Fear Street Part 1: 1994

Shadyside, Ohio, 1994. The town is infamous — a place that produces serial killers, where bad things happen and always have. When a Shadyside teen goes on a killing spree at the Sunnyvale mall, it barely registers as unusual. Deena Johnson is still nursing her breakup with Sam Fraser, who moved to neighboring Sunnyvale. A car accident on the road between the towns changes everything: Sam stumbles into an old grove, her blood touches buried bones, and something very old wakes up.

The bones belong to Sarah Fier — the legendary Shadyside witch, hanged in 1666, blamed ever since for the town's curse. With Sam's blood as a connection, the curse activates. The dead killers of Shadyside's history reanimate and begin hunting Sam with terrifying single-mindedness.

Deena, her younger brother Josh, and their friends work desperately to understand the curse. Their research leads to a theory: kill Sam to sever the witch's hold, then revive her. They execute it — epinephrine, a brief clinical death, a resuscitation. The killers stop. Sam comes back. It seems to work.

It doesn't hold. Sam recovers, but something of the witch remains in her. She's changing — colder, more dangerous, and then violent. Deena's friends aren't all making it out. The curse doesn't give up its hold simply because the host died and came back.

Sam ends up under the full influence of the curse, and Deena can't reach her. Josh, still digging through the town's history, realizes the truth about Sarah Fier goes much deeper than the legend. The fight isn't over — it's only just found its real shape.