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Netflix is planning to return to Fear Street with a bunch of new movies. During an interview with Yahoo! Entertainment, author R.L Stine lifted the lid on ‘rumors’ that Netflix will be heading back to Shadyside.

“I hear rumors about more Fear Street movies for Netflix, because the first ones did so well last summer,” he revealed. “Those films kind of shocked me, because they were all R-rated, and I've never done anything R-rated! All those teenagers were getting slashed. I was like, ‘Suddenly, I have a slasher movie!’”

The hit Netflix films were based on R.L. Stine’s Fear Street novels and tell the story of a group of teenagers who set out to break a curse that’s been looming over their town for hundreds of years.

Fear Street Part One: 1994 debuted in July 2021, with Fear Street Part Two: 1978 released the following week and Fear Street Part Three: 1666 released the week after. Now, it sounds as though there might be a part four… and the folks at Bloody Disgusting” seemingly confirm the rumors that it's "deep in development."

This wouldn’t be the first time we’ve heard rumors about Fear Street heading back to our screens, and even director Leigh Janiak thinks the series has got legs.

“One of the things that I talked about before I was hired was that we have a potential here to create a horror Marvel [Cinematic Universe], where you can have slasher killers from lots of different eras,” she explained. “You have the canon of our main mythology that's built around the fact that the devil lives in Shadyside, so there's also room for everything else.”

Fear Street: Part One 1994 revealed the horror of the town's 300-year-old curse, while Part Two: 1978 explored the town’s witchy history. Part Three took audiences back to where the story truly began… but it seems there’s plenty of story left to tell. After all, the third film did end on a cliffhanger.

The 31 Best Modern Horror Movies

Horror movies come in many shapes and sizes, and the past two decades of the genre have certainly produced a ton of great films that are also as varied as they come. We’ve gotten sympathetic kid vampires, dizzyingly disturbing new yarns about colonial New England, fresh variations on the classic zombie story, remakes of oldies but goodies that bring something meaningful to the table, parental/child dissonance couched in a storybook monster, and so much more.<p> Yeah, the 21st century has been a good time to be a horror fan. And so join us in celebrating the form with IGN’s list of the 31 best modern horror movies. (We’ll let you figure out why we picked the number 31…) As for how we made our selections, we weighed several factors, including overall quality, scare potential, originality, thematic weight, impact on the genre, and of course good old Editor's Choice.<p> Read on for IGN’s picks for the 31 Best Horror Movies!<b>31. Malignant:</b> Let’s get this out of the way first: Malignant is, indeed, weird as hell. But aren’t all the best horror movies? The word “wild” has been a widely used, and completely appropriate descriptor for James Wan’s latest masterful and effective storytelling in the horror genre. And as brow-furrowing as its familiar horror trope mishmash beginnings are, Malignant trades on its initial scenes with one of horror’s all-time best pay-offs possible. Even its early hints manage to coalesce to catch you off-guard ultimately. At the top, Malignant explores a fairly well-trodden plot introduction by focusing on a woman suffering from horrifying visions of brutal murders by an unfeeling (and unknown) murderer. But the movie simultaneously leads you down less explored paths as its mysteries open up, rapidly shifting from slow pace teases to full-on action that is surprising and delightful (and a little chuckle-worthy). The vicious scenes are complemented by incredible (and, sure, incredibly over-exaggerated) choreography that really drives at the heart of what makes Malignant great. After a frenetic intro that tricks you into thinking it’ll be just another haunting tale, Malignant ends up being quite an enjoyable ride that indulges in its absurdity in the best way. -Tina Amini View 32 Images<b>30. The Devil's Rejects:</b> One of the few horror sequels that’s vastly superior to its predecessor, Rob Zombie’s The Devil’s Rejects picks up with the homicidal Firefly family seven months after the horrific Halloween Sacrifice in House of 1000 Corpses. After narrowly escaping from a shoot-out with a posse of state troopers and one Texas Sheriff—who’s thirsty for blood and drunk on revenge—Otis, Baby, and local TV clown Captain Spaulding go on a rampage, torturing and murdering their way across the U.S. southwest. But what makes The Devil’s Rejects really stand out is the sadistic family played by Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, and Sheri Moon Zombie. Because they are just that: a family.They play fully fleshed-out characters, with long-standing and complex relationships, who truly care about each other. The movie is also disturbingly funny, but not like other horror movies, which include deliberate moments of levity separate from the violence. Instead, the Firefly family cracks jokes like the Seven Dwarfs whistle (while they work), but instead of diamond mining, it’s murder. Oh, and the film also features cinema’s best use of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Free Bird.” -Michael Calabro <b>29. Rec:</b> Rec is hardly the first or the last horror movie to adopt the found-footage format, but it’s certainly among the most effective. This Spanish-language film follows an enterprising news team who accompany a group of firefighters, only to discover far more than they bargained for inside an apartment complex. By combining the shaky-cam format with elements of zombie and demonic possession movies, Rec truly captures the feeling of being locked inside a deathtrap. It’s no wonder this horror film inspired three sequels and an English-language remake. -Jesse Schedeen<b>28. One Cut of the Dead:</b> This Japanese Zom-com, shot on a shoestring ¥3 million ($25,000), is a love letter to both zombie movies and the trials and tribulations that come with low-budget filmmaking. The film starts with a small film crew shooting a zombie movie at an abandoned water filtration plant. The director, who desperately needs the film to succeed, paints a blood pentagram in the haunted plant to summon real zombies. The single-take film follows the cast and crew as they fight off the zombies after the director deliberately puts them in harm’s way for the camera. Of course, this first section of One Cut of the Dead is chock-full of b-movie shlock and amateurish acting, but what makes the film great is everything that happens after the “film” within the film finishes. Two-thirds of the movie is basically the “making of” of the first third. And it follows the IRL actors through pre-production and the actual shoot of the film’s first third. Director Shin'ichirō Ueda turns what feels like shoddy filmmaking in the first part into jokes that really pay off in the second half when the audience learns the real-life reasons for some questionable creative decisions. More than that, the film even manages to squeeze out a touching ending that really tugs on the heartstrings of anyone who has ever tried to make a movie with almost no money. -Michael Calabro <b>27 Candyman (2021):</b> This thoughtful sequel/reboot to the 1990s supernatural slasher franchise follows the adult Anthony McCoy, a visual artist with a connection to the original film whose exploration of the urban legend of Candyman unleashes murder and mayhem. Nia DaCosta's timely, visceral film digs deeper into the ideas suggested in the earlier films' depiction of Candyman's painful legacy, while also pivoting the mythos into a new, yet appropriate direction. -Jim Vejvoda

IGN’s own review called Fear Street Part One: 1994 “a film rich with character, world-building, Easter eggs, and scares. Horror fans will be grinning over a visual allusion, then be pulled to the edge of their seat by this slaughter-packed adventure, then catch themselves screaming at a harrowingly portrayed murder. Those who aren’t in the club may not understand its dark allure. But for the rest of us, Janiak delivers top-notch horror that relishes teen angst, terror, and the unadulterated thrills of Fear Street. And this is just the start…”

The first film even made our own list of the best horror films of 2021.

Ryan Leston is an entertainment journalist and film critic for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

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