WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Fear Street Part 2: 1978, now streaming on Netflix.
In Fear Street Part 2: 1978, we get full insight into the havoc wreaked at Camp Nightwing, acting as a precursor to the gory murders in Part 1: 1994. This chapter reveals the truth about the axe-wielding slasher and how he became another pawn, possessed by the witch, Sarah Fier, to continue her blood vendetta against Shadyside.
With that in mind, as a camp counselor gets chosen to carry out these savage kills -- besides the slew of minor teen campers he guts -- let's break down the main, named victims of this massacre.
ARNIE
Arnie is Alice's stoner boyfriend and the person she's found often neglecting duties with to get high and have sex. However, things change drastically when they, along with Cindy and Tommy, find Nurse Lane's journal that direct them to the witch's home. Lane was trying to break the curse as it claimed her daughter, Ruby, in '65 and made her a killer too.
This leads to the quartet visiting the house and ending up in Sarah's underground lair. Sadly, Sarah's spirit takes ahold of Tommy there and he grabs the first weapon available on the wall -- the axe. He then crushes it into Arnie's skull repeatedly, sending the girls running for their lives.
JEREMY
Jeremy's a nice, polite kid who's in charge of keeping prisoners as the camp plays Capture the Flag. Sadly, the Sunnyvale kids don't respect him so they bully him and make a break for it. It sucks as Jeremy just wants to be accepted like any other Shadysider.
It unfortunately ends in tragedy for him, because right after his prisoners escape, Tommy arrives, and while we don't explicitly see it, he takes an axe to the boy. It's heartbreaking as the seniors did love Jeremy for the heart and kindness he had.
JOAN
Joan's a Shadyside counselor who does a good job looking after the kids, trying to inspire both sides to be nice to each other. However, while the hippie's a sweetheart, she lusts after the arrogant Kurt from Sunnyvale.
It leads to sex, but when Kurt heads out for a smoke afterwards, Tommy arrives at the bunk and smashes the axe across Joan's chest and her jaw. He splits her open and she bleeds out, poking fun at the horror trope that those who fornicate end up dead.
GARY
After Tommy killed Arnie, he couldn't get to Cindy and Alice as they escaped in Sarah's underground tunnels. That's why he started killing at the camp, taking out youngsters like Sean, Jesse, Rod and Stacy off screen. But as the girls eventually find their way to the outhouse and try to come up, they're left relying on Ziggy (Cindy's sister) and a counselor, the dim-witted Gary.
Gary's there in shock over finding Ziggy accosting a bully, Sheila, and he's now left trying to pull Alice up via rope. But in the midst of all this, the awkward, likeable Gary is stunned to see Tommy walking in with a crazed look. Tommy quickly swings his axe and decapitates Gary clean with one shot, and as Alice falls back down, she pulls the headless corpse with her.
ALICE
Alice is absolutely stunned from how Tommy's killed their friends, but she and Cindy eventually make it back up to the surface from the witch's underground tunnels. By the time they reunite, Cindy's already chopped off Tommy's head with a shovel, so they're now free to make plans to use the witch's hand, which Alice discovered underground. Once they take Lane's map and reunite the skeleton appendage with the witch's body, Sarah's hold will be broken.
But just as they're about to set off to end the curse -- after an inspirational speech about how this gives her tragic life meaning after losing so many family members -- Alice turns around only to instantly be killed by an axe shot to the chest. Tommy's reconstituted himself and ends her in a split-second.
CINDY
Cindy and Ziggy run away and find the Hanging Tree. They rush to dig up Sarah's body to place the hand -- however, the witch has summoned other minions from her lair, with Billy Barker (the kid killer from the '20s), Harry Rooker (the Milkman Murderer from the '50s), Tommy and Ruby Lane all coming to finish the hunt.
Sadly, Cindy and Ziggy find the tree to be a dud as there's no body present -- just a warning that Sarah's immortal. Cindy pleads with Ziggy to flee as the little sister bled on the hand and thus will be followed forever, but as they try to make a break for it, the slashers catch up. Cindy takes several axe blows to the chest from Tommy, which is poetic in a macabre way as they were in love before he became possessed.
ZIGGY
In the fracas, Harry grabs Ziggy, and in the most graphic manner, he stabs her multiple times. She's found looking at her sister, as they promise never to leave each other in their dying breaths. It's a brutal finale because Ziggy could have fled but she tried to get back to Cindy, who was aiming to buy her time with a shovel as a weapon.
Ziggy hated on her sister a lot in the film so it really hurt her seeing Cindy die first. The big twist, though, is that while it seems like Ziggy dies too, Nick Goode stumbles out of the camp, finds her and performs CPR. He helps revive her, but by that time the slashers are gone as her temporary death ended the hunt.
Directed and co-written by Leigh Janiak, the Fear Street trilogy stars Sadie Sink, Kiana Madeira, Olivia Welch, Benjamin Flores Jr., Darrell Britt-Gibson, Ashley Zukerman, Fred Hechinger, Julia Rehwald, Jeremy Ford and Gillian Jacobs. Part 1: 1994 and Part 2: 1978 are now streaming on Netflix, followed by Part 3: 1666 on July 16.