Shadyside is about to get even scarier. Well, at least according to R.L. Stine. Netflix is producing at least three more Fear Street movies. The master of middle-grade horror is on the press tour for Disney+’s Goosebumps: The Vanishing, which premieres on January 10th, 2025. Here’s what he had to say to The Hollywood Reporter.

“The writers are working. So I’ve got my fingers crossed.”

The three new films will follow the massively successful 2021 trilogy on Netflix from director Leigh Janiak. It’ll also follow up the fourth film which is coming out later this year, The Prom Queen. That film has already finished filming and is slated for sometime in 2025. The original Fear Street book series took on a more edgy and “adult” vibe than it’s 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 to THR 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?

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Well, we’ll have to see how The Prom Queen turns out first, but from the trailer of that film and the vibes of the previous Fear Street trilogy, we can expect more slasher/supernatural goodness from this new threesome of movies. The Fear Street trilogy captivated horror fans and general audiences in 2021 coming out of the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic. It gave people three weeks of anticipation in one of the bigger successes in marketing and releases for the streaming giant.

This new film should set the tone for what we can expect out of the series at Netflix.

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Source: THR

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