I wanted to like the film. The girls are beautiful, it's an R. Stine R rated adaptation, it's a trilogy. I really wanted to be entertained for five hours. However the film just felt... dumb. I couldn't take another "stupid kids in the 90s" story, I couldn't care less about the rivalry between the two neighboring towns, but at least I expected something terrifying or fantastic or interesting or intelligent. Instead I watch half a movie as people dressed in a death costume stalk people, stab them out of nowhere, while said people believe it's a joke or someone they have some beef with fooling around. Because, get this, the town is called Murder Capital USA by the media, but NO ONE expects to be murdered and there is only one sheriff for the entire town. No, it was too stupid and the prospect of watching not only the other half of the movie, but two more that do the same thing, was too painful to contemplate.
Bottom line: perhaps other people might enjoy it. I found it boring and anachronistic, mixing 1990 dumbassery with modern LGBTQ ideas, because why not, but otherwise being nor scary nor funny.
I looked up the books and they are almost uniformly 4/5 stars, although they seem to have twists and a clear history of why the people in that area behave the way they do and so on. Perhaps reading the books it's a better idea.
