The new trailer for Fear Street: Prom Queen is arriving just in time for prom season to start across the country. The movie continues the franchise that started with the Fear Street trilogy and based on the R.L. Stine novel The Prom Queen. It releases on May 23rd on Netflix.

Prom at Shadyside High is underway and the school’s It Girls are busy jockeying for the crown. But when the candidates start to disappear, a gutsy outsider learns she’s in for one hell of a prom night.

India Fowler, Suzanna Son, Fina Strazza, Chris Klein, David Iacono, Ella Rubin, Ariana Greenblatt, Lili Taylor, and Katherine Waterston star.

It also features Darrin Baker, Rebecca Ablack, Ilan O’Driscoll, Damian Romeo, Dakota Taylor, Eden Summer Gilmore, Brennan Clost, Cecilia Lee, and Ryan Rosery.

Matt Palmer directs the film from a script he also co-wrote with Donald McLeary.

The original Fear Street book series took on a more edgy and “adult” vibe than its aimed-for-younger-audiences Goosebumps. The series has sold more than 80 million copies and started in 1989 with The New Girl and features 51 books total. There’s now more than 100 spinoff entries as well.

The Fear Street series focuses more on teenagers who live in the fictitious town of Shadyside. The older characters and more dangerous storylines are what set it apart from Goosebumps. Here’s what Stine had to say about writing for older audiences.

“That’s the best audience in the world, the 7 to 11 [age]. I get them the last time in their lives they’ll ever be enthusiastic. At 7 to 11, they want to read you, they want to buy things. They want to know you, They want to write to you. They want to meet you. They’re incredible. Then they turn 12, they discover sex, they have to be cool and they’re gone.”

What Does This Mean For Fear Street And What Can We Expect?

This release date puts Fear Street: Prom Queen right in the midst of Prom season across the United States. Teenagers will be going to dance the night away with their crushes and we all can sit at home to enjoy the slasher. From the looks of it, they’re capturing the vibes and essence of the classic young adult novels. The original trilogy brought in pieces of the various subgenres of horror but kept it close to a slasher through it all. This film looks to do the same with ’80s-theming and hopefully, some more gruesome kills.

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