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A brand new picture affords a more in-depth have a look at Worry Road: Promenade Queen. The 2025 horror film is the fourth installment in Netflix’s Worry Road franchise, which is tailored from the R.L. Stine younger grownup collection of the identical identify. The upcoming Worry Road: Promenade Queen is ready within the unfortunate city of Shadyside in 1988. Within the film, which stars India Fowler, Ella Rubin, Suzanna Son, Ariana Greenblatt, David Iacono, Fina Strazza, Chris Klein, Lili Taylor, and Katherine Waterston, a killer begins to stalk the native highschool’s promenade queen candidates one after the other.

ScreenRant can now share a first-look picture from Worry Road: Promenade Queen forward of its Netflix debut on Could 23. The picture reveals a trio of scholars trying involved at promenade. Whereas they don’t look totally panicked, indicating that this scene could happen earlier than they study that there’s a new killer terrorizing Shadyside, their tense dialog could also be the results of them being concerned a couple of lacking good friend, whose physique will presumably be found sooner or later within the close to future. Try the full-size picture beneath:

What This Means For Worry Road: Promenade Queen

The Film Explores A New Period Of Shadyside

As emphasised by the fashions seen on this first-look picture from Promenade Queen, the franchise will carry the Worry Road timeline to the Nineteen Eighties for the primary time. The unique trilogy, which debuted one after one other over the course of three weeks in July 2021, all passed off throughout completely different occasions however omitted the Nineteen Eighties totally. Whereas the period was bookended by Half One: 1994 and Half Two: 1978, Half Three: 1666 explored the origins of Shadyside fairly than filling within the hole between the 20 years.

All three installments within the 2021 trilogy had been directed and co-written by Leigh Janiak.

Nonetheless, Promenade Queen’s evocation of the Nineteen Eighties goes a lot additional than the yr wherein it’s set. This picture additionally calls to thoughts the colour scheme and total design of the promenade within the 1980 Jamie Lee Curtis horror film Promenade Night time, which finally spawned a five-film franchise. By evoking the very Nineteen Eighties slasher franchise, it separates itself from Worry Road’s earlier slasher pastiche, 1978, which was set at a summer season camp and took on extra of the tropes of the Friday the thirteenth and Halloween franchises.

Our Take On The New Worry Road: Promenade Queen Picture

The Franchise Is Staying Constant In One Manner

Worry Road: Promenade Queen comes 4 years after the earlier installments and doesn’t characteristic the identical forged or the identical eras, so it should possible really feel very completely different from the intensely interlinked films that got here earlier than. Nonetheless, this first-look picture proves that it nonetheless has the mission assertion of the franchise at coronary heart. By specializing in a core group of youngsters in peril, the film will probably have the ability to evoke the tone of each the film trilogy and the unique books and thus nonetheless really feel of a chunk with the universe as a complete.

Worry Road: Promenade Queen

Launch Date

Could 22, 2025

Director

Matt Palmer

Writers

Matt Palmer, Donald McLeary

Producers

Jenno Topping, Peter Chernin, Kori Adelson

India Fowler

Lori Granger

Fina Strazza

Tiffany Falconer

Ella Rubin

Melissa McKendrick