Fear Street Part Three: 1666—My take on the movie with spoilers!

 

PLOT SUMMARY: The truth about Sarah Fier's curse is revealed. The Shadysiders have a chance to end the curse once and for all. 

Did you ever wish you were born in a different era when things were supposedly simpler? The good ol' days, so to speak.

While we concern ourselves with the simplicity of life back then we fail to notice that people's tolerance level was too low. Being different meant being an abomination. Speaking your mind meant the words were of the devil.

Imagine never being allowed the freedom to think and do as you please. Then, the good ol' days don't seem that good anymore.

Fear Street ends the trilogy with a movie that takes place in 1666, you know, the era where when anything went wrong, all the blame went to a woman someone or the other was jealous of. And of course, there's the triple six in the end...

FEAR STREET PART THREE: 1666 Movie Plot

When we last saw Deena, she was still trying to save her girlfriend Sam who was possessed. She found Sara Fier's hand and reunited it with the body. She immediately finds herself living Sara Fier's life.

In 1666 people settled in an area that is somewhere between present-day Shadyside and Sunnyvale.

Sara helps her father with farm duties along with her brother Henry.

When she walks out of her house one morning, she meets her friends on the way who are all being "wink-wink" about enjoying the "fruits". But what the youngsters are referring to is wine and a bonfire party late at night.

Sara meets with Hannah who is present-day Sam, and it is clear they have feelings for each other much to the chagrin of Hannah's mother who is the pastor's wife.

There is a widow who lives somewhere in a desolate area who is known to possess illegal substances.

Sara, along with her friends, goes to the widow's house and finds a book on witchcraft. Meanwhile, her friends have found berries that they take to the bonfire and share with others.

Sara and Hannah keep staring at each other until the village eve teaser makes a move on Hannah. Sara intervenes and publicly humiliates him.

Sara and Hannah go to a secluded area to make out and hear a sound. Afraid they must have been found out, they rush home.

The next morning, Sara wakes up late. Henry calls her outside to show her that their pig who had just delivered piglets, has now eaten all of them. Sara decides to put her down immediately. Hannah calls Sara because she's worried her father is acting abnormally. She believes it has something to do with the sin they've committed. Sara tries to allay her fears but Hanna's mother comes in and throws Sara out. The village mad person: Mad Thomas, reveals to Sara that he knows she is different and plans to tell everyone about her.

Sara returns home and finds all the food has gone bad and maggot-ridden.

Her father returns and tells her Mad Thomas has spread rumours about her.

Another alarm is sounded. Turns out the pastor has taken some kids and closed down the church. Solomon Goode, the man who is Sara's well-wisher, breaks open the doors and then tells everyone to step back.

He enters the church and is shocked to find eyeballs on the floor.

He looks up to see the Pastor still mumbling nonsense even though he has gouged his eyes out. A quick look around, and Solomon notices he's done the same to the kids.

The others enter and are devastated to find their siblings and kids, all dead with eyes gouged out.

The Pastor is killed immediately.

At the town's meeting, everyone blames the blight and the Pastor's transformation into a murderer, on witchcraft, staying true to the trend of that era. Let's blame every problem on witches!

And of course, Sara Fier is the obvious target because she was always outspoken.

Sadly, even Hannah's mother doesn't speak against their decision to name her daughter a witch.

A witch hunt is initiated and as Sara and Hannah are running away, Hannah trips and tells Sara to run.

Hannah is caught while Sara goes to see her father but finds him unconscious. She later finds Hannah and decides that if everyone thinks they are witches perhaps they should indulge in a little bit of witchcraft anyway. It wouldn't matter if they did it now because the whole town thinks they already practice it and will kill them anyway. Hannah doesn't seem a hundred per cent on it but Sara can't get the widow's book out of her mind. She goes there to steal it but finds the book has gone and the widow murdered.

She runs and finds refuge in Solomon's house and tells him she thinks someone in the town has made a deal with the devil.

It's a twist we don't see coming but before it is officially revealed, it becomes obvious what all this is leading to. It's always the person you trust the most, isn't it?

More people come searching and Solomon tells her to hide in the backroom. That is exactly where the tunnels are and Sara enters them, trying to hide from the angry mob.

