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WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Fear Street Part 1: 1994, now streaming on Netflix.
In Fear Street Part 1: 1994, the dour town of Shadyside is once more rocked by a string of violent murders, continuing a sadistic trend that’s been happening for decades. It’s linked to a witch, Sarah Fier, with hauntings and possessions all said to be part of her revenge scheme after she was burned to death in 1666 for heresy.
Many of the citizens deem these notions to be the work of conspiracy theorists, but as Deena (Kiana Madeira) and her teenage crew realize, the hype is real. With that in mind, let’s dissect all the kills in the first part of Netflix and R.L. Stine’s Fear Street trilogy.
HEATHER
Maya Hawke’s Heather opens the film as she closes the bookstore that she’s working at in the mall. She’s prank called by her buddy, Ryan (David W. Thompson), who works at the mall too. As he goes to close his store up and put his sex doll back, Heather, unfortunately, ends up coming face to face with the Skull Mask slasher.
She thinks it’s another prank but is quickly pursued and sliced up in a clear homage to Drew Barrymore in Scream. Heather gets the upper hand, smacking Skull Mask for a bit, but as she tries to flee in the food court, he pounces on her and stabs her to death.
RYAN
As a dying Heather pulls off the skull mask, her attacker’s revealed to be none other than Ryan himself. However, he’s got a pale, entranced look on his face, hinting that there’s something way more sinister at play as he did seem to be a chill, playful dude and an overall good friend to her.
But as the fiend commits the murder, basking in the stabbings, he’s met with a gunshot straight through the head thanks to Sheriff Nick. This isn’t the last we see of Ryan, though, as the witch resurrects him to kill the girl Deena loves, Sam (Olivia Scott Welch), and ensure that they pay for desecrating her gravesite.
PETER
Peter’s (Jeremy Ford) the jock who Sam’s now dating after she left Shadyside and moved to the upper-class Sunnyvale. He’s seen groping her when the rival towns and high schools meet for Heather’s vigil, pissing Deena off and driving a wedge between her and Sam as Deena thinks Sam couldn’t handle being an out lesbian with her.
Peter looks down on Shadyside and sees it as an epicenter for bloodshed, insulting and getting into a fight later on with the Shadyside football players. It culminates in a prank gone awry as his crew decides to chase the Shadyside bus. Deena drops a Gatorade cooler on Peter’s car from the bus, resulting in Sam having to be admitted to the Shadyside hospital after their car crashes. Pete finds Deena there but just as he’s about to spew his hatred once more, he’s impaled from the back by Skull Mask/Ryan, causing the girls to flee and hide.
BEDDY
Nurse Beddy’s the person who gets Deena, her little brother Josh (Benjamin Flores Jr.) and their crew in to visit Sam at the hospital. Deena was feeling guilty over her act and desperately wants to let Sam know she’s there for her, as she still loves her.
Luckily, Beddy buys drugs from Kate (Julia Rehwald) and despite resistance from the secretary, he gets them into the ICU. Sadly, this ends up biting him in the butt. As Skull Mask goes on his rampage to find Sam, once he stabs Peter to death, he kills the secretary. He then puts a blade through Beddy’s throat as the goofy nurse strolls in, leaving Deena and Sam even more petrified.
KATE
Kate initially wants to let Skull Mask and the other slashers — Ruby Lane and the Camp Nightwing axe-man — kill Sam as Josh realizes the murderers are fulfilling a blood oath to Sarah. Sam bonded to the witch as her blood fell on the gravesite, so Sarah’s avatars are tracking her like sharks smelling blood in water. However, they come up with a new plan — bait the attackers away from Sam, so that Deena can kill and resurrect her.
The plan’s to use a pill concoction Kate comes up with along with Simon (Fred Hechinger), with an EpiPen then being the means to revive Sam. Technically, she’d die so she’d be free of Sarah’s curse, but at the grocery they’re hiding out in, things go haywire. Skull Mask ends up finding Kate, smashing her head into a cake before gutting her. He then finishes her Mortal Kombat-style by running her head through a bread slicer in a very sadistic fatality.
SIMON
When Josh and Simon find Kate’s mangled head, they freeze in devastation. Josh is stunned as he loved Kate, while Simon was her best friend. What makes it worse is that Kate was actually a really selfless hero, doing anything to help the squad out, as she, like Simon, didn’t have any real family. But before Simon can flee with Josh, Nightwing sneaks up from an aisle and drops his axe onto Simon’s head.
It’s an instant kill, sending Josh screaming. This hurts as much as the Kate murder, especially as Simon also painted himself with Sam’s blood to draw the slashers away as a form of misdirection. He successfully lured the Ruby Lane slasher out, but like Kate, he pays the ultimate price for caring about his friends.
SAM
As Skull Mask finds Josh and is about to kill him, Deena locates a lobster tank. The pill mission has been botched with all these slashers descending at once so Deena ends up drowning Sam in the tank in a heartbreaking moment. It results in all the slashers disappearing as Sam’s death means the witch’s vendetta has been completed.
Deena tries to use the EpiPens but they jam, so she’s forced to resort to CPR to resuscitate her lover. Thankfully, Sam’s revived, escaping drowning and an overdose, coming back to her beloved. However, the cost is high as they’ve lost fearless allies in this war on the occult. Ultimately, Sam’s resurrection comes with a price, as the witch does manage to take hold of her and prise her soul away from Deena.
Directed and co-written by Leigh Janiak, Fear Street stars 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 now streaming on Netflix, followed by Part Two: 1978 on July 9 and Part Three: 1666 on July 16.
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