The movie Fear Street: Prom Queen
is the fourth part of the Fear Street film series, based on the book The
Prom Queen. It’s set in the year 1988 in the small, troubled town of
Shadyside. The story follows a terrifying prom night at Shadyside High
School, where a masked killer begins hunting down the girls competing to be Prom
Queen.
Our main character is Lori Granger,
a senior student who signs up to run for prom queen. But her competition is the
school’s most popular and meanest group of girls known as the Wolfpack.
The group is led by Tiffany Falconer, along with her friends Melissa
McKendrick, Debbie Winters, and Linda Harper. Tiffany is a
ruthless queen bee who loves to humiliate others. Lori already has a bad
reputation in school because there’s a rumor that her mother killed her
father—though she was found innocent.
The school’s vice principal, Brekenridge,
hopes that this year’s prom will be special and will improve Shadyside’s image.
But that dream dies quickly.
The night before prom, another
candidate for prom queen, Christy Renault, who also sells marijuana to
students, is brutally stabbed to death by a masked killer.
The next day, prom night begins. Lori
goes to the dance with her best friend, Megan Rogers. But Megan plays a
cruel prank on Tiffany by using a fake model of Tiffany’s head, which causes
drama and starts to break her friendship with Lori.
Meanwhile, in a nearby classroom, Linda
and her boyfriend are attacked by the masked killer. Both are mutilated and
killed. Lori receives a bouquet of flowers from an unknown sender. Tiffany uses
the moment to bring up Lori’s mother’s scandal, trying to embarrass her.
Elsewhere in the school basement,
Debbie and her boyfriend Judd sneak away but are also attacked. Judd is
stabbed, and Debbie is electrocuted in the power room.
Back in the dance hall, Melissa helps
Lori fix her makeup, but Tiffany suddenly ends their friendship and even ruins
Melissa’s dress. Lori and Tiffany end up having a dance-off, and surprisingly,
Lori wins the crowd’s attention. This humiliates Tiffany even more. Her
boyfriend Tyler dumps her and starts talking to Lori, who secretly likes
him.
But Melissa doesn’t live long—she’s
killed in the girls’ changing room. It’s here we learn a shocking twist:
there’s not one but two masked killers working together.
Megan approaches Lori, telling her that
she suspects the killer is Devlin, Vice Principal Brekenridge’s overly
religious son. Lori doesn’t believe her and distances herself from Megan.
Later, Megan searches the basement and
finds the bodies of Debbie, Judd, and the school janitor Stoker.
Meanwhile, Lori goes with Tyler to the auditorium, but before anything can
happen, the killer appears and stabs Tyler in the head, killing him instantly.
The killer chases Lori, who eventually finds Megan screaming in the basement.
They manage to escape through a window and rush back to the dance to warn
everyone.
Just then, Lori is announced as Prom
Queen. Before she can say anything, the killer attacks, murdering two
students—Claire and Gerald—and chopping off Principal
Wayland’s arm (though he survives). Lori grabs her crown and uses it as a
weapon, stabbing the killer. The mask comes off, revealing the killer to be Dan
Falconer—Tiffany’s father.
The police arrest Dan, Megan is rushed
to the hospital, and Lori goes home with Tiffany, who now seems apologetic. But
the nightmare isn’t over. Tiffany’s mother Nancy returns home and
reveals herself as the second killer. Tiffany also shows her true colors
and tries to stab Lori, confessing she was part of the plan.
Nancy explains that years ago, she
killed Lori’s father because he left her for Lori’s mother. Lori fights back,
pushing Tiffany over a stair railing. Tiffany falls onto a sharp hallway
decoration and dies instantly. Nancy attacks Lori, but Lori grabs a trophy and
repeatedly hits her until she dies.
As Nancy’s life ends, her blood
mysteriously forms the Witch’s Mark, hinting at Shadyside’s dark curse continuing.
The film ends with Lori escaping the
bloody house, alive—but forever changed by the horrors of prom night.
