Prom Night |  | Director: Paul Lynch
Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Stevens, Anne-Marie Martin, Antoinette Bower
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Category: DVD
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Rating:  125 reviews
Sales Rank: 74920
Format: Color, DVD, HiFi Sound, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 0
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 89 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 6304697996
UPC: 013131032796
EAN: 9786304697993
ASIN: 6304697996
Theatrical Release Date: July 18, 1980
Release Date: February 18, 1998
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When it comes to an expressive set of lungs for horror, it's hard to match Jamie Lee Curtis, who set the standard for nonstop screaming in Halloween. She built her reputation as a scream queen in such subsequent outings as The Fog, Terror Train, and this similarly themed and relatively subpar horror outing. A progenitor of I Know What You Did Last Summer, this film focuses on four high school friends on prom night who are being stalked by a masked maniac seeking revenge for a death that occurred six years earlier. Guess who lives to tell the tale? --Marshall Fine
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 80's Horror Nostalgia September 8, 2009
J. Brown (Odenton, MD)
This is literally the first slasher movie I remember watching when I was a kid. Since I was a horror movie virgin, I had no idea who the killer was until the very end. Nowadays, more sophisticated audiences will be able to guess the ending in the first 10 minutes. But aside from that, Prom Night is still one of the better slasher flicks from the late 70's/early 80's era and holds up surprisingly well almost 30 years later. The director manages to create quite a suspenseful mood throughout the film, especially during the chase scenes. The movie is helped by a very creepy score (not to be confused with the disco music). Leslie Neilson is wasted (what was his purpose?), but Jamie Lee Curtis earns her title of Scream Queen.
 prom night DVD review August 28, 2009
Eric Foster (euclid, oh USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
i think the PROM NIGHT DVD was great i havent seen it in any stores in my area. and i found it on amazon.com great job guys. eric foster
 I loved this movie as a teen. Now, I can't remember why... August 28, 2009
Robert P. Beveridge (Cleveland, OH)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Prom Night (Paul Lynch, 1980)
Prom Night came out when I was twelve years old, and back then, I adored this movie. I hadn't seen it in many years, and with the recent remake, I figured I should go back and rewatch the original before seeing what horrors the modern Hollywood machine had wrought upon it. So I did, and I was once again confronted with the fact that when I was a kid, I had very little taste in movies.
The movie opens with four kids playing a game of killer (a hide and seek variant) in an abandoned building (I think it's a schoolhouse, but it's kind of generic). Three other kids, siblings, come to the building and are unwittingly roped into the game, resulting in the death of one. Six years later, a mental patient has escaped from a nearby facility and seems to be targeting everyone who was in the building that day. There are the surviving siblings, Kim (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Alex (Michael Tough) Hammond, whose father (Leslie Nelsen) is the local high school principal. Then there are the four kids who were involved in the accidental death: Nick (Casey Stevens), Kim's longtime boyfriend, who has hid his involvement in the death from Kim for years; Wendy (Anne-Marie Martin), the instigator of the bunch, who's grown up into the typical bad girl; shy, bookish Kelly (Mary Beth Rubens); and Jude (Joy Thompson), the mediator of the group.
The biggest problem (aside from lackluster acting and a horrible, unintentionally funny script) is that the red herring in this movie is so painfully obvious that anyone who's seen a single slasher film should be able to see right through it; it's a cheap attempt to capitalize on a slasher film that had been popular in the recent past, and the opening scene telegraphs that it's a red herring. If you fall for it, you will kick yourself at the end. Over and over again. Even better, Leslie Nielsen gets top billing here over Jamie Lee Curtis, but he has very little screen time here. Not that either Nielsen or Curtis, both very capable actors, could have saved the movie from William Gray's script. Though I do have to give it that it was the first time I ever heard the phrase "It's not who you go with, it's who takes you home," which I spent my entire middle and high school career puzzling out. (Everyone left all the dances I went to with the same people they came with; no one ever went stag. I finally figured that part of it out when I saw Pretty in Pink six years later.) For nostalgia purposes and for those who want to do comparison with the remake, it's worth watching, but in all honesty, and I say this rarely, I can't imagine the remake not being better than the original. * ½
Love it! August 27, 2009
Jennifer J. Hoey
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love this movie, and I am so glad to have the dvd! Fans of the horror genre will enjoy this early 80's movie
 The 80's August 4, 2009
K. Leonard (Birmingham, AL USA)
Typical 80's movie, grew up in the 80's so I have a special fondness for the horror films of that time. And anyway who could miss another Jamie Lee Curtis horror film, she was the queen of 70's-80's horror. Cheesy killings with more teenagers (sign of the times) but I nice remainder of the good old days of simple killing.
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