It’s Prom Night…

The original Prom Night, filmed from start to finish on one whooping month, stars Jamie Lee Curtis in another role that helped earn her status of being one of Hollywood’s “scream queens.” Only in this movie, Jamie doesn’t play so much of a damsel in distress as she does a damsel who takes action.

Cause & Effect

All 10 year old Robin wanted to do was play with Kelly, Jude, Wendy, and Nick. She didn’t care that they were older than her. They did though and took a game that was innocent enough to a level that a scared 10 year wouldn’t understand, resulting in poor Robin falling out of a broken window to her death.

Although it was an accident, the 4 kids left standing vowed never to tell a soul, convinced they would do jail time if anyone were to find out.

Flash forward six years and Kelly, Jude, Wendy, and Nick are seniors having the time of their lives. Friends with most all 4 of them is Kim Hammond, older sister of dead Robin, only she doesn’t know they had anything to do with her sisters death.

Someone does, though, and they are leaving calling cards in lockers and making anonymous phone calls. Too bad the seniors are too stupid to pick up on the hints…..

Result

Prom Night in high school is highly anticipated and this movie claims nothing less. for Kelly and Jude, thoughts of sex is high on their on list of fun for the night. Kim, who is dating Nick (she has no idea of the foursomes involvement in her sister’s death) is focused on the disco number she has been practicing with Nick. And Wendy? Well, she doesn’t like Kim very much and is plotting a prank to let her know about it……

But there is someone else who eagerly awaits Prom Night. Someone who is singling out the 4 friends with a secret as one by one they are hunted down and killed at that someone’s hands.

Conclusion

I love these old screamers of the 80’s. In comparison to movies of today they may be lacking in gore/horror creativity, but for everything they lack, they make up for in entertainment value.

There wasn’t alot of bloodshed in this movie. It was mostly comprised of the suspense factor as found in Hitchcock movies (though not quite as intense.) You don’t see the knife go in, but you see the bleeding throat afterwards. You don’t see the decapitation, but you see the head laying in a puddle of koolaid blood on the floor. And of course, the murderer will surprise you with their identity (that is if you are not paying attention, otherwise I think it was pretty obvious who the killer was!)

Recommendation

Although I have not seen the remake that came out this past year, I can honestly say that I really enjoyed this one with Jamie Lee Curtis. Was it spectacular? No. Was it really scary? Like Halloween scary? Not even close. But was it entertaining? Yeh. It was. And I actually find myself wanting to check out the 2 and 3 and even the 4th installments. I might want to read up on them first though. Somehow, they almost always fall short after the first one….

What about you guys? Did any of you see the sequels? Should I check ‘em out?

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