Fear Street: Prom Queen
Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): May 23, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
9
Negative:
4

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
IndieWireAlison ForemanMay 23, 2025
"Prom Queen” blitzes through familiar pop-comic vignettes, only pausing to make its loathsome characters’ adolescent nightmares just a little bit freakier. Read full review
70
ColliderLuna GuthrieMay 23, 2025
It's not breaking any new ground, but Prom Queen is a solid enough teen slasher that does a nice job of continuing the ever-expanding universe of R.L. Stine. Read full review
60
Screen RantDani Kessel OdomMay 23, 2025
2021 was an excellent year for slasher fans, and the Fear Street trilogy was one of the big reasons why. Four years later, Fear Street: Prom Queen, which exists in the same town and timeline but functions as a standalone, continues the fun. Read full review
60
TheWrapWilliam BibbianiMay 23, 2025
Fear Street: Prom Queen is not the best Fear Street movie. But to be fair, it’s probably the third best Prom Night.
50
Paste MagazineJim VorelMay 23, 2025
Unfortunately, Fear Street: Prom Queen simultaneously goes out of its way to steal directly from all its major influences, demonstrating little if any original thought. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comClint WorthingtonMay 23, 2025
Problem is, this doesn’t reinvent the formula as much as follows it by rote, which makes it an enormous step down. Read full review
45
The Daily BeastNick SchagerMay 23, 2025
Cartoonishly gory and drearily unoriginal and predictable, it’s a collection of tired devices and shout-outs that plays like training wheels slasher cinema. Read full review
40
IGNKatie RifeMay 23, 2025
Fear Street: Prom Queen fails to channel both the outrageous aesthetics and the brutal violence of the films it’s imitating, making this indifferently made exercise in YA horror supremely skippable. Read full review
40
VarietyDennis HarveyMay 23, 2025
Reprising high-school slasher cliches dating back at least to 1980’s “Prom Night,” minus any particular invention or irony, this new entry is a slick-enough but disappointingly unimaginative effort that can’t even be bothered to reference the mythology established in the prior films. Read full review
40
SlashfilmChris EvangelistaMay 23, 2025
After the original "Fear Street" trilogy, I was itching to return to Shadyside. It was not worth the wait. Read full review
40
The GuardianBenjamin LeeMay 23, 2025
A misfire not quite bad or powerful enough to undo Janiak’s great work but one that questions whether the world of Fear Street is one we need to spend much more time exploring. If the introductory trilogy started us off on a thrilling journey, here we’re brought to a sudden dead end. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineDerek SmithMay 23, 2025
Like its predecessors, the film is an often awkward mix of YA drama and R-rated gore. Read full review
25
Movie NationRoger MooreMay 28, 2025
No characters in this are developed enough to invest in them or pin them down as suspects. At about the time Blood Red Raincoat Killer whips out a circular saw, which is as inventive as the murders get, the movie invites us to check out. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubNatalia KeoganMay 23, 2025
Fear Street: Prom Queen doesn’t merely fall flat dramatically, but dashes any opportunity for visual intrigue in terms of cinematography, costume design, and, most vitally, its on-screen carnage. Read full review
20
EmpireBecky DarkeMay 29, 2025
This deeply disappointing new Fear Street instalment leans too hard into worn-out tropes and excessive gore, at the expense of fun, engaging characters or any genuine scares. Read full review
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