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Prom Night
Starring: Brittany Snow, Johnathon Schaech, Brianne Davis, Kelly Blatz
Directed by: Nelson McCormick
Produced by:
Neil H. Moritz, Toby Jaffe
Written
by: J.S. Cardone
Distributor: Sony Pictures Releasing, Screen Gems |
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Prom Night is technically a remake of a 1980 Jamie Lee
Curtis feature of the same name but, in truth, the only two
traits that it bears in common with that film are its high
school-prom setting and its membership-card to the slasher-horror
genre. In fact, the movie is far more similar to another recent
re-imagining of a Curtis picture: Rob Zombie’s Halloween.
While director Nelson McCormick and writer J.S. Cardone don’t
take body-count here to the offensive height that Zombie did in
his film, Prom Night follows exactly the same structure
as Zombie’s effort: 1) a teenage girl will be endangered if a
certain bad man who wants to do bad things to her escapes from
jail, 2) the bad man unexpectedly does escape from jail
and, 3) the girl must do everything that her illogical, ditzy
brain will allow to stay alive as the bad man chases after her.
Oh, wait, did I just summarize the plot of nearly every
teen-targeted horror picture released in recent years? Perhaps I
was a little short-sighted in making the aforementioned
Halloween comparison: Prom Night is just like every
other recent entry into its genre. Sure, the movie is too benign
and predictable in its delivery for the viewer to find it even
the least bit objectionable. And sure, it has a few good
qualities, Brittany Snow’s sympathetic lead performance being
the best of them. But who really cares? We’ve all seen this
movie before and we’ll surely see it again. Unless you’re a
thirteen-year-old girl who will be scared by and involved in
drivel of the utmost tepidity, there’s absolutely no reason for
you to see Prom Night.
-Danny Baldwin,
Bucket Reviews
Review Published
on: 4.11.2008
Screened on:
4.13.2007 at the Edwards San Marcos
18 in San Marcos, CA.
Prom Night is rated PG-13 and runs 88
minutes.
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