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As such, and given the source material, Netflix’s decision to follow up “Fear Street: 1666,” the concluding chapter of its “Fear Street” slasher series, with a party is sensible.

Is there anything as dependable as the slasher formula?

“The act of stabbing someone is really hard to sell and make it look good,” Fahy says with cheeky sincerity, noting the slasher instruction she received from director Christopher Landon of “Happy Death Day.”

In fact, there are many on the right, including Trump's designated government slasher, Elon Musk, who were relishing an opportunity to use a shutdown to further hamstring the federal bureaucracy.

“The Monkey” wears the skin of one of these gruesome slashers, with kills trying to raise a viewer’s pulse with a little bit of innovation.