Prom Night (2008)

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• Bethany M

  
  Quite scary and not that bad of a film!

• Cassie H

  
  This movie may seem to be interesting when you hear about it, but when you watch it, it is so predictable. Since Donna's insane teacher is trying to get to her. So you know that all Donna's friends and even her boyfriend are going to die. This movie is cliche and also… More
  This movie may seem to be interesting when you hear about it, but when you watch it, it is so predictable. Since Donna's insane teacher is trying to get to her. So you know that all Donna's friends and even her boyfriend are going to die. This movie is cliche and also very predicable. If you want to see an unoriginal remake, rent this movie. But now having rewatched it I guess it's alright but not the best movie.

• Dean !

  
  Firstly no way is this a remake of the original 1980 slasher. They are both called Prom Night and that is it, the stories are totally different! The other problem is this is classed as a horror but only a PG-13?! Pretty straight forward slasher stuff, not scary or gory but done on a… More
  Firstly no way is this a remake of the original 1980 slasher. They are both called Prom Night and that is it, the stories are totally different! The other problem is this is classed as a horror but only a PG-13?! Pretty straight forward slasher stuff, not scary or gory but done on a big budget. Watch the 80's one it was only just slightly better!

• Matt G

  
  This is one of those movies where it's so bad you can't help but love it. Grade: F

• Richard C

  
  not scary at all, just boring. D

• Dean M

  
  Average of the 1980's horror remake as well as it didn't fright me much enough - YAWN! - looked so pathetic. Horror remake of 1980's <i>Prom Night</i>.

• Dead A

  
  This was okay. I expected this to be more than okay.

• KJ P

  
  I have a million things I could say about this movie, but I will keep it short! Massively Average!

• Film C

  
  Well Well Well, another horror that wasnt worth the time and energy. The storyline i guess was ok but as always predictable, the scares well there werent any, the same with no suspense or gore or horror, to be honest this film makes you wonder why its been put into the genre of… More
  Well Well Well, another horror that wasnt worth the time and energy. The storyline i guess was ok but as always predictable, the scares well there werent any, the same with no suspense or gore or horror, to be honest this film makes you wonder why its been put into the genre of horror as the isnt anything to scare you, the character that is doing the killing just looks like hes got a chip on his shoulder nothing more and its just so predictable throughout with the story beginning with him having an obsession with Britney Snow killing her family then comes back on her prom night to finish the job then whe you think the cops have got him he somehow escapes then there at her aunties house and you dont think the cops are useless against one guy but what do you know the killer has killed the cops and got her again before one guy comes along and everthing ends well and everyone lives happily ever after. Not worth a watch at all!

• Manu G

  
  It was an okey movie, decent enough when you have nothing else to do, it keeps you not bored. 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… More
  It was an okey movie, decent enough when you have nothing else to do, it keeps you not bored. 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 friends, she should be safe from the horrors of her past. But when the night turns deadly, there is only one person who could be responsible--a man she thought was gone forever. Now, Donna and her friends must find a way to escape the sadistic rampage of an obsessed killer, and survive a night "to die for."

• Jason S

  
  It's not a remake but a whole new movie with the same title as a classic slasher flick from the past, This works to it's favor though as sometimes you want to separate yourself from the stigma of not getting it right, so to speak. The plot is simple. Kids go to prom.… More
  It's not a remake but a whole new movie with the same title as a classic slasher flick from the past, This works to it's favor though as sometimes you want to separate yourself from the stigma of not getting it right, so to speak. The plot is simple. Kids go to prom. Killer goes to prom. Killer kills kids. The end. I did like the connection between the killer and the main girl of the movie. It made him seem a lot creepier than how he was played in the flick. There were a few missteps here. There were a bunch of times they could have made this scarier and worked in more mental issues for the main character. The killer could have teased her through the night making her go nuts and her friends think she's crazy. It might have helped with the lack of suspense. All in all it had some very small moments but really felt like it didn't go far enough. That's what happens when you make a slasher flick PG-13 though.

• Nicki M

  
  Not quite as bad as I expected, and an improvement on it's namesake, but still not the best and had an extremely abrupt ending. Couldn't really buy Brittany Snow as someone you would bother getting obsessive over, but supporting cast all reasonable, and as I said, better… More
  Not quite as bad as I expected, and an improvement on it's namesake, but still not the best and had an extremely abrupt ending. Couldn't really buy Brittany Snow as someone you would bother getting obsessive over, but supporting cast all reasonable, and as I said, better than expected.

