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Donna's senior prom is supposed to be the best night of her life. After surviving a horrible tragedy, she has finally moved on and is enjoying her last year of high school. Surrounded by her best frie...( read more 
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MCT:October 15, 2008Ugh, the new Prom Night movie is very horror-lite. I immediately noticed how the opening was a ripoff of "I Know What You Did Last Summer" with the night flyover of a car driving on an ocean road and an old 60's song redone by a current grunge band.
There was no gore! Very little blood was shown spilling and the victim's bodies were mostly blood-free, despite being stabbed by a heavy hunting knife.
Horror came instead in the form of silly jump scares of girls running into their friends and seeing things in the mirror behind them.
The story was reminiscent of Halloween II, with an escaped killer hunting down one girl and killing others who get in his way.
It was great how the movie skipped the preliminaries and got to the Prom event within 22 minutes. But there was no school setting. Yup, they chose to set the entire prom at a hotel instead. All the hallways and room made it look like The Shining. I guess kids these days must have a lot more money to be holding their prom at a luxury hotel ballroom with deluxe suites. The prom itself was a bust, with no good music or dancing.
Sucky too was how the killer's identlty was known; no freaky masks, superhuman stunts or shadowy shots to make him mysterious or scary in any way. How did he escape from jail on prom night? And how did he even know it was prom night - do inmates have a calendar of local school proms?
After the backstory and buildup between the killer and the lead girl Donna, there was no interesting dialogue when they finally met.
The classmates/victims were lacking interesting personalities, so no emotional investment lost when they died. The prom bitchy girl didn't get her just desserts, so no payoff there.
Yawn. There were no nods to the original Prom Night movie for classic horror fans. I doubt the makers even saw the original.
Spoiler: There was a gap in logic how the police took care to evacuate the prom but allowed the prime target girl Donna to wander upstairs alone. The prom ended too soon, before even crowning the King and Queen, and the last third of the movie became a predictable, repetitive police thriller.
I highly recommend that horror fans skip this lame teen date movie. -
MCT:October 12, 2008Just another stupid remake that has nothing to do with the original and that could only scare a four year old.
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MCT:October 2, 2008NOT INTERESTED
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MCT:August 28, 2008
OK!!! lets see how many times we can pull PERSON IS BEHIND YOU IN THE MIRROR! trick ... what was that like 5 times at lest!!...o and the closet as well!!
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MCT:August 22, 2008
Wow, this was pretty good for a remake...! Of course I'm old enough to have seen the original and loved it, but I was really suprised how good this one was. Liked the Cast and the execution...someone did their homework, hehehe. Good way of introducing a classic to the new generations...
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MCT:December 3, 2008
When a film is touted a "remake," I don't generally think that the movie will have the exact same plot as the original. However, most of the time the film follows some sort of premise from the parent film (see the remake of Psycho: pretty unnecessary because it's exactly the same as the first one), and though not a replica by any means, it is reminiscent of its predecessor. In the case of the remake of Prom Night, the only things that link the remake to the original are the facts that both have teens getting killed on their prom night and there are DANCE SCENES!!
2008's Prom Night was directed by Nelson McCormick, who has been involved with mostly TV series and is the director of another remake, the upcoming film The Stepfather, based on the 1987 film of the same name. Brittany Snow stars as Donna Keppel, a teenage girl living with her aunt and uncle after her parents were killed by a crazed psychopath, high school teacher Richard Fenton (Johnathon Schaech) obsessed with Snow's character. It is prom night for her school, which seems to be ginormous considering how many students are at prom and the magnificent hotel that the school has booked for the night. With that aside (my jealousy rages now that the movie made my prom look like a birthday party at the bowling alley), Donna, her date Bobby (Scott Porter), and her friends all head to the festivities with fun, dancing, and "love" in mind. Later on, Donna is plagued with visions of Fenton's return, and it seems she must be skilled in some sort of divination, because the killer is in fact still Fenton and he is at the hotel where the prom is being held. I think you know what happens from here.
One of the overall problems that Prom Night suffers from is the fact that it does nothing to distinguish itself from the monotony of all of the other tame remakes that have been thrown out these days. The film can be replaced by any number of other slasher films that have done this same sort of thing: Red Eye, When a Stranger Calls - you name it - Prom Night is more of the same redundancy that has been plaguing theaters as of late.
