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 "Prom Night" starts off promising with the kids playing their "killer" game, the harassing phone calls (obviously a key influence for the movie "Scream"), and the red herrings (i.e. the weird janitor), but it gradually loses its luster as the killer becomes less and less interesting. Depending on your affinity to 70's nostalgia, the heavy dose of disco seen at the prom can either be considered annoying or amusing. Unlike the prom from the 1976 horror classic "Carrie", this one (from 1980) literally looks like the disco scene from "Saturday Night Fever". Regardless of tastes, probably the most bothersome thing about the disco-prom scene is that they basically play the same song throughout the whole event. Leslie Nielsen and Jamie Lee Curtis are pretty good in this movie. However, Nielsen disappears in the second half, and it's pretty much all up to Curtis to carry the film, which unfortunately gives her little to work with by then. The bottom line: "Prom Night" is an okay slasher film, but the second half practically kills what has been built up from the promising first half of the movie. |
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** NOTE: The more dots, the higher the rating. A dozen dots mean that the movie is a masterpiece while one or no dots means that the movie is about as much fun as kissing an electric fence. ** |
    
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