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Fear Street Part 1: 1994 (2021) KILL COUNT is the two hundred and ninety-first video of James A. Janisse's series, The Kill Count.
Overview[]
In 1994, Heather Watkins, a bookstore employee, is murdered by her friend Ryan Torres, who had previously shown no indication that he planned on killing her. After murdering her and several mall employees, he is shot to death by the police. The media report the massacre as the norm for Shadyside, which they dub the murder capital of the United States. Meanwhile, the neighboring town of Sunnyvale is its polar opposite, as it is considered one of the richest and safest cities in the country. Many of the Shadyside teenagers believe that this is the result of the witch, Sarah Fier, who placed a curse on the town before being executed for witchcraft in 1666.
Deena Johnson does not believe in the Fier witch and has recently broken up with her closeted girlfriend Sam, who has since moved to Sunnyvale. Josh, her brother, spends his time researching the town's history and her friends Simon and Kate sell drugs in hopes of eventually leaving the town. Deena and Sam meet again at a vigil in Sunnyvale for the victims of the mall killings, where a brawl between the students of Shadyside and Sunnyvale breaks out. While returning home, Sam's new boyfriend, Peter, taunts them, leading Deena to almost throw a large barrel at the car but a sudden nosebleed causes her to lose her grip on the barrel and Peter's car to crash. Sam survives, however before she is taken to the hospital, she sees a vision of Sarah Fier.
The following night, Deena and her friends begin to be stalked by whom they initially believe to be Sam's boyfriend Peter and his friends. However, when Deena and her friends visit Sam, the Skull Mask Killer murders Peter and several others in the hospital, and is revealed to be Ryan. Sam and Deena fail to convince the police while Simon is attacked by Ruby Lane, one of Shadyside's past killers. The group realizes that the accident disturbed the grave of Sarah Fier and that Sam bled on her bones. They attempt to offer her a proper reburial but are attacked by the Camp Nightwing Killer. Realizing that the killers only want Sam and are attracted to her blood, they set a trap at school in an attempt to destroy the killers by burning them, but the killers reform nonetheless.
Sam reluctantly agrees with the group to be sacrificed, despite Deena's protests. They save her when it's discovered that C. Berman, a survivor of the Camp Nightwing massacre in 1978, died but was resuscitated. They attempt to call her, but receive no answer. The group organize a plan to kill and revive Sam using drugs from a supermarket pharmacy, only for Sam to vomit up the pills. The Shadyside killers attack and murder Simon and Kate, as Deena drowns a willing Sam. The killers disappear and Deena revives Sam using a combination of EpiPens and CPR.
Afterwards, the police decide to place the blame on Simon and Kate, as they were known for selling drugs. Sam and Deena reconcile and publicly come out as a couple. Later that night, while Sam is at her house, Deena receives a call back from C. Berman who tells her that there is no escaping the witch. Sam, now possessed, attacks Deena but is subdued and tied up.
Deaths[]
Counted Deaths[]
- Mall Victim #1 - Found slashed & stabbed in mall - 6 mins in (Found Dead)
- Mall Victim #2 - Found slashed & stabbed in mall - 6 mins in (Found Dead)
- Mall Victim #3 - Found slashed & stabbed in mall - 6 mins in (Found Dead)
- Ryan Torres - Shot by Sheriff Goode - 7 mins in
- Heather Watkins - Stabbed by Ryan - 7 mins in
- Peter - Stabbed through back by Skull Mask - 40 mins in
- Stephanie - Stabbed by Skull Mask - 41 mins in
- Nurse Beddy - Stabbed by Skull Mask - 41 mins in
- Ruby Lane's Friend - Throat slit by Ruby in flashback - 48 mins in
- 1950's Housewife - Stabbed to death by Milkman in flashback - 49 mins in
- Billy Barker's Brother - Beaten w/ baseball bat - 49 mins in
- Grifter's Victim - Drowned - 49 mins in
- Kate - Head shoved through bread slicer FUCK YEAH! - 1 hr 25 mins in
- Simon - Hacked in head w/ axe - 1 hr 25 mins in
- Sam Fraser - Drowned by Deena in lobster pee- er, water - 1 hr 26 mins in
Non-Counted Deaths[]
- 2 Other Mall Victims - Killed Offscreen by Ryan (Deaths Mentioned) (for 7 total, Heather, Ryan and 3 bodies found)
- Christina Marlow - Killed off-screen (Mentioned)
- Jessica Van - Killed off-screen (Mentioned)
- Timothy Kalivoda - Died of a drug overdose. (Revived presumably with epipens)
- Ruby's Friend - Throat slit off-screen by Ruby with a straight razor (Mentioned)
- Ruby's Boyfriend - Stabbed to death off-screen by Ruby with a straight razor (Mentioned)
- Ruby Lane - Committed suicide by slitting her wrists with a straight razor. (Mentioned)
Trivia[]
- This is the fourth time a Kill was counted, and later revived. The other three being Countdown (2019) KILL COUNT, Social Mediasochist II (2019) KILL COUNT, and Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997) KILL KOUNT.
- This is the 6th Netflix Original covered on the Kill Count, the others being: Bird Box, Hush, The Babysitter, The Babysitter: Killer Queen, #Alive.
- Kate's death won the Best Kill in the Dead Meat Horror Awards 2022.