She finds the book, the pulsing thing we saw in Part 2, and the circle of blood.

She now understands who the actual witch is.

Solomon enters and tells her how he always desired power but that fortune wouldn't come to him. He didn't find anything wrong with trying to get it all through any means possible. He's made a deal to let the pastor be possessed and let him kill people so that the devil can have their souls and blood. He intends to let one person be possessed every year so he could have fortune. He offers to let Sara get into the deal but she declines and runs.

She is caught and in the struggle, her hand is cut off. She manages to run again and escapes out of the church only to have Solomon come behind her and grab her, announcing to the townsfolk that he's caught the witch.

At the execution, Sara takes the blame on herself and goes as far as to say that she clouded Hannah's mind as well. Hannah is spared and Solomon is the one who puts the chains and noise around Sara. She vows that his lies will be found out and he will pay for his misdeeds.

She is hanged and her friends give her a popular burial somewhere else.

Part 2 of 1994 has Deena return to her normal self. She now knows the truth. Josh is by the side of the road when Sheriff Goode comes over. For some reason, he realizes that the teens must have caught on to what he's up to. Witch powers? Or the fact that they were near Sara's body? Did Goode even know Sara was actually buried there? He begins giving chase and Deena tells her brother that Goode is evil.

They make it back to Ziggy's house and reveal that her boyfriend from camp was evil. Ziggy remembers how Nick played her and also that he did say that he didn't want to take on the burden of his family's duties. He wasn't talking about a career in law, rather he was hinting at taking over the family's business of offering souls to the devil.

Ziggy gets pissed and agrees to a plan to murder Nick so that they could save Shadyside. Turns out that's the reason Shadyside is full of crime too as Nick had been letting evil possess people from Shadyside so that his hometown, Sunnyvale could prosper and be crime-free.

They take help from Martin, the guy from the first part whom Josh had helped. He gets on the plan too when he realizes Nick was the one who framed him for putting graffiti all over town. It was Nick who had spread the rumour about Sara being a witch that was responsible for everything going wrong in Shadyside.

FEAR STREET PART THREE: 1666 Ending Explained with Spoilers! 

They all head to the mall which is always open to whoever wants to come and set traps or look for century-old skeleton hands or simply hang out. The malls were always open in the 90s.

Traps are laid out, Deena cuts her hand and fills a bucketful of blood so that the others can fill up their water guns with them.

Someone enters the mall and the four get ready to strike only to see it's the police. They are about to take the four in for trespassing when the monsters come and kill them.

The four are able to trap the monsters and wait for Nick to arrive. When he comes into the mall, Ziggy is waiting for him and he gets lost in memories before Ziggy shows him indirectly, that her Carrie plan is superior. She dumps Deena's blood on him and the monsters get attracted to him. Just how much did Deena bleed from that one cut in the hand?

He manages to escape through the tunnels. Meanwhile, Sam escapes too and chases Deena. She attacks Deena in the tunnels who reminds her of their love. Sam is distracted and Deena knocks her out. She then has Nick go after her and they come up to that pulsating mass. In the struggle, Deena manages to place Nick's hand on it and he is haunted by the terrible visions of all the people who died because of what his ancestor Solomon initiated.

Deena stabs him in the eye and he dies. The curse ends and the mass vanishes, the circle breaks, the monsters disappear, and everything gets back to normal.

The curse ends because supposedly Nick was the one from the Goode family who indulged in witchcraft.

Things go back to normal with Martin selling technology outside school, Josh finally finding out the girl he has been chatting with and Shadyside becoming somewhat crime-free after Nick is exposed as the killer. His brother, the mayor, quickly denies having any knowledge about it.

Deena and Sam have a date near Sara's grave that is surrounded by the red moss from the hairband Hannah had left for Sara.

The movie ends but in the end credits scene we see someone take the book from the tunnels.

Why didn't Deena take the book and burn it?

Clearly, Nick passed on knowledge about it to his family members just like they eat he was initiated. Who else could it be?

The movie is an excellent ending to the trilogy, wrapping up all loose ends and though the movie could hardly be called a slasher, it had some genuinely creepy moments.

Scare scale: 4/5 

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