Prom Night (Widescreen)

• Terror Train
• Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II
• Silent Night, Deadly Night
• The Nightmare on Elm Street Collection
• Basket Case (20th Anniversary Special Edition)
• Halloween
• The Burning
• Prom Night 3 The Last Kiss / Prom Night 4 Deliver Us from Evil
• Halloween H20 - Twenty Years Later (Dimension Collector's Series)
• Poltergeist (25th Anniversary Edition)

Would have given it 2 1/2 stars if available. A pretty standard "who's killing the teens." movie. Nothing great about it, but it is not a bad movie.

It was so awful, it's hard to believe it ended up #1 at the box office. My friend says the reason this movie gets blasted all the time is because he thinks this was made mainly to exploit Jamie Lee Curtis' career, since she had been in movies like Halloween and The Fog. Overall, there were some parts that creeped me out, some parts that bored me, and some parts that made me laugh, especially the scene where one of the girls mooned the nerdy janitor. Granted that it still has it's flaws. The other kids vow to keep quite about it, but one of the kids knows. On the night of their senior prom.

So if you're a horror fan who has a lot of paticience and likes cheezy slashers, this is for you. The power of horror, I suppose. Flash foward 6 years later, the kids are now in High School. A group of kids are playing hide-and-go-seek in an old school building when all of a sudden, one of the kids falls to their death. The movie starts off in 1974.

And on the topic of the remake, just forget about that. A childhood favorite. The main problem with this film (which is the REAL reason why so many people hate it) is because of how long it takes to get to the killings, which don't happen until the last minute (Bad move there, I'm afraid), and the kills aren't even close to perfect, but enough about that. Another one is of course, the cheezy disco music. I actually like this movie.

Fifth movie in the boxset. What they don't know is that a masked killer is stalking them.

It has a good, attractive cast, a sense of humor, and an overriding teenage innocence to it that is very appealing. You have the likable and popular prom queen Kim (Curtis), the hormonally driven, van driving, pot smoking burnout Slick (Sheldon Rybowski), the violent, aggressive miscreant Lou (David Mucci), and my favorite, the spiteful and malicious (I'm avoiding using the "B" word here) but oh so hot Wendy (Anne-Marie Martin, billed here as Eddie Benton), who zooms around in a fast sports car and has a cat fight-like rivalry with Kim over the attention of prom king and common love interest Nick (Casey Stevens). and features some familiar faces like Leslie Nielsen and Jamie Lee Curtis, the latter of whom was still riding high on the success of "Halloween" (and would also star in another 1980 Canadian slasher production "Terror Train"). "Prom Night" is just one fun movie. Still, "Prom Night," though filmed in Toronto, is set in the U.S. Highly recommended. I would respond by saying that while compared to some others it is somewhat light in the sex and gore quotient (though a good decapitation and dismembered corpse, not to mention a hot girl mooning someone are notable exceptions), it more than makes up for it in being an otherwise so appealing and classy effort, and one of the best and most fun slashers ever.

That said, one of the common gripes against the film from seasoned cinema gore hounds is that it doesn't feature enough nudity or red stuff spurting out of bodies. "Prom Night" was released during the crest of this phenomenon and the filmmakers were among the "A" list of Canadian horror, considering that the excellent music score skills contributed by Paul Zaza would turn up in the following year's "My Bloody Valentine" (another one of the best) and that "Prom Night's" writing/directing team of William Gray and Paul Lynch would go on to make 1981's "Humongous" (which has never seen a DVD release). Canada was one of the key players at the forefront of the slasher movie wave of the early 1980s. The characters are largely adolescent caricature archetypes.

I never saw it until tonight - don't know how that happened. Not great, not overly scary, but a real hoot. I love the horror/slasher movies from the late 70's mid-80's. This killed me. An escaped luntic, the police chase, disco-disco (good music BTW) and a prom with two conniving students all add up to a lot of fun. I'm a late bloomer on this one. Halloween meets Carrie meets Saturday Night Fever.