Fear Street has now completed its trilogy and revealed all about the curse that had haunted Shadyside for centuries, but is this really the end?
The credits of Fear Street Part 3: 1666 had a final shocker in store for fans as we saw the widow's book of spells being taken by somebody. It's a fair bet that the book was taken by somebody with knowledge of what it could do, namely make a deal with the Devil to get anything you want, so Shadyside might not be free just yet.
Talking to Collider, Leigh Janiak – who directed and co-wrote all three movies – confirmed that the credits scene isn't just a fun beat for fans, they do "have ideas" for how Fear Street can continue past this trilogy.
Those ideas might include Janiak's vision to turn the series into a horror version of the MCU, given that there's a lot of source material to draw from in RL Stine's books and a way to spin out from the original story in the trilogy.
"One of the things that I talked about before I was hired was that we have a potential here to create a horror Marvel, where you can have slasher killers from lots of different eras," she told IndieWire.
"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... I think that my hope is that audiences like it enough that we can start building out [more], we can think about what another trilogy would be, what standalones would be, what TV would be.
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"I don't even think about it like TV or movies exactly anymore. That's the great thing about Netflix and about what Fear Street is, which is kind of a hybrid new thing. I'm excited about the possibility of what else can happen."
Each part of the trilogy has been Netflix's most-watched movie globally in the weekend of its release, so it certainly looks from the outside as though Fear Street has been a hit for the streaming service.
Actual viewing figures are harder to find which means we'll have to wait for official word from Netflix as to how well the trilogy did, especially if they wait to see if anybody binged the trilogy once all three movies were released, rather than week-by-week.
As a result, nothing has been officially confirmed yet by Netflix, but we can certainly speculate on what Fear Street Part 4 would look like, if it was officially confirmed.
Fear Street 4 release date: When can we expect Fear Street 4?
The original trilogy was filmed back-to-back from March-September 2019 ahead of a planned June 2020 release in cinemas.
Netflix then bought the trilogy when the movies were pulled from the release schedule as a result of the ongoing global situation. The trilogy finally debuted on July 2, July 9 and July 16, around a year after the planned initial release.
Unless they've already filmed the fourth movie in secret, we won't be seeing it until 2022 at the earliest and even that feels like a tight turnaround unless production starts soon. July 2023 seems like a safer bet if they want to stick to the summer release schedule.
Of course, if they decide to go for the TV series route for the next Fear Street instalment, that'll affect production times and we might be waiting a bit longer.
Fear Street 4 cast: Who's coming back for Fear Street 4?
If the next Fear Street instalment picks up directly from the cliffhanger of the third movie, there's only a handful of characters who could return.
The main characters alive at the end of Part 3 are Deena (Kiana Madeira), Sam (Olivia Scott Welch), Ziggy (Gillian Jacobs), Josh (Benjamin Flores Jr), Martin (Darrell Britt-Gibson) and Mrs Lane (Jordana Spiro).
It could well be that all of them are drawn into a new curse affecting Shadyside, but that might feel a bit too similar to the original trilogy. We think it's more likely a new Fear Street movie (or show) would take place in a different time setting – and Janiak has already been thinking about when.
"I really started getting excited about a '50s slasher movie, which I haven't really seen and what that means," she told IndieWire. "It's just cool to think about the different eras and what's possible as a horror fan."
A different era might not rule out return appearances though as we saw in Part 3 when the trilogy went all the way back to 1666.
Fear Street 4 trailer: Any Fear Street 4 footage yet?
It hasn't been confirmed by Netflix, so there isn't any footage yet as it (probably) hasn't been filmed. You'll just have to rewatch the trilogy instead.
The entire Fear Street trilogy is available to watch on Netflix.
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Movies Editor, Digital Spy Ian has more than 10 years of movies journalism experience as a writer and editor. Starting out as an intern at trade bible Screen International, he was promoted to report and analyse UK box-office results, as well as carving his own niche with horror movies, attending genre festivals around the world. After moving to Digital Spy, initially as a TV writer, he was nominated for New Digital Talent of the Year at the PPA Digital Awards. He became Movies Editor in 2019, in which role he has interviewed 100s of stars, including Chris Hemsworth, Florence Pugh, Keanu Reeves, Idris Elba and Olivia Colman, become a human encyclopedia for Marvel and appeared as an expert guest on BBC News and on-stage at MCM Comic-Con. Where he can, he continues to push his horror agenda – whether his editor likes it or not.
