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5.7/10 • 423

1980-07-181h 33m

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If you're not back by midnight... you won't be coming home!

At a high school senior prom, a masked killer stalks four teenagers who were responsible for the accidental death of a classmate six years prior.

Directors
Paul Lynch
Editors
Brian Ravok

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  1. Leslie Nielsen

    Leslie Nielsen

    Mr. Hammond

  2. Jamie Lee Curtis

    Jamie Lee Curtis

    Kimberly Hammond

  3. Casey Stevens

    Casey Stevens

    Nick McBride

  4. Anne-Marie Martin

    Anne-Marie Martin

    Wendy Richards

  5. Antoinette Bower

    Antoinette Bower

    Mrs. Hammond

  6. Michael Tough

    Michael Tough

    Alex Hammond

  7. Robert A. Silverman

    Robert A. Silverman

    Mr. Sykes

  8. Pita Oliver

    Pita Oliver

    Vicki

  9. David Mucci

    David Mucci

    Lou Farmer

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Wuchak

Nov 4, 2018

6/10

Quality slasher from 1980 with Jamie Lee Curtis Six years after a girl is accidently killed near Lake Erie in the Cleveland area, each of the offenders gets picked off on prom night by an unknown killer. Leslie Nielsen plays the principal of the school and father of the girl who died. “Prom Night” (1980) combines elements of “Carrie” (1976), “Halloween” (1978) and “Saturday Night Fever” (1977). It contains the prom set-up & conniving students of the first one, the slasher killer & Jamie Lee Curtis of the second and the disco dancing of the third. The emphasis of a group of teens in high school is reminiscent of the later “Christine” (1983). The movie debuted 2.5 months after “Friday the 13th” and less than 21 months after “Halloween.” While it’s the least of these as far as polished filmmaking goes, it’s not far off and scores better on the female front than all of them except “Friday the 13th.” It’s basically a coming-of-age flick focusing on high school in the Great Lakes region with the threat of a masked assailant. There are no less than four possible suspects and I was unable to guess the slayer. The film runs 1 hour, 32 minutes and was shot in the Toronto area (Richmond Hill, St. James Cemetery, Scarborough Bluffs and Don Mills Collegiate Institute). GRADE: B-

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$1,500,000.00
Revenue
$14,796,236.00
Keywords
high schooldancingdancerevengemurderpromserial killerslasherkillerdiscopsychored herring