feel better.
And Nancy's trying to get home. That's when it
all clicked for me. Oh, they're both in on it.
I knew it was either one of the other. I just
didn't know which one it was going to be. I thought
it was Nancy pretty early on. I actually at some
point said it's not Nancy because that feels
too obvious. It's like trying to talk myself
out of it. But no, it was Nancy and Tiffany.
It was all of them. It was the whole Falconer
family. So that's my thing is, yes, it was predictable
on a lot of things. However, it was not predictable
in the fact that I had no fucking clue who Dan
was. Just none. I don't think they needed to
twist in that Laurie's dad was killed by Nancy.
I don't think they needed to twist in if they
actually did. I don't know. I was pretty drunk
by the end of this movie. So it may or may not
have been what was insinuated. I didn't want
to go back at that point, but that Tiffany is
also Laurie's half -sister. That definitely didn't
need to happen. The character of the red guy
was stupid. That's not going to be one of those
killers that goes down in infamy. It's a terrible
ghost face. It's a knockoff ghost face, a Timu
ghost face, that kind of thing. I'm trying to
think what else about this movie. Yeah, it just
lacked the fun of the first three. The first
three, I have a visceral image, especially the
first one, of the bread slicer kill. I thought
that was phenomenal. And that's kind of what
I liked about the first three movies, was it
was fun. It doesn't take itself too seriously.
This one didn't take itself too seriously. I'm
not saying that at all. I think it definitely
still has that element of fun. But for some reason,
it just didn't hit the same. So it was fine.
It was okay in certain aspects. Other aspects,
it was absolutely horrible. This is going to
be one of those movies where I think a couple
months down the line, they're going to be like,
oh, have you ever seen Fear Street Prom Queen?
I'm going to be like, no, I don't think I have
because I'll have completely forgotten it. It
is not. So it's 26 % and 25 % right now. It's
that bad because it's predictable and it's not
fun. And so for that, it deserves it. However,
I think this is a harmless movie that isn't going
to do damage in the long run. Because I think
everybody's just going to forget it existed.
And they should. They really should. This one
is a miss in this series. I'm hoping there's
going to be more because, like I said, I like
the first three a lot. I don't want it to be
killed because of this entry, especially because
I kind of see what they were going for. It was
a little bit of fun. It was that kind of thing.
That being said, I mean, it could kill the franchise
right here. Now, I don't think these are very
expensive to make, and they are Netflix originals
or Netflix only. So I don't think this will kill
it. I think there will be a fifth or a sixth
somewhere down the line. However, I think they're
going to pivot from whatever their next idea
might have been. We'll see. We'll absolutely
see. One of the things that I think was a problem
with this one was... the use of their known actors
um even though catherine waterston was a big
part of the end she wasn't very well used in
the beginning i mean she had more time than a
lot of other people but you know uh ariana greenblatt
arguably one of the more popular of the actresses
in the high school group um was on screen for
maybe five minutes and then killed off Lily Taylor,
I think, was supposed to be a bigger part and
she wasn't anything. And I totally thought Lily
Taylor was another red herring as the vice principal
because she was so strict and she wanted certain
people to be the prom queen. I think there was
definitely a thought there of, yeah, she's going
to be a part of this because she. wants certain
people to be prom queen or she wants to get rid
of the bad apples kind of thing you know and
then the janitor stoker was just creepy just
to be creepy so he wasn't he was an obvious red
herring like that there was no question in my
mind this dude killed nobody like i i knew for
a fact from the beginning oh no this dude no
he is a nobody he is just there to be creepy
i think that goes to their point about predictability
because I don't think they did a good job of,
like, introducing suspects. The obvious red herring
of Stoker. The vice principal was the only other
one that I thought might have been it besides
the Falconers. And with a name like Falconer,
you also kind of think to yourself, yeah, they
totally are doing something. It would have been
better if I felt that none of the prom queens
were the ones killing anybody. It would have
probably been better if they were. I've been
thinking a lot about how I'm going to talk about
this one, but I thought I had a lot more material
on what I was going to be saying about this because
I do have strong opinions about scary movies.
I like scary movies. I like horror movies. I
rate them based on the killer, the kills, the
plot, the twist kind of thing. And on all cylinders,
it kind of failed, except for maybe the kills
were a little... little okay um just more so
because of the paper cutter one that's the that's
the only one i was just like yeah cool that one
great because that was also kind of funny in
the fact that he got away and was like trying
to open the door and it was like he can't open
the door because he has no hands so that's immature
but i mean it's funny um killer's design was
boring as hell that was a terrible design I don't
know what it was supposed to be. I thought it
was a devil at first, but then it's just like
it's creepy mask with a red raincoat. That's
it. Cool. All right. What? Yeah. Yeah. Watching
Karate Kid 3 or the next Karate Kid probably
could have been a thing. But at the end of the
day, I think I made the right choice by watching
the more recent thing. and yeah um fear street
prom queen i hope you don't kill the fear street
series because i think you can have a lot more
fun with it i think there's some good stories
still out there i mean it's rl stein so there
there definitely is some that translate better
than others i will say that because we all know
goosebumps there were certain episodes that absolutely
hit and then certain episodes that were complete
flops um there was books same thing that were
absolute hits and complete flops so i'm thinking
there's a bunch of other things that arlstein
has put into this fear street series that can
be translated pretty well or just branching off
and like using that as a template not really
as the thing i think it could be done better
um part of it also is just the fact that the
writer and the director uh have no experience
they just have none And so when you put these
two in charge of this kind of thing, you need
some pedigree with this. I'm not saying it needs
to be an absolute gem of an author or anything
like that, but it should be a little better than
somebody who is known for three short films and
some other project I've never heard of that's
like only a 6 out of 10, you know? So, yeah.
That's where probably this thing... goes downhill
is the writing on this. And I don't think any
of the actresses did bad. I don't think any of
the actors did bad. I think the writing definitely
harmed it because there was only a certain amount
of suspects. There was only a certain amount
of people that could have done it. And at the
end of the day, we'd completely forgotten about
a suspect because we'd just not seen them. And
then all of a sudden they were the killer. So
yeah, that's my thoughts. Fear Street Prom Queen.
0 .5 out of 5 red raincoats. Yeah. So we have
a couple more coming up in the future. A couple
more crazy bad movies that we're going to talk
about. I have some guests that I'm trying to
get on the show as well. I'm really excited about
that. So yeah. Hopefully it's not just going
to be me in the future for a couple more episodes.
You can hear... I have guessed it on a couple
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Thank you to Mark from Project Football Podcast
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