Contains spoilers for Fear Street Part 1: 1994

The first part of Netflix horror trilogy Fear Street has now arrived on the streaming service. It’s an homage to ‘90s slashers based on the Fear Street books by R.L. Stine and it is set in the town of Shadyside, a place riddled with tragedy. Is the town itself cursed? That’s what the series of three films will explore (the next two installments will be arriving weekly).

Part one begins with a seemingly unprovoked massacre in a mall, which ends in further tragedy as the masked killer is gunned down by police. But later, that same killer seems to be active again and he’s joined by a whole host of other monsters from the past intent on taking down the residents of Shadyside.

We learn that these are people from the past who have been possessed by Sarah Fier (exactly...