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Prom Night
If you're not back by midnight, you won't be coming home.
Reviewed by jareprime

The Hammond children; Kim, Alex and little Robin are on their way home from school. Along the way Robin overhears some kids playing in an abandoned building. Curious, she goes to see what they are doing. Inside we find Jude, Kelly, Nick and Wendy playing a hide and seek type game. They chase little Robin over to a window and she falls out to her death. The four inside make a pact to never tell what happened. Outside over top of Robin's body we see a shadow pass over her. Flash forward six years to the day before prom at Alexander Hamilton Senior High School and all hell is about to break loose.

Nice intro? Good cause that’s all I have to say about this heap of trash. This movie borrows off of Halloween, Carrie and Saturday Night Fever so bad it is not even funny. We have every stereotype of teenagers in this one and all the great horror cliches imaginable.

Creepy janitor, check. Multiple who could have done it, check. Disco showdown at the prom, check. Jamie Lee normally keeps my attention but dear lord does she ever suck in this one, her dance made me cry, unlike the one in True Lies that made me hard… oops, typo I meant to say well… hard, why hide it?

We've got the hot nasty chick and her Vinnie Barbarino stud trying to ruin the prom and we have a killer taking out the brats that killed little Robin. By the way the police blame Robin's death as a sexual assault, I don't even know how they get that one unless they figured a load blew her out of the window or something. But the man convicted of the death, a Leornard Murch has escaped, on the same day of the prom, nice coincidence. This movie just tries so hard to make you try and figure out who could be doing the murders like a mystery, but hell if you can even stay awake through it you'll be happy.

There is also this great shower scene in the girls locker room that has no T or A. But the worst thing in the whole movie is "Slick" AKA Seymore Crane who is supposed to be a stud, but looks like someone spliced an extra greasy Ron Jeremy with an early 70's Elvis, nasty people. But he does die in one of the most ridiculous vehicle crashes ever. This movie has only one good thing in it a half decent decapitation and that’s it. If you wanna watch a really bad after school special check this one out, if you wanna go watch paint dry, well it's about the same.

2/10


Prom Night
If you're not back by midnight, you won't be coming home.
Reviewed by Splatterscribe
Kudos Prime, on what may your most accurate review. I don't get the reverence this film has enjoyed over the years. Just because Jamie Lee was in it doesn't make it a good movie. In fact, it sucks.

Poorly shot, featuring tepid acting and even worse kills, "Prom Night" is the most overrated slasher movie I've ever seen. I've been disappointed with films before, but this movie was also boring, and that's unforgivable.

Not only did hate the completely uninvolving characters, I spent most of the movie waiting for soemthing to happen. When events finally did start roilling into slasher territory, it was so timid that I spent the rest of the running time rolling my eyes and glancing at the clock. Over the years I've gone back and tried to watch this a few more times, just to see if I was simply in a bad mood that day. No dice. I still dislike this movie.

Because the actual prom sequence ends on the one genuine high note this piece of crap has to offer, I'll grant "Prom Night"

One out of ten Sleep Inducing Slasher Flicks

(1980) Paul Lynch, William Gray, Robert Guza Jr.

Leslie Nielsen .... Mr. Hammond
Jamie Lee Curtis .... Kim Hammond
Casey Stevens .... Nick McBride
Anne-Marie Martin .... Wendy Richards
Antoinette Bower .... Mrs. 'Vi' Hammond
Michael Tough .... Alex Hammond
Robert A. Silverman .... Mr. Sykes
Pita Oliver .... Vicki
David Mucci .... Lou Farmer
Jeff Wincott .... Drew
Mary Beth Rubens .... Kelly
George Touliatos .... Lt. McBride
Melanie Morse MacQuarrie .... Henri-Anne
David Gardner .... Dr. Fairchild
Joy Thompson .... Jude Cunningham



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