Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Isbel A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

callanvass Mary Lou is a promiscuous teenager who gleefully indulges in boys, sex, and booze. On Prom Night in 1957, she goes too far by leaving her boyfriend, Billy Nordham hanging to have sex with another guy. Billy decides to get revenge and kills her. 30 years later, Bill Nordham is now the principle of Hamilton High. Mary Lou is awakened by a trunk in the basement and possesses Vicki Carpenter. Bill must face his traumatic past before it's too late. I'm gonna get this out of the way right now! I loved this movie. It's not a great film by any means, but it's great fun! It goes all out to ensure the viewer has a good time, and I'd say it exceeded expectations in a pretty big way. This movie is NOTHING like the first one. It's full on fantasy, resembling a Nightmare on Elm Street movie more than anything else. Wait until you see Vicki being attacked in the bedroom! (That creepy unicorn, brr) I really enjoyed the different approach from the first one, and it was way more fun as a result. This movie wants you to have a good time, everything else is secondary. There isn't much gore, but we do get some light lesbianism in the shower! Even a weird incest scene! A newly pregnant student gets killed as well (Ouch! God, I miss the 80's!) I was really impressed by the creativity and the guts the director, Bruce Pittman had. The acting is surprisingly above average for the most part. Wendy Lyon is excellent as our heroine. She's sympathetic, vulnerable, even a little creepy when she goes completely in Mary Lou mode. Lisa Schrage is a blast as Mary Lou. I had no sympathy for her being killed, because she's so unsympathetic. But I think they intended it to be that way. Michael Ironside phones it in here. I hate to say it, but he looked visibly unsure on what to do here. This is clearly a paycheck role! There were only brief flourishes of what makes him so great. Louis Ferreira is OK as Vicki's love interest. He didn't embarrass himself and held his own. The ending is similar to Nightmare on Elm Street 2 in some ways. I dug it and even clapped a little bit. I dig the false happy ending if it's done correctlyWhere is the love for this movie? It's unabashedly corny, and I loved every minute of it. It represents everything I adored about the 80's! Where you at, Mary Lou? I'll go on a blind date with you any day!7/10

