History Trivia / FearStreet

* InspirationForTheWork: Director Leigh Janiak has not been coy in how she looked to classic slasher films such as ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' and ''Film/{{Scream}}'' in order to craft the first two entries, 1994 and 1978. She even hired original Scream composer Marco Beltrami to help craft the score for the trilogy.

* OfficialFanSubmittedContent: A contest was held to let the fans decide what should happen in ''The Best Friend 2''.

* NamesTheSame: Camp Nightwing from ''Lights Out'' is not to be confused with [[Literature/{{Goosebumps}} Count Nightwing]]. (Or that [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} other Nightwing]] for that matter.)

* NamesTheSame: There is a neighbourhood in Pensylvania called "Shadyside" and a city in California called "Sunnyvale".

* ActingForTwo: [[UpToEleven A cast-wide example.]] The central cast of Part 1 and Part 2 are used to portray the early settlers of Shadyside and Sunnyvale in Part 3.

* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/GillianJacobs, who is known for portraying LargeHam KnowNothingKnowItAll Britta Perry in ''Series/{{Community}}'', portrays a more subdued, smart and calm but traumatized survivor of the Camp Nightwing massacre [[spoiler: Christine "Ziggy"]] Berman.

* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/GillianJacobs who is known for portraying LargeHam InsufferableImbecile Britta Perry in ''Series/{{Community}}'' portrays a more subdued, smart and calm but traumatised survivor of the Camp Nightwing massacre [[spoiler: Christine "Ziggy"]] Berman.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The books were written in the late 80s/early 90s, as such, some of the plots wouldn't really work today. There are several books where the characters are unsure if someone is some kind of ghost or still alive, and often spend hours at the library looking through newspaper archives to try to find an obituary. Nowadays they could most likely just Google the person. The reprint for ''The New Girl'' actually updates the latter so that they indeed use the internet.
** Lampshaded by Stine in a few interviews, as he states that the hardest part of writing the revival books is finding a way around cell phones, as they would resolve a good chunk of the plots.

* TypeCasting:

** Tommy was likewise supposed to get his sack mask much earlier in ''1978''. However, due to ''1666'' being filmed before that one, [=McCabe=] Slye portrayed Mad Thomas first. His performance impressed Leigh Janiak so much that she changed ''1978'' so that Tommy wouldn't get the mask put on until nearer the end - allowing his face to be seen for the majority of the story.

* WordOfGay: While it isn't confirmed in the film itself, [[https://pridesource.com/article/how-fear-street-became-queer-street/ both Ryan Simpkins and Leigh Janiak consider Alice from 1978 to be gay]]. Ryan says they still played it that way even though it wasn't in the script directly.

** There are however aversions; Sadie Sink was eighteen playing Ziggy (who mentions that it's her last year at camp, implying she could be the same age), Benjamin Flores Jr was seventeen as Josh, and Julia Rehwald was eighteen as Kate.

** There are however aversions; Sadie Sink was eighteen playing Ziggy (who mentions that it's her last year at camp, implying she could be the same age), Benjamin Flores Jr was seventeen as Josh.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: There was [[https://variety.com/1997/film/news/stine-s-fear-street-haunts-h-wood-pics-1116674642/ an attempt]] to make a Fear Street film in the late 90's, possibly being based on ''Scream, Jennifer, Scream!''. It didn't get anywhere though.

* CreatorCouple: Director Leigh Janiak co-wrote the screenplay with her partner Phil Graziadei.

* CreatorsFavourite: Inverted. Sadie Sink, Darrell Britt-Gibson, and Creator/GillianJacobs have all said that they found the Milkman killer the scariest while on set. Benjamin Flores Jr.'s was Nightwing. And Ashley Zukerman found [[spoiler:Nick Goode]] the scariest due to the fact he was aware of what he was doing.

* CreatorsFavourite: Inverted. Sadie Sink, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Creator/GillianJacobs have all said that they found the Milkman killer the scariest while on set. Benjamin Flores Jr.'s was Nightwing. And Ashley Zukerman found [[spoiler:Nick Goode]] the scariest due to the fact he was aware of what he was doing.

* ProductionPosse: Maya Hawke, who plays Heather, and Sadie Sink, who plays Ziggy, both work on ''Series/StrangerThings''. Creator/GillianJacobs and Ryan Simpkins, who play C. Berman and Alice in Part 2 respectively, appeared in the drama film Gardens of the Night.

** Note that the book series is set in Massachusetts (look to The Fear Street Saga as one example, which has scenes set in Shadyside take place in sections of the books labeled “Massachusetts Bay Colony”), but somehow the misinformation that it’s set in Ohio has proliferated the Internet.

* {{Blooper}}: Josh is seen using a computer with the Calibri font, despite the fact that the font wasn't introduced until 2007, a full 13 years after the film's setting.

* ChannelHop: As detailed below, the trilogy was intended to kick off theatrically with a monthly schedule beginning in June 2020. However, after the COVID-19 Pandemic and the distributor change, the films are now being released weekly on Netflix from July 2nd to July 16th.