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List Price: $14.94 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 24560
Released: August 19, 2008 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Genre: Horror
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 19-AUG-2008
Media Type: DVD
Description of Prom Night (Rated):
An attractive cast of young performers lead by Brittany Snow (Hairspray) is the main selling point for Prom Night, a remake of the 1980 Canadian slasher film starring Jamie Lee Curtis. Snow makes for a capable lead as the sole survivor of her family's massacre at the hands of an obsessed teacher (Jonathan Schaech), who returns three years later to finish his campaign on the eve of her senior prom. While no one's idea of a classic horror film, the Paul Lynch-directed Prom Night offered viewers a modest whodunit angle in between the killings; here, the villain's identity is known from the get-go, and what's left is a string of mechanical stalkings (which feature a surprisingly modest amount of blood) and reams of turgid teenspeak, which is handled as best as possible by Snow and her cast mates. The end result is a dull, suspense-free chiller that manages to make its mediocre source material seem inspired by comparison. Older moviegoers may note the presence of actors Idris Elba and James Ransone, both used so well on The Wire, and so thoroughly wasted here. --Paul Gaita
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Prom Night (Rated) Reviews:
You know the point in scary movies where... 
2009-11-14 - ...somebody does something really stupid and everyone hates them for it? well this was a 90 minutes movie of stupidness. Honestly, I found myself yelling at the screen saying "don't go back there". Truthfully this was a pointless movie, predictable in every way, and the characters were just too stupid to survive.
What's the Point...?
2009-11-04 - What was the point of this?
I know that movies are made to make money and the simplest movie to turn a buck is the teen slasher film. No thought, all formula. But this particular film is so empty and soul-less that I was overwhelmed with the numbness of indifference. The villain isn't that interesting. The kids solemnly spout lines that were used a bridges between the songs in GREASE ("The prom is the end of school--what if we never see each other again!"). The production values are good, which only highlights the utter lameness of the proceedings.
In the 70s and 80s, drive-in horror flicks provided fun through over-the-top violence, ridiculous storylines, and hot chicks in various stages of undress. Well, it looks like we've progressed in our politically-correct thinking that even the cheap drive-in horror movie doesn't indulge in the same old thrills anymore.
So what does that leave?
Not a whole lot. Just take a look at this PROM NIGHT.
Prom Night
2009-10-12 - Horror remakes suck for the most part and I can only think of a few that were better then the original. This film was released during the PG-13 horror craze, which i'm glad died off. It's stupid too make a PG-13 horror considering most kids will just sneak into an R rated one anyways but I digress.
The film starts off with a beautiful MTV type blonde who comes home to find her parents and brother murdered by some psycho. They catch him and lock him away from life but he escapes...on her prom night! The prom nights were typical teen movie party scenes that I just fast fowarded through. The killer is one of the worst killers in cinema history, almost laughable. He wears a suit, a baseball cap, and one expression. The kills are not shown on camera as a marketing ploy to make people go out and buy the "Unrated, too scary for theaters" dvd edition. I will not buy the unrated version based on the movie. The whole movie sucked and i'm glad I didnt go out and purchase this movie. AVOID THIS PIECE OF CRAP!!!
Please Give us a "Zero" Star Rating
2009-09-01 - Of all the movies I've watched in the past year, I can honestly say "Prom Night" is the ONLY movie I sat through that doesn't even deserve a single star rating. Keep in mind that I've seen "C.H.O.M.P.S.", "Frogs", "Manos, The Hands of Fate" and "Plan 9 From Outer Space" all within the past 3 months...and enjoyed each of them much more than "Prom Night"....it is simply AWFUL!
Where do you start with this thing?
1. It's a slasher movie. I love slasher movies, it's my favorite horror genre. I grew up in the early 80's when a new slasher flick came out every weekend, and I saw them all. What is the attraction of the slasher flick? Watching the kills of course. You want to see Jason slaughter camp counselors in imaginitive or gory ways, it's the DNA of a good slasher flick. "Prom Night" is supposed to be a slasher flick, except it has almost no slashing! The slashing that is present has no gore! If someone stabs a worthless teen with a knife there should be blood! Why try to make a PG-13 slasher movie? Go ahead and make all the blue tinted PG-13 Asian ghost stories you want. Folks are lining up to watch PG-13 vampires turn all sparkly in the sunlight while molesting high school girls, that's all fine and dandy, but don't water down the slasher genre.
2. Are all Prom's multi-million dollar affairs these days? Since when do paparazzi show up at high school proms and line the red carpet? Where are the ugly people in this school? Even the killer looks like he just walked off the set of a Target commercial. The rest of the cast is made up of the usual rainbow coalition characters found in every teen flick pumped out these days. Everyone is so bland and boring, you simply can't wait to see them killed. Unfortunately even when they do die, it's so blah you can't even root for the killer.
Please, as a fellow horror fan, I implore you, don't waste your time here. Feel free to go back and watch the remake of "Black Christmas" or "The Fog" instead. I thought both of those remakes represented the nadir of horror remakes but I learned my lesson after watching "Prom Night"....the pit of suck isn't deep enough for Hollywood and they can always sink further.
I really liked it 
2009-08-31 - No one will be nominating this movie for an oscar, but it actually is quite entertaining. Part of the entertainment value of this movie is just how absurd certain things are (hmm, fire alarm, people running out of building, I think I'll go upstairs and get my shawl...). I've watched it about 5 times now, and I think its a solid film for what it is. My expectations were low, also I watched it on netflix instant (so I didn't waste money on it), but it delivered and I think it deserves credit for that. Watch it alone when you're in the mood for suspense/psycho stalker movie or watch it with friends to poke fun at the many many holes in the story - either way, it's fun!
