I think you're being a bit harsh, even if I didn't connect directly with the Fear Street trilogy at first, except for some familiar imagery in the typical character intro and maybe some name that sounded familiar.

I understand your reasons, because it may not bring anything to the assassin genre, except for a character design with a raincoat and mask.

Taking refuge in the 80s aesthetic and the songs may connect with me, but it doesn't help either and I don't think it's for everyone.

Where it does pass my test and partly saves the film is in its form of gore and those deaths that border on parody.

I'm a lover of old school B-movie fare, and I think this high school prom death flick wants to pay homage in part to that type of filmmaking with its spurts of blood and mutilated bodies.

In short, it's the typical catalog film that's there to get attention as a novelty and is totally watchable in the background, but may be necessary to keep the genre of gore and mutilation alive within the platform.