1994 opens with a cheeky reference to the
Fear Street books themselves (like the
Goosebumps movies, it appears to take place in a world where R.L. Stine’s work exists), as a shopper at the book store dismisses the source material as ‘lowbrow horror’ and ‘trash.’ But you’d never guess that watching this adaptation, a
Scream scrubbed of danger. Forget the middle-aged fans it might irk. Don’t today’s kids deserve some trash of their own, instead of a tasteful substitution?” Here’s the rest of A.A. Dowd’s review of the first installment of the three-parter
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