Fear Street Part Two: 1978

Fear Street Part Two: 1978 (titled onscreen as Fear Street 1978) is a 2021 American teen supernatural slasher film directed by Leigh Janiak, with a script co-written by Janiak, and Zak Olkewicz, from an original story by Janiak, Olkewicz, and Phil Graziadei.[2] Based on the book series of the same name by R. L. Stine, it is the second installment in the Fear Street trilogy after Part One: 1994 and stars Sadie Sink, Emily Rudd, Ryan Simpkins, McCabe Slye, Ted Sutherland, Gillian Jacobs, Kiana Madeira, Benjamin Flores Jr., and Olivia Scott Welch. The film centers on the cursed town of Shadyside, a killer’s murder spree terrorizes Camp Nightwing and turns a summer of fun into a gruesome fight for survival.

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Fear Street Part Two: 1978
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Directed by	Leigh Janiak
Screenplay by	Zak Olkewicz[1] Leigh Janiak
Story by	Zak Olkewicz[1] Phil Graziadei Leigh Janiak
Based on	Fear Street by R. L. Stine
Produced by	Peter Chernin Jenno Topping David Ready
Starring	Sadie Sink Emily Rudd Ryan Simpkins McCabe Slye Ted Sutherland Gillian Jacobs Kiana Madeira Benjamin Flores Jr. Olivia Scott Welch Chiara Aurelia
Cinematography	Caleb Heymann
Edited by	Rachel Goodlett Katz
Music by	Marco Beltrami Brandon Roberts
Production companies	20th Century Studios Chernin Entertainment
Distributed by	Netflix
Release dates	July 8, 2021 (2021-07-08) (Los Angeles) July 9, 2021 (2021-07-09) (United States)
Running time	110 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Produced by Chernin Entertainment, a film adaptation of Fear Street began development at 20th Century Fox in 2015, with Janiak hired in 2017. Filming for the trilogy took place back-to-back from March to September 2019 in Georgia, with the intention of a theatrical release beginning June 2020. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney, Chernin Entertainment ended their distribution deal with 20th Century Studios and sold rights to Netflix in August 2020.

Fear Street Part Two: 1978 premiered at the Los Angeles State Historic Park on July 8, 2021, and was released by Netflix on July 9, 2021. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised the screenplay, direction and the performances of Sink, Rudd, and Simpkins. The final installment in the trilogy, Part Three: 1666, was released on July 16.