But that doesn’t mean that streaming can’t get in on the game too with originals that speak both to a current generation of teens and adults nostalgic for the slashers of their youth. Unlike YA rom-coms, horror movies are one of the few genres aside from superheroes that still generate significant ticket sales at the box office. And she’s done it in a way that’s remarkably fun.”Īs the executive behind addictive docuseries like “Making a Murderer” and “Tiger King,” Nishimura has a preternatural ability to scout the next big thing in binge watching. She’s re-defined what that looks like and feels like. She’s modernized it through a lens of who gets to fall in love, who is represented on screen, who survives the first 15 minutes? If you look back at the history of horror movies, it tends to be the outsider. What Leigh has done with ‘Fear Street’ is taken that ambition and combined a lot of the best in storytelling. “We started to look at horror, which is just a classic storytelling arena. It became really clear that’s a rich space for us,” said Lisa Nishimura, Netflix’s vice president of independent and documentary films. “We found really exciting and great success when we leaned into YA romance, a category that I loved growing up with John Hughes. The studio has several YA-geared horror films rolling out this year, including “There’s Someone Inside Your House,” from filmmaker Patrick Brice. Netflix saw massive success tapping into YA romance with franchises like “The Kissing Booth” and “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before,” and is now turning its attention to horror, another staple of teen moviegoing. “Fear Street” is also kicking off a new strategy for the streamer: reviving the “scream teen” genre. “What we ultimately ended up coming up with was a hybrid of movies and what people think of more traditional television.” I was also a big fan of ‘Quantum Leap’ and ‘Back to the Future’ and I thought there was something that would be cool and satisfying to see characters who had experienced their own terrible events in the ’90s, in the ’70s and bring them back to the 1600s where their ancestors, or however you want to interpret it, experience something similar,” Janiak said. “I was personally obsessed with this idea of cycles of time, and history repeating itself and generational trauma.
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The ambitious series takes on the roots of systemic oppression tied to this small town. Some of the cast even appear in multiple films. This weekend, the series goes back in time even further, to 1978, and next Friday it rewinds all the way back to 1666. The first of which, “Fear Street Part 1: 1994,” about the strange happenings in the cursed town of Shadyside, Ohio, debuted last week. Yet unlike a traditional studio, that’s a gamble Netflix is able to take with director Leigh Janiak’s “Fear Street” films, three features based on R.L. But it’s downright unheard of to release the entire thing in three consecutive weeks. It’s not uncommon for Hollywood to stake a bet on a trilogy, or to even film several sequels at once.
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