Fear Street: Prom Queen: Plot and Release Date of Netflix’s New Horror Movie?

DavidMay 20, 2025Last Updated: May 20, 2025

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Fear Street: Prom Queen is not far away from its release date. After the success of the three previous chapters, set in the turbulent years ’90, ’70, and even in the seventeenth century, the horror saga of “Fear Street” returns in style with a new chapter all 80s. “Fear Street: Prom Queen” revolves around the sparkling atmosphere of Shadyside High’s prom, but soon the dream of elegance and disco lights leaves room for a ruthless hunt for a serial killer. Directed by Matt Palmer and written together with Donald McLeary, this high-voltage adaptation takes up the novel “The Prom Queen” by R.L. Stine, bringing a story to Netflix directly from one of the author’s most famous books.

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Fear Street: Prom Queen: The Plot

We are in the spring of 1988. Between raids in the corridors covered with pop posters and VHS tapes, pupils and students of Shadyside High prepare for the most awaited night of the year: the prom. A group of ambitious girls is fighting to win the “prom queen” crown, but when a surprise name appears on the scoreboard and the girls start to disappear one after the other, the party turns into a nightmare. The young high school detective, fixed presence of previous films, understands that Shadyside’s ancient curse, believed to have been extinct since 1666, is still alive. Suspense and moments of pure fun purely eighties are a must, while history reconstructs the darkest secrets kept among the pews, bringing in vogue bogeymen of the past and new ghosts in flesh and blood.

This is the first direct adaptation to the literary saga: unlike previous films, this fourth episode is faithfully inspired by the novel “The Prom Queen” (1992) by R.L. Stine. For its part, the director Matt Palmer immerses the viewer in the analog atmospheres of the decade thanks to sequences shot with the aesthetics of video-cassettes, accompanied by a soundtrack that ranges from synths to hit pop of those years.