The cast is quite bland and there really is no feeling for any of the characters. Brittany Snow does what she can with her cookie-cutter role, a girl who has been traumatized by her family's death but seems normal enough, but there's just not enough substance to any character to care about their deaths - or the painful seperation that the living characters must go through. It was obvious from the beginning that Donna would be the "final girl," as the plot spent so much time hinting at Donna's past.
Speaking of Donna and her relationship with the killer, the film made it so low-key that it was actually confusing as to what happened when Fenton killed her parents. The audience is given little hints that can be easily missed if one is, say, reading a book to pass the time because of the movie's predictability. Since the original film had a fairly straightforward plotline, it would make sense for Prom Night to build off of that one somewhat, but instead, it decides to create its own story that feels as though it is just a jumping-off point to slaughter teens.
I have no problem with horror movies being a bit tamer in order to cater to a wider audience, and in fact I think it's a great thing that movies are accepting the fact that they do not need a lot of onscreen violence to scare the viewer. But Prom Night is a slasher, a form of horror which requires tension and at least some violence to succeed. With this remake, director McCormick has decided to leave out almost all blood, and even in the "unrated" version that I viewed, there was a severe lack of blood that scenes called for. When a person gets stabbed several times, they are going to bleed, but the film tends to leave out this detail to the point where the death seems humorous. Of course, the comedy is enhanced due to the fact that Schaech's performance as Felton is over-the-top and too campy.
Along with the lack of violence, McCormick tends to layer on the fact that he is making a movie that, at the top of the film's goals, is to cater to the teenage girl with the use of trendy pop music spliced throughout the majority of the film. The argument that the movie is set at a prom helps to explain the use of music, but throughout the first third of the film, there is almost a constant loop of background pop music that detracts from the action at hand. (Did anyone catch a clip of a This Will Destroy You song during a beginning scene in the bathroom?) It's not really a fault of the film per se, but the fact that McCormick so bluntly shows what his target audience is almost turns away the other parts of the demographic.
At the close of the film, most will have lost interest in any little entertainment value they saw in the film in the beginning. Prom Night's allegiance lies in teenagers who scare easily or who just want to fool around at the movie theater, and the impact of the movie is slim to none. There is no mystery of who the killer is or what his motive of killing was: most slashers have a surprise twist, a shock or explanation, that ties the film together, giving the viewer a purpose as to why they watched the movie. Throughout Prom Night, we are already exposed to these answers, and so we could have already imagined the ending, and it probably would have been better than the actual one. All Prom Night does is take already established slasher films, jumble them up into something more predictable and a little bit uncohesive, and then fail miserably at what is essentially a simple setup. And for Prom Night to pull in $22.7 million worth of ticket sales, and end up #1 in its opening weekend at the box office, tells me either that this new batch of teens are really digging how simple and cliched these new remakes are, or that people like me went to see it hoping for something better than their biases told them and instead realized what a grave mistake they had made.
Come on, filmmakers. You can do better than this.
Comments
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yemmymanzanaresposted 96 days ago -
It was an alright film, but it didn't leave much to the imagination. It was pretty predictable which i don't really like films to be. However, i'd say its worth a watch. It was jumpy in parts, but it wasn't scary.
posted 170 days ago -
@lovecyn4ever: It actually makes perfect sense. More audience if its PG-13 instead of R.
posted 191 days ago -
that movie was the best movie eva! if u havent seen it already you have to! you never know when someone will be killed or the killer will pop out. i think that movie should get an award. my fav.!
posted 205 days ago -
I Really Enjoyed It Myself, It Was Great And It Actually Kinda Scared Me A Bit
posted 223 days ago -
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Let me start by saying it doesn't make to much sense to come up with a PG-13 remake of an R-Rated slasher film besides the story was different from the original not in a good way.This film fails to be scary & not suspenseful enough with a killer that wasn't so convincing playing this role.This is one of the worst horror films to hit theaters & to make it worst is predictable from the beginning.Hardly any blood or interesting death scenes.
posted 227 days ago -
hahahah this was a pretty funny movie but it's scary when something just jumps out of no where....
posted 228 days ago -
by the way, one of the Quizzes says the killer only killed 6 people, when in fact he killed 11. I will count for them:
1) dad
2) brother
3) mom
4) maid
5) claire
6) michael
7) guy who worked in the hotel
8) lisa
9) bobby
10) a cop outside the house
11) the assistant FBI agent.
your welcome. :]posted 228 days ago -
