“Fear Street: Part Two- 1978” (** out of four) was an undernourished horror thriller in which school is out for the summer and a bunch of students and camp counselors (Sadie Sink, Emily Rudd, Ryan Simpkins, and others) gather at Camp Nightwing for some fun festivities but everything turns to havoc when another gruesome murderer is on the loose and they all have to band together to survive. Director Leigh Janiak throws in some buoyant ’70’s soundtrack songs to keep things lively and film composer Marco Beltrami cannily rehashes parts of the scores for “The Omen” and “Friday The 13th” but it’s a lot of energy expended over nothing, since the story and script are threadbare. Bizarrely- this was the second in the trilogy but was actually filmed last.

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