Production Year: 1980 - Horror - Director: Paul Lynch - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Leslie Nielsen, Casey Stevens, Anne-Marie Martin, Antoinette Bower more
When an innocent game of 'Murder' results in the accidental death of a young girl, the remaining children involved vow never to tell anyone what happened. Seven years pass and the... more
Prom Night DVD
If you're not back by midnight... you won't be coming home! A little girl is accidently ... more
killed playing a game with other kids in an old deserted schoolhouse. The kids swear to silence but someone saw them do it. Six years later the same kids are ant...
Prom Night
When an innocent game of 'Murder' results in the accidental death of a young girl, the ... more
remaining children involved vow never to tell anyone what happened. Seven years pass and the children are now teenagers, preparing for their Senior Prom. Celebrations are cast aside, however, when each person receives a phone call from someone who witnessed the event all those years ago...
Prom Night
Three years ago, Donna (Brittany Snow, John Tucker Must Die) watched in horror as an ... more
obsessed predator (Johnathon Schaech, That Thing You Do!) murdered her family. Tonight is her senior prom and although she's anxious about the past, she's excited to celebrate her future with her friends. What Donna doesn't know is that the deranged psychopath has escaped from the asylum. He's returned to hunt her down, intent on killing anyone who gets in his way. As the night races towards its heart-pounding conclusion, the question becomes not who will be prom queen, but who will survive the killer's rampage.
Prom Night
If youre not back by midnight, you wont be coming home...April 1973 - a game of Murder ... more
between schoolfriends results in the tragic, accidental death of a young girl. Terrified of the consequences, the children make a pact never to tell anyone but their actions have been witnessed by someone hiding in the shadows.Seven years pass...Its the anniversary of the little girls death and the same group of schoolfriends are now preparing for their Senior Prom. The preparations are tainted, however, by a series of cryptic phone calls from the person who saw what they did all those years ago. Their Prom Night should be the time of their lives, but none of them bargained an axe-wielding, homicidal maniac coming to the party..This horror pastiche of the slasher genre stars Jamie Lee Curtis (John Carpenters HALLOWEEN, TRUE LIES) and Leslie Nielsen (AIRPLANE, NAKED GUN) and, as a horror movie, it has everything - decapitations, revenge, axe-murders and escaped lunatics, all to the beat of a pounding Disco soundtrack. PROM NIGHT was nominated for Best Actress (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Best Film Editing in Canadas 1980 Genie Awards.
Prom Night Movie Poster
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Prom Night Movie Poster
Original UK Quad; Rolled Poster; Poster Condition: New; Size: 40 x 30 inches approx. All ... more
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Production Year: 1980 - Horror - Director: Stanley Kubrick - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd
A review by beckster83 on Prom Night (DVD) October 18th, 2006
Author's product rating:
Did you enjoy it?
Indifferent to it
Story
Satisfactory
Characters / Performances
Good
Special Effects
Unmemorable
How does it compare to similar films?
Satisfactory
Advantages:
Good casting
Disadvantages:
Quality and effects (but it is nearly 30 years old ! )
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
Full review
I bought this movie quite cheap, so I wasn't really expecting to be the best movie in the world, but it had Jamie Lee Curtis and Leslie Neilson staring in it so I thought that maybe it had some creditability.
The movie looks to me like an early day slasher type movie (such as scream, I know what you did last summer, etc). The storyline revolves people that have seen something happen in their younger years and swear each other to silence. Their secret comes back to haunt them (of course), and on their prom night, no less.
For a movie of it's time (1980) the storyline is I guess, not bad. If you are looking for a gory type horror, making you want to cover your eyes then you may be disappointed with this, but it did make me jump a few times! The acting was good, not as cheesy as what I thought it would be when I first put the DVD into the machine. The special effects were nothing special, but again, as a film from this time it is to be expected.
All in all, I was quite surprised that at the end of the movie I did not think I had wasted my time watching it. It would be a film that I would watch again, but give it a couple of years or so!
Advantages: It's under 90-minutes Disadvantages: Tired old cliches of genre, no scares, tame
...Has it really come to this? We're now being offered up remakes of seventies horror films that aren't even remakes, they're just borrowing the name.
Next along on this rancid meat train is PromNight, a film that puts the Ho Hum in Horror.
The Prom is the pinnacle of the year for high school seniors, a chance for students to let their hair down, smuggle in some booze and generally act more annoying that usual.
Our heroine Donna is dressed up and ready to move on with her life. She's still suffering the mental scars of having her family murdered by her former teacher who took obsession to a whole new level. But as the prom get's underway, wouldn't you know it, the crazy killer has escaped from his mental institution and is ready to put his knife skills in operation.
What ensues for about 80-minutes is bland and boring mix...
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Advantages: Chosen to reboot of the original Prom Night instead of remaking Disadvantages: Average characters and predicatable ending
...***Why I watched the film***
As an avid horror fan, I try my best to go to the cinema to see any new horror films however as my partner is not a proper horror fan I tend to watch them on DVD as soon as they are released.
As my parents share my enthusiasm I have seen the original film so I was keen to see if the film had been totally rebooted or just simply remade.
***The cast***
Brittany Snow (John Tucker Must Die, Hairspray 2007)
Scott Porter (Friday Night Lights ? TV)
Jessica Stroup (The Hills Have Eyes 2)
Dana Davies (Coach Carter, Heroes ? TV)
Kellan Lutz (Twighlight, 90210 - TV)
***The plot***
Donna (Snow) has spent the last few years living with her aunt and uncle after her parents and younger brother were killed by the teacher that stalked her.
Cut to the day of her prom and she is finally ready to move on and have...
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Advantages: Funny violence Disadvantages: predictable, no real "horror"
...The other day, looking for something that wasn't going to be a thinker, I watched this expecting your average teen horror flick. I was pretty much on the money. There is another film of the same name from 1980 starring Jamie Lee Curtis, but the plot is totally different.
Plot
Donna Keppel is just coming to terms with the horrific murders of her family by a teacher of hers who became infatuated and obssessed. He claimed to have "killed them for her" so that they could be together. Donna goes to live with her aunt and uncle and, through counselling and her good friends and boyfriend, Bobby (they're always called Bobby, aren't they?), starts to gain her life back.
Unfortunately for her, just because he's in jail doesn't mean Mr Fenton is going to give up. He somehow escapes from maximum security jail just in time for her senior prom...
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When an innocent game of 'Murder' results in the accidental death of a young girl, the remaining children involved vow never to tell anyone what happened. Seven years pass and the children are now teenagers, preparing for their Senior Prom. Celebrations are cast aside, however, when each person receives a phone call from someone who witnessed the event all those years ago...
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