| Prom Night (Widescreen) | 
 enlarge | Director: Paul Lynch
Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Leslie Nielsen, David Bolt, Dean Bosacki, Antoinette Bower
Studio: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 2338
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc, Widescreen
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 89
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: PLTD52339D
UPC: 096009523398
EAN: 0096009523398
ASIN: B000TSIJWY
Theatrical Release Date: 1980
Release Date: September 4, 2007
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Studio: Platinum Disc Llc Release Date: 10/02/2007 Run time: 89 minutes Rating: R
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 Prom Night - was never this boring! December 2, 2008
Doubt if was even scary when originally released during this [ugh!] Disco period. Best parts: Jamie Lee Curtis's young and too-brief 38D's brazier shot in the locker room and the ending credits; cutting her teeth on two-bit films like this, Jamie eventually evolved into both a sexy and superior actress (i.e, 1994 True Lies). Worst parts: documentary-style scary scenes, over use of twilight filtering and the lazy editing with redundant 4-second shots of meaningless high-school bulletin boards, vacant walls, etc., before eventually the actors walk or run into these shots. And the sound-track competes as worst element.
 really a 2 and 1/2 star November 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A pretty standard "who's killing the teens?" movie. Nothing great about it, but it is not a bad movie. Would have given it 2 1/2 stars if available.
 Underrated Slasher September 12, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Fifth movie in the boxset. I actually like this movie. A childhood favorite. Granted that it still has it's flaws. My friend says the reason this movie gets blasted all the time is because he thinks this was made mainly to exploit Jamie Lee Curtis' career, since she had been in movies like Halloween and The Fog.
The movie starts off in 1974. A group of kids are playing hide-and-go-seek in an old school building when all of a sudden, one of the kids falls to their death. The other kids vow to keep quite about it, but one of the kids knows. Flash foward 6 years later, the kids are now in High School. On the night of their senior prom. What they don't know is that a masked killer is stalking them. The main problem with this film (which is the REAL reason why so many people hate it) is because of how long it takes to get to the killings, which don't happen until the last minute (Bad move there, I'm afraid), and the kills aren't even close to perfect, but enough about that.
Overall, there were some parts that creeped me out, some parts that bored me, and some parts that made me laugh, especially the scene where one of the girls mooned the nerdy janitor. Another one is of course, the cheezy disco music. So if you're a horror fan who has a lot of paticience and likes cheezy slashers, this is for you.
And on the topic of the remake, just forget about that. It was so awful, it's hard to believe it ended up #1 at the box office. The power of horror, I suppose.
 "Now It's Time To Fade To Black" August 2, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Their identity hidden by a ski mask, someone is slashing the student body on Hamilton High's prom night. What dark secret links the victims? What terrible pain has the mysterious stranger suffered in the past that compels him to kill and kill again? Terrifying elements of "Halloween" and "Carrie" have been blended together to create a great gem from the slasher frenzy era.
Jamie Lee Curtis does a terrific job playing Kim Hammond, disco queen and sister of ten-year-old Robin who was found dead at an abandoned school six years ago. In fact, of all the slasher movies she starred in, this is one of my favorites. Why? The decapitation that evacuates the gym is awesome. Also, the fact that the killer's identity isn't revealed until the end gave it a mysterious feel that reminded me of an Italian giallo. I also love the "Fade to Black" song sung by Gordene Simpson during the closing credits; it accurately describes the pent up rage that led the killer to his emotional unhinging. In fact, the movie has a great musical score, which was provided by Paul Zaza.
Though "Prom Night" is enjoyable, the DVD from Echo Bridge doesn't receive many accolades. The video is grainy, the audio is weak, and there is the absence of extras, not even a trailer. It was cheaper for me to buy it at Best Buy than trying to purchase an out of print version from Anchor Bay, which was probably a better product all around. At least Anchor Bay's DVD had a trailer.
Let me also say that this "Prom Night" is so much better than the predictable "Prom Night" remake of 2008. The remake was void of any plot twists and turns and the viewer knows who the killer is from the very beginning.
 "The killer's gonna getcha!" August 1, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Canada was one of the key players at the forefront of the slasher movie wave of the early 1980s. "Prom Night" was released during the crest of this phenomenon and the filmmakers were among the "A" list of Canadian horror, considering that the excellent music score skills contributed by Paul Zaza would turn up in the following year's "My Bloody Valentine" (another one of the best) and that "Prom Night's" writing/directing team of William Gray and Paul Lynch would go on to make 1981's "Humongous" (which has never seen a DVD release).
Still, "Prom Night," though filmed in Toronto, is set in the U.S. and features some familiar faces like Leslie Nielsen and Jamie Lee Curtis, the latter of whom was still riding high on the success of "Halloween" (and would also star in another 1980 Canadian slasher production "Terror Train").
"Prom Night" is just one fun movie. It has a good, attractive cast, a sense of humor, and an overriding teenage innocence to it that is very appealing.
The characters are largely adolescent caricature archetypes. You have the likable and popular prom queen Kim (Curtis), the hormonally driven, van driving, pot smoking burnout Slick (Sheldon Rybowski), the violent, aggressive miscreant Lou (David Mucci), and my favorite, the spiteful and malicious (I'm avoiding using the "B" word here) but oh so hot Wendy (Anne-Marie Martin, billed here as Eddie Benton), who zooms around in a fast sports car and has a cat fight-like rivalry with Kim over the attention of prom king and common love interest Nick (Casey Stevens).
That said, one of the common gripes against the film from seasoned cinema gore hounds is that it doesn't feature enough nudity or red stuff spurting out of bodies. I would respond by saying that while compared to some others it is somewhat light in the sex and gore quotient (though a good decapitation and dismembered corpse, not to mention a hot girl mooning someone are notable exceptions), it more than makes up for it in being an otherwise so appealing and classy effort, and one of the best and most fun slashers ever. Highly recommended.
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