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Fear Street: 1978 (2021)

★ 7.2 · 2,213 ratings on TMDB

Find the truth.

Fear Street: 1978 poster★ 7.2

In 1978, two rival groups at Camp Nightwing must band together to solve a terrifying mystery when horrors from their towns' history come alive.

DirectorLeigh Janiak
CastBenjamin Flores Jr., Emily Rudd, Gillian Jacobs, Kiana Madeira, Matthew Zuk, McCabe Slye
GenresDrama, Horror, Mystery
The emergence reading

Fear Street: 1978 keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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