Prom Night (2008) 8/19

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Originally Posted by levcore

I don't hate this movie but a straight remake of Prom Night would've been a million times better.

It almost seems disrespectful that this movie has nothing in common with the original. I might have forgiven it if Jamie Lee Curtis had a cameo.

Originally Posted by GeoffOliver

This movie is a piece of shit, and not just because the original is one of my favorite slasher films. The writing is paper-thin, the acting sucks, there is no suspense, the story is predictable, the film isn’t nearly as violent or bloody as it needs to be, and it’s just an overall stupid mess from beginning-to-end. It’s not really a remake either. Other than the title and basic setting, there is nothing in common with the 1980 film. It does sort of function as another sequel since the series had basically become anthology anyway, with only II-III being directly related.

With that said, this can be a guilty pleasure in the right mood, and I’ve been waiting on picking it up, but I refuse to pay more than $4. I almost pulled the trigger when MovieStop was going out-of-business and selling it for $6 used (with like a dozen copies on the shelf), but even that didn’t seem worth it.

Prom Night, according to IMDb trivia, is the first slasher film to be PG-13, and unlike others like Happy Death Day or The Final Girls, it didn't remotely work.