sjrobb99-997-836393 As is noted in every review of this film, outside of taking place at Hamilton High, the only thing "Prom Night II" has in common with the Jamie Lee Curtis "Prom Night" is the number of plot holes into which the unwary viewer might fall.Mary Lou Maloney (Lisa Schrage) is an avaricious little tramp who wants BADLY to be prom queen in 1957. Unfortunately she steps on a few heads while reaching for the crown, and one of those heads belongs to her rich but clueless boyfriend Billy (Michael Ironside), who catches her making out with bad-kid Budd (Richard Monette) at the prom. As she struts to the stage in triumph, Billy climbs into the rafters like a tuxedoed King Kong, lights a stink bomb, and throws it down onto the stage to ruin the moment. Unfortunately, the fuse catches Mary Lou's pre-OSHA dress on fire and she burns gruesomely to death in front a room full of screaming teenagers who apparently missed "Stop, Drop, and Roll" because they never think about throwing a coat over her or anything like that and just stand there watching her burn. Flash forward 30 years. It is now 1987, with all the fashion tragedy that implies. Billy is now Principal Nordham of Hamilton High, and Budd is Father Cooper, the priest of the local Catholic church (?). Billy's son Craig (Justin Louis) is dating pretty little Vicki Carpenter (Wendy Lyon), who is up for prom queen. Unfortunately, Vicki's aggressively Catholic mother won't permit her to buy a new dress, so Vicki rummages in the Hamilton High drama prop room for something suitable and comes up with the crown, sash, and cape worn by the doomed Mary Lou. She puts it on and BAM -- Mary Lou is back and out for blood. Father Cooper figures out quickly that the ensuing weirdness is tied to Mary Lou's restless spirit and tells Principal Nordham that her soul is bound to wander in purgatory because she died violently while trying to accomplish a mission (presumably becoming prom queen, since she caught fire before she was crowned). Principal Nordham refuses to believe it. It is of course the truth and in the end, Mary Lou reemerges in all her slutty, living-dead glory to wreak havoc at the prom.Unfortunately, in between the explanation and the dénouemont, the movie is a pastiche of bizarre, occasionally frustratingly unrelated vignettes of Mary Lou possessing Vicki and wreaking havoc. The first casualty is Vicki's "quirky" friend Jess (Beth Gondek), who is dispatched after a weepy emotional scene in the bathroom where she confesses to Vicki that she has just found out she is pregnant (the pregnancy never comes up again). Why does Jess try to pry a jewel out of the prom queen tiara that Vicki has found in the prop room? Why is Jess dragged toward the menacingly open paper cutter, giving everyone the impression that heads will roll, only to end up hanging from the light fixture by the ties of the prom queen cape? Only Mary Lou knows.Preening through the narrative is Kelly (Terri Hawkes), the nastiest mean girl who ever used a crimping iron, menacing all and sundry in her quest to be voted prom queen ahead of the blandly blonde Vicki. She even performs oral sex on the Val-Kilmer-esque nerd, Josh (Brock Simpson) in an effort to have him rig the computer voting; unfortunately, Mary Lou gets to him before he can complete the task. Mary Lou also finishes off Vicki's best friend Monica (Beverly Hendry), who sports the most obvious boob job in the history of 80's teen cinema frontal nudity during a shower scene gone horribly wrong. In the end, of course, everyone dies and no questions are answered. I am pretty sure they were setting up for a sequel but this movie borrows so much from so many other movies that it's entirely possible that the writers simply lost their train of thought. What, for example, was up with that carousel horse in Vicki's bedroom? I mean, yeah, the tongue was a nicely creepy touch, but this is a girl whose mother won't shake loose the cash for a new dress for the prom and yet her bedroom is a full-on Laura Ashley fantasy complete with a carousel horse? And nobody ever explains why Mary Lou was such a bitch in the first place, or what Father Cooper was reading from when he explained why she had come back. The Bible? The Necronomicon? And after positing Kelly as the nastiest little thing to strut across a disco floor, her death is disappointingly routine. I mean, this movie puts serious effort into getting you to dislike this broad, and then...nothing. By the time Mary Lou bursts out of Vicki's chest and rampages gorily through the high school in search of Billy, the story has lost its thread entirely. The end -- wherein Billy gives Mary Lou's spirit her moment in the spotlight at their prom, and in return she possesses him instead of Vicki (who is reborn a la "Poltergeist", although by then you'll have completely lost count of the number of horror films being simultaneously ripped off) made no damn sense at all, although it seems to have wanted to, very badly.

TheBlueHairedLawyer While this film still provides great entertainment and a creepy plot, it's not very original. I was hoping it would be like Prom Night from 1980 but it was just like Carrie mixed with Demon Witch Child, had bad acting, unmemorable soundtrack and the scenes jumped around a lot. It was the basic "shy nobody girl goes crazy and destroys the school" plot, only this time it wasn't on her own will. It was worth watching but I've seen better movies, if you want a really good classic slasher film try My Bloody Valentine (1981) or Sleepaway Camp (1983). Hello Mary Lou is good but it doesn't deliver, there's no nicer way to put it. It does have that rocking horse scene, though, that was pretty creepy.

AaronCapenBanner Loose sequel to "Prom Night" only uses the same high school, Hamilton High, where another horror takes place as the vengeful spirit of Mary Lou Maloney, who was accidentally killed at her senior prom thirty years previous, is unleashed from a trunk(?!) by Vicki Carpenter(Wendy Lyon) who is dating the son of principal Bill Nordham,(played by Michael Ironside) who, just by one of those standard movie coincidences, happens to be Mary Lou's old boyfriend that she blames for her fiery death. So evil Mary Lou possesses poor Vicki to destroy Bill, and be crowned senior prom queen, no matter who has to die...Typically violent and idiotic horror exploitation is just another illogical and crass film where the supernatural protagonist has all kinds of superpowers because the script says they do, with no regard to plausibility or coherence, with the ending being the final insult.