![]() ![]() It shows everything that happens to Kate. I think I've seen the movie about four or five times now, and every time I just am so shocked and appalled that Leigh Janiak, our director, she just really leaned into showing everything in that scene, the camera does not cut away. I feel like most people would agree that it's the bread slicer scene in Fear Street Part One: 1994. Which was the most intense to film or to see? TV : Obviously there are many gruesome deaths in the Fear Street trilogy. I feel like I was a fan of horror, but then I met the cast and especially Olivia Scott Welch and Fred Hechinger, I was like, “Oh no, you guys are super fans.” So when I went back to watch them for research for my role, I felt like I could actually take part in the conversations and kind of consider myself a slasher fan, but still I know I have a long way to go. Were you a fan of these slasher horror movies before? TV: I was reading that the cast was encouraged to watch the classics, like Scream and Friday the 13th. They're going to be okay." But in the Goosebumps books I was scared because I was like, anything can happen. ![]() He's relentless in the way that there's just blood and gore and horror in the Fear Street books and the Goosebumps books. Kiana: I remember they were definitely for kids, but there was something really eerie about them all. TV : You said in an interview with Hypebae that you were “a Goosebumps kid.” Do you remember what drew you to those books growing up? It's really everything that I look for when wanting to tell a story. All three movies take place in different time periods, the scripts intertwine, they're cohesive, there's plot twists, there's unexpected turns. The way that the scripts are written, the intention for rolling out the films, everything about these films are quite groundbreaking. (If you read much crime journalism, this dynamic will seem pretty familiar.Kiana Madeira: I was honestly just so excited to be a part of it. The killings mostly seem to be the work of locals who just went nuts - an indictment of the hopeless Shadyside culture that produced them, according to the sheriff who’s constantly on TV condescending to the victims and hyping the crime rate - but to the people suffering, the random murder sprees create an atmosphere of distrust, as well as some understandable bitterness at a wider world that seems to think they deserve it. Shadysiders have other problems, though: Their town is the murder capital of the universe. Deena (Madeira) and her nerdy brother Josh (Benjamin Flores Jr.) live in the dangerous town of Shadyside - the evil twin of bucolic Sunnyvale, which is a pleasant place populated by jocks who make it their mission to be obnoxious to the people of Shadyside. The “rules” of classic horror films have always been puritanical - that’s one of the big jokes in the “Scream” movies - but Janiak is here in the series to both further subvert them and take the fight all the way back to the Puritans themselves: After a stopover in the Carpenter horror era for “Fear Street: 1978,” the final installment of the trilogy takes place in the 17th century (which horror fans remember best for the Salem witch trials).īut kicking things off in 1994, we have a classic slasher film with some clever twists. ![]() This is the singular vision of a monstrously talented director it didn’t really have to be a nostalgia play based on once-trendy paperbacks. ![]()
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