Director Leigh Janiak talks to EW about her terrifying Netflix trilogy and killing people with bread slicers.
Warning: This article contains spoilers forall threeFear Streetmovies.
How did you figure out how to make that evolution work across the three movies?
Kiana Madeira in ‘Fear Street Part 3: 1666.'.Netflix
That idea of the town’s favorite sons being the ultimate villains plays into that theme really well.
I think that that, obviously, is something that we feel in our everyday life.
And, you know, the first version of this is Solomon Goode.
Ted Sutherland and Sadie Sink in ‘Fear Street Part 2: 1978’.Netflix
He believes that he should have prosperity in this new world that he’s not getting.
He kind of has a crush on Sarah Fier, and Sarah Fier’s not interested in him.
That was a really important thing to explore, I think.
Gillian Jacobs, Benjamin Flores Jr., and Darrell Britt-Gibson in ‘Fear Street Part 3’.Netflix
He chose history, I guess.
Can you expand on your thinking there and how that idea developed?
To me, that’s a very relatable feeling.
Kiana Madeira and Olivia Scott Welch in ‘Fear Street Part 3: 1666’.Netflix
But here we could go on this journey with them, and we could give them that hope.
You know, I’ve had this conversation with Darrell [Britt-Gibson], who plays Martin.
and you’re surprised when he doesn’t die.
And then he gets to live!
You do kill a lot of other characters, though.
How did you conceive and execute all those wild deaths throughout the trilogy?
So it was kind of like, “How many ways can you destroy someone with an axe?”
When we get into movie three, we obviously kill all of those children.
That’s my favorite, I’m going to be honest.
[Laughs] And Julia was just so convincing.
It was just so visceral.
They were like, “Oh my God, what did you do to Julia?”
Was that the intention there?
This interview has been edited and condensed for length and clarity.
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