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List Price: $24.99 | | Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Salesrank: 69330
Released: February 18, 1998 |
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| Used Price: $3.36 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
When it comes to an expressive set of lungs for horror, it's hard to match Jamie Lee Curtis, who set the standard for nonstop screaming in Halloween. She built her reputation as a scream queen in such subsequent outings as The Fog, Terror Train, and this similarly themed and relatively subpar horror outing. A progenitor of I Know What You Did Last Summer, this film focuses on four high school friends on prom night who are being stalked by a masked maniac seeking revenge for a death that occurred six years earlier. Guess who lives to tell the tale? --Marshall Fine
Prom Night Reviews:
Boring and dervitive slasher flick. 
2008-09-12 - Well what can I say about Prom Night, this slasher film was released during the early 80's and was regarded as a classic although it was probably called a classic just because it featured Jaimie Lee Curtis, Prom Night starts off promising with some great camera-work and what seems to be an attempt to build suspense but soon loses steam. The middle half was kind of dull and yawn inducing, I'm not sure what the director was thinking but he seems to be fond of disco music so if you have a high tolerance for this type of cheesy music then you might enjoy this. The acting wasn't particularly that good except from Jaimie Lee Curtis the other characters weren't really that interesting and it did not keep my interest and I usually love these type of slasher flicks like Halloween, Happy Birthday To Me, The Burning ect. but I just couldn't like this film at all no matter how many times I tried, it had tedious stalk and slash scenes which are completely devoid of suspense and was predictable. I already knew who the killer was so there wasn't any mystery but atleast it was better than Terror Train which isn't saying much and there was that unintentionally hilarious and outdated highschool dance scene, anyway if you like older slasher flicks which have an incredibly slow pace and tons of disco music without any nudity and gore then you might like this film but if not then I suggest you skip it and watch a better slasher flick like The Burning or The Prowler instead.
Wait....Wasn't Jamie Lee Curtis suppose to be in this??? 
2008-04-29 - This movie was so bad. Jamie Lee Curtis was the main actress, but where the hell was she in the movie. They should've saved themselves about twenty thousand dollars to make it seem more realistic because Curtis' character didn't have anything to even do with this movie.
Great 80's Slasher 
2008-03-25 - Prom Night is in my opinion a great film. Jamie Lee is the scream queen!! She plays Kim the main character, who's twin sister died when she was 8 years old, in a tragic accident, when some kids pushed her from a window. Now the kids, including Kim are high school age, and all getting ready for the prom, but there is a killer who wants to dance the final dance with all of them. The music is actually post disco, the rest of the actors are decent. Jamie Lee is great in this early 80's slasher classic!
1.25 STARS: A slasher dud from the early 1980s.
2008-02-12 - The early 1980s was a truly great time for horror movies, but movies like "Prom Night" show us that even the early 80s produced some duds too. Scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis attempted to follow up on the success of John Carpenter's 1978 classic "Halloween" in "Prom Night" and the result was not good. In this age of remakes of past horror movies, "Prom Night" is a movie that really needs to be remade because the concept behind the movie has potential. It's just a shame that the makers of this movie decided to go with such a lame script.
"Prom Night" is a movie about how a child dies in a terrible accident where some of her childhood playmates were somewhat responsible. The ten (10) year olds responsible for this girl's premature demise make an extraordinarily unlikely pact to keep things a secret, but are they really the only ones that knew about it? Well, life goes on for these kids as well as the brother and sister (played by Jamie Lee Curtis) of the dead little girl. At this point, the movie begins to unravel quickly as it suffers a great deal from needless dialogue and unnecessary scenes which were probably designed to throw the viewer off in his/her assessment of the film. Eventually, and I do mean eventually, people start dying on prom night at the hands of a killer dressed in black, slasher-style no less.
Bad acting is a continuous theme in my reviews of bad horror movies, but, in "Prom Night", the acting was not the problem. Granted, aside from Leslie Nielson and Jamie Lee Curtis, the acting was not anything to write home about, but the acting in "Prom Night" was pretty good for this type of flick, and the execution was fine. I guess it just goes to show you that you need more than good acting to make a good horror movie. With that being said, Jamie Lee Curtis' acting skills seemed to be wasted in this movie in that her character really was not that significant to the story, but I have seen enough of these types of movies to know that the makers of this movie had trouble with the making of this movie or maybe they just did not care enough about it in the first place.
At any rate, the main problem with "Prom Night" is not the acting, the execution or even the concept behind the movie. No, the main problem with "Prom Night" is with the script itself. Basically, "Prom Night" just does not have "it". The creators of this movie tried to be too cute with this whodunnit-styled slasher, and consequently, the movie really suffered from some drawn-out and completely unnecessary scenes from the beginning and middle of the movie where basically nothing happens except for some rather boring and pointless attempts at character development. We all know that character development is necessary within the confines of the story, but something needs to happen that keeps the movie going, and that did not happen in "Prom Night".
In fact, nothing really happens in "Prom Night" until the last twenty (20) minutes or so. It really is not much of an oversimplification to say that one could watch the first ten (10) minutes and then fast forward to the last twenty (20) minutes, and be done with "Prom Night". By the time someone is killed, I was completely frustrated with a lack of action, needless dialogue, and for all intents and purposes a lifeless and bland movie totally devoid of any sense of cinematic structure and completely lacking in style and substance.
Now, anyone that knows me knows that I love slasher films, but "Prom Night" is a pointless movie and a complete dud that for the most part fails to deliver the goods. The kills are nothing to write home about although I did like the decapitation scene in this movie. In fact, this one kill along with the 80s slasher-feel to the movie is about all this movie has to offer. I do not recommend "Prom Night" to anyone.
Brings back memories... Just of the prom though. 
2008-02-02 - Prom night is an average slasher with a revenge theme. There really isn't too much to talk about here. While watching this I forgot that I was watching a horror movie. That is not suppose to happen. This film isn't scary at all. Very little happens. The suspense is very low and I don't see how anyone could have trouble figuring out who the killer is. The only thing that saves this from a lower rating to me is one thing. This could actually happen. And films that are very close to reality will always effect me in some way. Also, I do like the disco soundtrack.
I feel this film is worth a watch simply for the realism and like one death scene. Recommended for die hard slasher buffs like me.
