Fear Street: Prom Queen gets a new poster ahead of Netflix premiere

Fear Street: Prom Queen, the continuation of the Fear Street film franchise that began with the release of the trilogy of Fear Street Part One: 1994, Fear Street Part Two: 1978, and Fear Street Part Three: 1666 on the Netflix streaming service back in the summer of 2021, made its way through production last year, and recently it was announced that the new film will be available to watch on Netflix as of May 23rd. With that date right around the corner, Fangoria has unveiled a new poster for the film, and you can check it out at the bottom of this article!

Author R.L. Stine has written over 100 books that have been published under the various Fear Street banners. While the initial trilogy of films wasn’t directly based on any specific Fear Street book, the new movie will be telling a version of the story Stine crafted for his 1992 book The Prom Queen. Here’s the description: A spring night… soft moonlight… five beautiful Prom Queen candidates… dancing couples at the Shadyside High prom — these should be the ingredients for romance. But stir in one brutal murder — then another, and another — and the recipe quickly turns to horror. Lizzie McVay realizes that someone is murdering the five Prom Queen candidates one by one — and that she may be next on the list! Can she stop the murderer before the dance is over — for good? The official synopsis says Fear Street: Prom Queen takes us back to the town of Shadyside, Ohio, where prom season at Shadyside High is underway and the school’s wolfpack of It Girls is busy with its usual sweet and vicious campaigns for the crown. But when a gutsy outsider is unexpectedly nominated to the court, and the other girls start mysteriously disappearing, the class of ’88 is suddenly in for one hell of a prom night.

Back in 2022, we heard that Chloe Okuno, who recently made her feature directorial debut with the thriller Watcher, would be directing the next Fear Street movie, but she left the street behind at some point in the last couple years. The film is actually being directed by Matthew Palmer, who made his feature directorial debut with the 2018 Netflix thriller Calibre. Palmer has written the screenplay with Calibre cast member Donald McLeary. Palmer told Fangoria, “It’s funny, I was initially attracted to 1988 just because I really love the late ’80s movies and all the music, I guess because that’s when I was in high school. Then, when we started thinking about it more, it kind of sat quite nicely. The stuff that the characters have started to discover by 1994, the people in Shadyside don’t necessarily know in 1988, but you get to lean back a little bit into the Nightwing Massacre of 1978. I’d be lying if it wasn’t my instinctual attraction to 1988 that led me there first, but when we started to unpack that, it was like this actually feels like a really good choice of year for the franchise.“

Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, and Kori Adelson of Chernin Entertainment are producing Fear Street: Prom Queen, with Yvonne Bernard, Joan Waricha, and Jane Stine serving as executive producers. Caroline Pitofsky is overseeing the production for Chernin Entertainment. The film recently secured an R rating for strong bloody violence and gore, teen drug use, language and some sexual references.

The cast of Fear Street: Prom Queen includes Katherine Waterston (Alien: Covenant), Lili Taylor (The Conjuring), Chris Klein (American Pie), India Fowler (The Nevers), Suzanna Son (Red Rocket), Fina Strazza (Paper Girls), David Iacono (The Summer I Turned Pretty), Ariana Greenblatt (Barbie), and Ella Rubin (Until Dawn).

R.L. Stine recently said there are already three more Fear Street movies in development at Netflix.

In addition to the new poster, Fangoria unveiled two exclusive images from the film – and to see those, click over to the Fangoria link, where you’ll also find more quotes from Palmer. Both of the images feature a character reading a 1988 copy of Fangoria magazine, and to be specific, it’s issue #75, with Phantasm II on the cover.

Are you looking forward to watching Fear Street: Prom Queen in May? Let us know by leaving a comment below – and check out the new poster while you’re scrolling down:

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