Prom Night

1980 "If you're not back by midnight... you won't be coming home!"
5.3| 1h33m| R| en| More Info
Released: 18 July 1980 Released
Producted By: Guardian Trust Company
Country: Canada
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At a high school senior prom, a masked killer stalks four teenagers who were responsible for the accidental death of a classmate six years prior.

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Wordiezett So much average
Acensbart Excellent but underrated film
Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.
Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
Stevieboy666 Canadian slasher movie starring Leslie Nielsen & arguably the most famous scream queen/final girl of all time Jamie Leigh Curtis. Simple plot about teens getting killed in revenge for the death of a child several years before. Apart from the opening sequence there's very little horror until the final half hour, ie the Prom Night, where the unknown killer makes an appearance. The microphone also makes several appearances throughout! Some slasher fans may get bored, and the endless disco scenes won't help. Apart from a decapitation there's not much gore either. However this is one of the best known titles from the Golden Age of the slasher movie & is essential viewing for those of us who just love these films.
moonspinner55 Leslie Nielsen and Jamie Lee Curtis head up cast of long-in-the-tooth "teenage" nobodies in slasher flick about four high school seniors preparing for prom night, still haunted by a prank six years earlier in an abandoned building that resulted in the death of a curious younger girl. The teens have vowed never to breathe a word about the accident, but a witness at the crime scene is now stalking the kids (as if their guilt isn't enough, they have to pay for their collective silence with bloodshed). "Halloween"/"Carrie" combination features excellent cinematography for the genre by Robert New, but nothing of interest plot-wise. The police business on the side is colorless, a segue to principal Nielsen's office is a dead-end, there's a rich bitch who tries intimidating Curtis (who doesn't look rattled). We also get a few outlandish deaths that fail to top the opening sequence, the only well-directed moment in the picture. Followed by a handful of in-name-only sequels and a loose remake in 2008. *1/2 from ****
skybrick736 One of the first dominoes to fall in a long line of slasher movies was the hit slasher, Prom Night. The film takes a typical approach when it comes to a slasher's timeline, starts off with a murder, exit frame, que "x" number of years to present time and build the tension to the final scenes. The premise of Prom Night and many of the slasher is taken right from Halloween's playbook. However, the lack of creative in the script is made up in other areas of the film. Jamie Lee Curtis performance is a stellar reminder when she is the top Scream Queen, it was a complete transformation from past characters while maintaining a likable, believable character. The surrounding cast were all unique characters too and didn't bring down the movie with poor performances. It's a slow burn up to the ending but it is eventually worth it, with a pretty good payoff that some may not expect coming.
Davis P This is probably the worst horror film I've ever seen. I love Jamie Lee Curtis but this was a mistake in her career.... it's not that she's bad in the film but she's not the star, and everything else in the movie is bad. The acting is extremely over the top cheesy and cliché, the story is pretty weak... they had a chance to make a longer more substantive horror movie, but they resorted to boring cliché material that leaves you feeling like this was a huge missed opportunity. The story centers around 4 kids who were involved in the accidental death of a little girl (Jamie's sister in the film), and now six years later a killer who knows their secret is coming after them... sound kinda familiar? (I know what you did last summer). Watch that one instead of this one if that kind of plot summary sounds interesting to you because it's far better than this disaster. The killing scenes aren't suspenseful or scary, hell none of the scenes in this movie are scary.... just boring and more boring. This is a flop! I recommend you keep looking if you run across this one. 1/10.