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Netflix Gets Scary Good Results With Fear Street’s Weekly Releases

The installments in the three-part film series, premiering on Fridays, are among the service's most-popular films

A still from an installment of Fear Street
The unusual release for Fear Street was baked into the films from the beginning. Netflix
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By Kelsey Sutton

 

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Netflix’s teen slasher trilogy Fear Street is terrifying—and the unusual way the horror films have been released on the streamer is helping them get scary good numbers.

Since the first film in the three-part movie event was released on July 2, the installments have been fixtures on Netflix’s Top 10 lists, which it releases daily on its platform. Fear Street Part One: 1994 hovered in the top three most-popular titles on the service for a week following its release, at which point Fear Street Part Two: 1978 climbed to the top of the charts.

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Kelsey Sutton

Kelsey Sutton is the streaming editor at Adweek, where she covers the business of streaming television.

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