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FEAR STREET PART ONE: 1994 dir. Leigh Janiak | 2021
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FEAR STREET PART ONE: 1994 dir. Leigh Janiak | 2021
what if i was a band kid.. and you were a cheerleader.. and we were on opposing schools.. and we liked each other.. and we're both girls..
♫ Who knows? Not me We never lost control You're face to face With the man who sold the world ♫
∟ Fear Street: 1978 [2021] Dir: Leigh Janiak
NOOOO I WAS SO EXCITED TO WATCH THIS AFTER WORK
me wearing the stripes of internalized homophobia and fondness for my best friend
not to be that one friend who's too woke but given that queerness and specifically lesbianism is such an integral part of the original fear street trilogy, sam moves to sunnyvale to escape her feelings for deena and remain closeted, cindy viewing her love for alice as part of the curse and forcing herself to be "perfect" and beat it by dating tommy, solomon's vendetta against sarah being specifically because she's gay and that being a central part of why the town persecutes them, sarah sacrificing herself for hannah and her love being so strong it literally carries through centuries, the only lesbian representation in prom queen being a very tired 'lesbian in love with her straight best friend to the point where it is her character trait' just feels like a slap in the face.
I get the point of utilising classic 80's tropes in a film set in the 1980s, but the point should be to interrogate and explore them, not to trot them out without thinking.