There will be little doubt that the new Prom Night slasher flick will be a hit at the box office. Teens love these kind of movies, and Prom Night has received the generous gift of a ton of promotion on TV from the studio, so it shouldn't miss.
Prom Night is the story of Donna, (Brittany Snow.) She is a senior at Bridgeport High School who becomes the object of a male teachers obsession that turns deadly. Donna witnesses her mothers murder at the hand of her stalker. He is prosecuted and sent to jail 2,300 miles from her home. Fast forward three years, he escapes and makes his way back to Bridgeport to resume his stalking at Donna's prom night. By the way, Donna's prom is so glutenous you almost are hoping for things to go horribly wrong.
For a guy who is supposedly "obsessed" with Donna, our killer sure spends a lot of time killing unrelated people he doesn't even know. There really is no reason in the story to "off" all these fringe friends of Donnas, but he does anyway. Then in another stroke of directorial genius, he starts killing hotel employees where the prom is being held. Why? Who knows? Prom Night also gives birth to a whole new genre of really bad acting, and reintroduces us to the old and tired formula of really stupid decisions our "heroes" make. Plus, the whole time our stalker is doing his deal a the prom he is being chased by the most inept police force on the planet. Oh boy!
But in Prom Nights defense. This "slasher" flick doesn't REALLY have a whole lot of slashing. Very minimal blood and no real gore of which I was surprised. It's also a tidy 85 minutes which is a saving grace. Plus the language is tame and no gratuitous sex to speak of, which in these kinds of movies is a real stunner. There is almost always the "kill them while they're not wearing many clothes scenes" but not here.
If you're 14 or 15 years old you may find Prom Night not only topical but scary. If this is your first movie like this, you may get a jolt or two. But if you're a veteran of slasher flicks this will be a snoozer indeed. For my money loud noises and false alarm things jumping out every 10 minutes stopped scaring me shortly after t-ball.
Gotta be honest here. If you're looking for scary and bloody, Prom Night is going to let you down-hands down. Making truly scary movies is not easy. Prom Night's recipe has been tried to death hundreds of times before and now we all all gagging on it.
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