This was July 12th. The summer of 1978. A week later, my sister was dead.—Christine Berman, to Deena Johnson and Josh Johnson, in Fear Street Part 2: 1978
Christine Berman, also known as Ziggy Berman and C.Berman is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Berman, the younger sister of Cindy Berman and the sole survivor of the Camp Nightwing Massacre in the summer of 1978. She is a resident of Shadyside and former love interest of Nicholas "Nick" Goode.
She is voiced by Gillian Jacobs in Fear Street Part 1: 1994 and portrayed by her in person in the following two sequels, Fear Street Part 2: 1978 and Fear Street Part 3: 1666 and by Sadie Sink as a teenager in the second film.
History[]
Christine was born around the early 1960s to Mr and Mrs. Berman and as the younger sister of Cindy Berman, during her youth, Ziggy was left without a father after he had left her mother, an incident which caused Mrs. Berman to start drinking. Around the 12th of July 1978, Ziggy, alongside her sister, began attending Camp Nightwing, a camp which welcomed both Shadyside and Sunnyvale campers.
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Trivia[]
- Due to surviving a massacre, Ziggy became what is known in the horror franchise as a "final girl" a virgin girl who survives the killer and lives to tell the tale. Despite dying, Ziggy was resurrected and continued to live, though haunted by what she had experienced. Deena would later follow the trend and became the next "final girl" in 1994 though she did not die.
- The message spray painted on the cabin wall that read "Ziggy sucks cocks in hell" is a reference to the 1971 novel and 1973 film The Exorcist in which the possessed Reagan McNeil tells Father Karras the same thing though saying his deceased mother does so.
- Bugs being dumped onto Sheila's head is a reference to the infamous scene from Carrie in which pigs blood is dumped onto the titular character, the same novel is written by Stephen King, the author which is liked by Nick.
- The scene in which Ziggy claims that her red paint would suffice as she does not have a pig is also from Carrie.
- Ziggy is a fan of the late musician, David Bowie with Ziggy coming from the persona "Ziggy Stardust" from The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars album with Major Tom coming from the song Space Oddity.
Quotes[]
For quotes by Christine Berman, see here: Christine Berman/Quotes.