{"id":119897,"date":"2021-07-02T08:57:56","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T07:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=119897"},"modified":"2023-03-11T18:32:40","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T18:32:40","slug":"fear-street-part-1-skull-mask-serial-killer-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/tv\/fear-street-part-1-skull-mask-serial-killer-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear Street Part 1: Skull Mask Serial Killer Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re heading back to the Nineties in Netflix’s slasher-fest Fear Street Part 1: 1994<\/strong><\/em> and with any good slasher movie from the Nineties, you have to have an iconic serial killer.<\/p>\n

In this case, it’s ‘The Skull Mask Killer’ aka Ryan Torres – a seemingly normal teenager from the town of Shadyside who suddenly goes an a murder rampage one night while working late at the local mall. Find out more with SciFiNow’s killer profile…<\/p>\n

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Based on R.L. Stine\u2019s best-selling horror series,\u00a0Fear Street<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0follows Shadyside\u2019s sinister history through a nightmare 300 years in the making.<\/p>\n

The first chapter in the trilogy is set in 1994, and follows group of teenagers who discover the terrifying events that have haunted their town for generations may all be connected \u2014 and they may be the next targets.<\/p>\n

There are plenty of iconic serial killers to look out for in all three movies of Fear Street<\/strong> <\/em>but co-writer and director Leigh Janiak considers Skull Mask her favorite: “I think it’s just because I have an affinity to the Nineties!” she tells us when we ask her why.<\/p>\n

In fact, Janiak and her crew created each serial killer based on the decade in which their murder sprees take place and seeing as she attributes Wes Craven and written by Kevin Williamson’s 1996 slasher classic Scream<\/strong><\/em> as an influence, Skull Mask had to have the “knife and the Halloween costume”.<\/p>\n

The Ghost-Face-inspired killer isn’t just a firm favourite with its creator, the cast of Fear Street Part 1: 1994<\/strong><\/em> think he’s a pretty effective murderer too…<\/p>\n

“Skull Mask is pretty scary because of the knife,” Benjamin Flores Jr.tells us who plays Josh. “The more and more I think about him just wearing a cloak and you can’t see his feet [it looks like] he’s just like moving really fast. He just pops up on you and he has to get really close for those kills!”<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah his knife is so small that he’d have to stab you a bunch!” agrees Olivia Scott Welcs, who plays Sam. “And that’s scary\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first skull mask murder scene you’re kind of like \u2018oh\u2026 this is a lot!\u2019” adds Kiana Madeira who plays Deena. “Lots of damage was done for that death to happen\u2026!”<\/p>\n

Indeed, like Scream, Fear Street Part 1: 1994<\/strong><\/em> starts with a horrific murder that sets the mood for the rest of the movie: “[The Nineties] was this great era of what I think was a resurgence of the slasher genre with movies like Scream<\/strong><\/em> which had characters that were a little more self-aware, a little more sarcastic, it was kind of challenging the conventions of the genre,” she tells us.<\/p>\n

There are plenty more iconic killers to look out for in Fear Street Part 1: 1994,<\/em> Part 2: 1978<\/strong> and Part 3: 1666<\/strong> <\/em>and they’re all unique in their own way.<\/p>\n

“It was so fun creating the killers,” Janiak tells us. “I created a page backstory for each of the killers. I wanted to be able to have that for the actors that were playing them and then also hint at this world that could exist…”<\/p>\n

Fear Street 1994: Part 1, the first of the Fear Street Trilogy, is available on Netflix from Friday. Fear Street Part 2: 1978 and Fear Street Part 3: 1666 follow on 9 and 16 July.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Find out all you need to know about the latest serial killer terrorising Shadyside with SciFiNow’s killer profile…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":119919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[7,207],"tags":[7174],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Skull-Mask-Main.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127299,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119897\/revisions\/127299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}