Review of Fear Street: 1666 (2021) by Theredsky — 21 Jul 2021

I really loved the first half of this film but the second half fell flat on its face. The first half had some really great moments in it, it felt much more restrained with its themes and ideas which I really loved.

The set design and costumes looked absolutely incredible and I loved the reincorporation of all of the main characters throughout the two other films. The horror moments hit a lot harder than in the other two because of how little it showed.

I do like the excessive violence in these films but sometimes it felt a bit much and I liked how this felt more calm except for one scene which was absolutely brutal and terrifying. These sequence of the film was very well shot as well.

The exploration of the beginning of the curse was very engaging and interesting. It did have a twist that I could see coming from a mile away but it still was a good and interesting twist on the story and what we have been told.

Then the second half of the film starts. The second half goes back to the 1994 setting which I find really boring and it goes back to these uninteresting characters. It goes back to being blandly shot with very limited camera angles and movements.

We see the conclusion to these stories and it’s fine. Some of the logic behind it is very very confusing and the film’s only explanation for it is “curse broken” which didn’t do enough for some of these moments.

The first half did so much right while the second half just fell back to the same quality as the first film. The only reason I like this film better than the other two is because of that first half. Definitely check at least the first half of this out but if you didn’t like Part 1 then you might feel disappointed.