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The opening scene in Fear Street: 1994 changes things up with its killer in the opening scene.
WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Fear Street Part 1: 1994, available on Netflix now.
Fear Street Part 1: 1994 starts off on a rather predictable note; a masked killer with a knife chases down and kills a young woman in a dark place. However, that’s when the predictability for the film ends because, before the end of the first sequence, Fear Street takes a major slasher expectation and tosses it aside. As the victim dies, she tears off the killer’s mask, revealing his identity instantly.
Heather works the late shift at Shadyside Mall’s bookstore and locks up when she gets a call from her boyfriend, Ryan Torres. He works at an adjacent store, but the call goes dead, so they both go out to see each other. Ryan scares her at first but then agrees to give her a ride home as an apology. As they part ways to finish closing up, a voice calls to Ryan, and he thinks it’s Heather. That isn’t the case.
When Heather returns to the bookstore, she is put off by strange noises. She even thinks Ryan is back to scare her again, but she is sorely mistaken. A man in a skull mask appears out of nowhere to kill her. At first, her instincts save her when she blocks the knife with a book and quickly makes a break for it. She runs to find her boyfriend, but he is nowhere to be found, so Heather tries to call the police from behind a store counter. Unfortunately, she attracts the masked killer in the process, and he slashes her across the abdomen before she makes a last-ditch effort to flee.
As a wounded Heather runs away, the killer catches her and impales her twice more on his knife. Before she dies, Heather reaches up and strips the mask off of the killer to reveal it’s Ryan. A beat later, the sheriff fires his gun and shoots Ryan dead. The opening sequence is predictable except for the ending. Typically, slasher films keep their killer’s identity a secret, at least until the ending. Here, viewers don’t even make it out of the first sequence before the killer is unmasked and shot dead.
Of course, there is a lot more going on with this killer than a typical slasher film, but the opening reveal of the killer’s identity and his death is an interesting twist to a popular genre. It also reveals that there is a much bigger, stranger thing at play in Killer Capital USA, especially as Ryan comes back to life to cause more chaos.
Directed and co-written by Leigh Janiak, the Fear Street trilogy stars Sadie Sink, Kiana Madeira, Olivia Welch, Benjamin Flores Jr., Darrell Britt-Gibson, Ashley Zukerman, Fred Hechinger, Julia Rehwald, Jeremy Ford and Gillian Jacobs. Part One: 1994 is available now on Netflix, followed by Part Two: 1978 on July 9 and Part Three: 1666 on July 16.
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