Prom Night

Name: Prom Night
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Released: July 18, 1980
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 45
Cast: Anne-Marie Martin, Antoinette Bower, Casey Stevens, David Mucci, Jamie Lee Curtis

1980

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Astral Films | Release Date: July 18, 1980 | R

Starring: Anne-Marie Martin, Antoinette Bower, Casey Stevens, David Mucci, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jeff Wincott, Leslie Nielsen, Michael Tough, Pita Oliver, Robert A. Silverman

Summary: At a high school senior prom, a masked killer stalks four teenagers who were responsible for the accidental death of a classmate six years previously.

Director: Paul Lynch

Genre(s): Thriller, Horror

Rating: R

Runtime: 92 min

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Jay Scott

A slow-moving but otherwise efficient Canadian B-movie that gives the audience what it came for: blood and guts (the title, coincidentally, of Lynch's previous film). It is similar but inferior to Carrie, Halloween and When a Stranger Calls; it is similar but superior to Friday the 13th. [17 Sep 1980]

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Director Paul Lynch seems to capture the spirit of the genre here, but spends a little too much time setting up each murder, thus eliminating some suspense.

Time Out London Staff (Not Credited)

Corny, but not enough for Lynch, who also throws in the escape of a homicidal maniac wrongly imprisoned for the child's murder, and a confusion of red herring conflicts which mark the plot as a poor imitation of John Carpenter's patient terrorism of good by evil. But if you forget motivation, the visual trick-or-treat of slow revenge is entertaining enough: a weirdo janitor dribbling at the window; the victim's year book photos pinned with shards of shattered mirror. Jamie Lee Curtis is superb as Miss Naturally Popular and Prom Queen-to-be, isolated in empty high school corridors. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine

Fresh from being terrorized in Halloween, Jamie Lee Curtis stars in this slasher clone set to the wonderful thump of disco music. Prom Night is better than most slasher movies, mainly because it's funnier. Read full review

Vincent Canby

Prom Night is a comparatively genteel hybrid, part shock melodrama, like Halloween, and part mystery, though it's less a whodunit than a who's-doing-it. Read full review

Joseph McLellan

Friday the Thirteenth meets Saturday Night Fever. Good and promising actors -- people who deserve a better film the next time -- are too numerous to name. [16 Aug 1980, p.D2]

Gene Siskel

A dreary, Carrie-type shocker about a high school student seeking to kill a bunch of classmates on their prom night. Very few thrills. [01 Aug 1980, p.10]

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Computey18

Oct 16, 2022

Yes I know its slow Moving, But It has become one of my personal favorite Slashers. Great movie

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JLau

Sep 25, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Group of kids kill a girl during a game in an abandoned building and years later, her brother starts killing them all off, mostly at the prom.… Expand

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villain_edits

Mar 1, 2022

Esperava mais pelo que falavam desse filme, mas é legalzinho e o plottwist final por incrível que pareça me pegou. As mortes são esquecíveis, os personagens são mais ou menos, alguns são tão ridículos que são bons, mas o visual do assassino é bem meh e é isso.

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Orukayu

Jan 25, 2023

Horror movie from 1980. The story is familiar. An innocent girl dies years later, revenge is taken. There are similarities to Carrie in the movie. Carrie was inspired quite a bit since it was translated in 1976. Even the second movie is almost the same. There are nude scenes in the movie.Horror movie from 1980. The story is familiar. An innocent girl dies years later, revenge is taken. There are similarities to Carrie in the movie. Carrie was inspired quite a bit since it was translated in 1976. Even the second movie is almost the same. There are nude scenes in the movie. The interesting thing is that Leslie Nielsen is playing a serious role and is still old.… Expand

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JeBjBo

Apr 21, 2022

I finally watched this and... it's really boring. I love classic slashers and I do like slow-burn films but "Prom Night" doesn't have a mystery because you guess the killer right from the beginning; it doesn't have good kills at all and the characters (except JLC) are unlikeable. And I can'tI finally watched this and... it's really boring. I love classic slashers and I do like slow-burn films but "Prom Night" doesn't have a mystery because you guess the killer right from the beginning; it doesn't have good kills at all and the characters (except JLC) are unlikeable. And I can't take Leslie Nielsen seriously.… Expand

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Panchogul

Oct 24, 2021

De los peores slashers de la época, ni Jamie Lee Curtis salva esta película aburrida, lenta y sin gracia.

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