• Kylie B

  
  Very average. It might've been more engaging if the psycho stalker angle hadn't been played so straight - for example if the teacher hadn't escaped, but it was a fellow pupil who had been obsessed with the teacher, and was jealous of his obsession with Donna. Then she… More
  Very average. It might've been more engaging if the psycho stalker angle hadn't been played so straight - for example if the teacher hadn't escaped, but it was a fellow pupil who had been obsessed with the teacher, and was jealous of his obsession with Donna. Then she might've actually been in some peril, which might make the viewer slightly more interested in what happens to her. I mean, sure she seems nice enough, but other than the trauma we know absolutely nothing about her, she's just a cut-out average teen. Or maybe that's just me; I do have trouble relating to 'normal' protagonists and many of their motivations. Hell, I even found the psycho teacher attractive with all his hair. That's a point, maybe if they'd set up his obsession more in the beginning, clocking its development etc it might've been more interesting. I know obsessive stalker types aren't the most rational, but other than the fact that she's stereotypically pretty there doesn't seem to be any reason why he would latch on to her; especially as most of the others in the school seem to be similarly pretty. Was she a good student? Or did they happen to have a lot of detentions together? I think what I'm saying is that if this scenario had been the ending half an hour of a different film, it might've been better - or that if they'd taken the opening premise and made a film out of that, rather than the generic slasher rubbish we're left with. When I see the original this may be compared and contrasted a little.

• Cassandra M

  
  Okay. So I just got back. Before I start my review, let me tell you one thing: I wanted to like this movie. I know I've been negative in the past, but I was hoping to be surprised and actually come out liking the film. I didn't. It's not just the fact that every horror… More
  Okay. So I just got back. Before I start my review, let me tell you one thing: I wanted to like this movie. I know I've been negative in the past, but I was hoping to be surprised and actually come out liking the film. I didn't. It's not just the fact that every horror cliché imaginable is in this. And it's not just the fact that they make every little thing into a jump scare (walking into a baseball bat left on the floor? Are you kidding me?). It just wasn't scary. One thing I was surprised about: there was more blood than I thought there was going to be.. which isn't saying much. The film starts off with Donna being dropped off by Lisa's mom at her house. She comes in.. goes upstairs. Camera pans to her father dead on the couch. Spooky. She goes upstairs, where the aforementioned baseball bat scene happens. Finds her brother on his bed, apparently dead (how could she tell? He didn't have a spot of blood on him). Killer comes in, Donna hides under bed, mom dies. She runs outside screaming for help. Killer behind her: "I did it for us." Cut to therapy session. This confused a lot of people- everyone was asking whether or not her family actually died or if she imagined it- and she mentions how the nightmares have started coming back. Filler dialogue ensues. THey cut to the chase pretty quick. Few scenes at the salon, they go to the hotel. Of course the killer is already there (for some reason, he escaped 3 days ago but the police/family weren't informed until he's already there). More filler ensues. I'm not going to go on about what happens in the film, because I don't want to spoil it too much. If you want to know who dies, Horror_Fan made a post about it already. But on the subjects of deaths: they weren't that exciting. People in the theatre actually laughed out loud (an experience I've never had before in a horror movie, not even in When A Stranger Calls) during several of them. One in particular: the bus boy guy who gives the most hilarious 'scared' face I've ever seen. The only death involving any blood was Lisa's, and that was pretty scarce. Her throat is slashed, blood (if you can even call it that- it was practically black) splatters on the curtain-thing. The only other blood was on Claire when we see her body. Apparently, Fenton decided to stab her a few times after he choked her to death. Um, okay? The movie was one of the most clichéd I've ever seen. Let's see here.. obligatory close-mirror-curtain-BOOM! scene. Check. Twice, actually (you could tell they were struggling). Mandatory backing-up-into-killer. Check. There's also the backing-up-into-lamp scene, but you've all seen that. Oh, you say you want a birds-flying-away scare? Well, you got it! (Yes, they managed to incorporate one of those in here). And, of course, the we-have-security-on-all-exits-but-he-still-escaped scene. Shall I go on? I could. For anyone saying the characters weren't stupid, are you kidding me? "Oh, even though the massive alarm is ringing, literally saying PLEASE VACATE THE BUILDING, and 3 of my friends are missing, I'm going to go upstairs to get my wrap." These characters were some of the most flawed and stupid characters ever. The only likable character - Lisa - made one of the most stupid moves in the movie. "Oh, I just realized the psycho-teacher is here! I must leave my strong boyfriend behind to run off by myself to warn her! Oh, shoot, the elevator is being to slow? Guess I'll take the stairs and run off into the construction site!" Ugh. By the end of the film, they all deserved to die. The only death anyone felt any remorse for was Donna's boyfriend (I can't even remember his name- is that bad?), and by that time, the audience was completely drained out of this scareless, clichéd film. There were SOME positives- the acting was decent for the most part, and it was well-shot. But that's about it. I'd give it a 1/5, and that's being generous. Just for the laughs (and believe me, the audience had a few), and Brittany Snow. Oh, and the reaction was bad. Very bad. People were boo-ing after the movie ended and buzz afterwards was very negative. Expect bad legs for this one.

• Roy G

  
  Snow makes an appealing lead but the movie is a routine slice em up thriller

• Lafe F

  
  Ugh, 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… More
  Ugh, 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.

• Corey W

  
  Just another stupid remake that has nothing to do with the original and that could only scare a four year old.

• Mason W

  
  Prom Night is a good scary film but not my fav....some good actors in it such as Brittany Snow and Johnathan Schaech. Some areas are too damn hard to believe that people are that dumb to do or not for a crazed person on the run..what a man does to be with the lady he loves...yikes!

• Nani V

  
  Man, this movie was horrible! It's stupid how people pop out here and there...it's too unrealistc. I can't appreciate this film, I can't!

• Morgan S

  
  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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