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Prom Night (1980)

In today's review, I find drama and murder clash with the most important night of a seniors life. As I attempt a #positive review of the 1980 slasher Prom Night #LeslieNielsen #JamieLeeCurtis #DebbieGreenfield #CaseyStevens #BrockSimpson #EddieBenton

Childhood can be challenging on its own, yet if you can survive the perils of youthful naïvety, you get a dose of the drama and danger that is present in your adult years. These scars, and traumas can stick with of, moulding us into the people that we are today, if we make it out that is. In 1980, as the slashers started to pick up steam, a high school in Canada dealt with a buried secret, and a…

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PROM NIGHT (1980) – Episode 268 – Decades of Horror 1980s

“The killer’s comin’! The killer’s gonna get you!” Ah, yes, the childhood game everyone played. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Crystal Cleveland, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they discover who wins and loses in Prom Night (1980).

Decades of Horror 1980s Episode 268 – Prom Night (1980)

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

Directed by: Paul Lynch

Writing Credits: William Gray (screenplay); Robert Guza Jr. (from a story by)

Music by: Paul Zaza, Carl Zittrer

Cinematography by: Robert C. New (director of photography)

Selected Cast:

Leslie Nielsen as Mr. Hammond

Jamie Lee Curtis as Kimberly Hammond

Casey Stevens as Nick McBride

Anne-Marie Martin as Wendy Richards (as Eddie Benton)

Antoinette Bower as Mrs. Hammond

Michael Tough as Alex Hammond

Robert A. Silverman as Mr. Sykes (as Robert Silverman)

Pita Oliver as Vicki

David Mucci as Lou Farmer

Jeff Wincott as Drew Shinnick

Mary Beth Rubens as Kelly Lynch (as Marybeth Rubens)

George Touliatos as Lt. McBride

Melanie Morse MacQuarrie as Henri-Anne

David Gardner as Dr. Fairchild

Joy Thompson as Jude Cunningham

Sheldon Rybowski as Seymour ‘Slick’ Crane

Rob Garrison as Sayer

David Bolt as Weller

Beth Amos as Housekeeper

Sonia Zimmer as Melanie

Sylvia Martin as Mrs. Cunningham

Elizabeth M. Mason as Adele (as Liz Stalker-Mason)

Pam Henry as Car Hop

Ardon Bess as Teacher

Lee Wildgen as Gang Member

Brock Simpson as Young Nick

Leslie Scott as Young Wendy

Tammy Bourne as Young Robin

Dean Bosacki as Young Alex

Debbie Greenfield as Young Kim

Karen Forbes as Young Jude

Joyce Kite as Young Kelly

Prom Night (1980) is one of six horror films in which Jamie Lee Curtis appeared over a three-year span from 1978 to 1981 and the last covered by the Grue-Crew. Three John Carpenter films (Halloween, The Fog, Halloween II) and Prom Night are joined by Road Games and Terror Train. 

Prom Night is not the best of Curtis’s 1978-1981 six-pack of horror movies (does that go without saying?), but is it the worst? Leslie Nielsen, soon to go through his transformation to a standout comedic actor, has little to do as Curtis’s character’s father and the school’s principal. There’s also the student body providing fodder for the killer, the creepy kids that set the whole thing in motion fifteen years earlier, and athe disco music and dancing. Don’t worry. The Grue Crew will give you the straight poop.

At the time of this writing, Prom Night is available to stream from Shudder, Amazon Prime, Peacock, Hoopla, Kanopy, Tubi, PlutoTV, and Freevee. It is also available on physical media as a Blu-ray formatted disc from Synapse Films. 

Every two weeks, Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror 1980s podcast will cover another horror film from the 1980s. The next episode’s film, chosen by Chad, will be Ghost Story (1981), based on Peter Straub’s 1979 novel! The Grue-Crew has been wanting to do this one for a long time! If you heard them announce Without Warning (1980) on the podcast, they apologize for the change, but it is on the schedule for November. Be patient, fellow babies.

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Jamie Lee Curtis and Casey Stevens in Prom Night (Paul Lynch, 1980)

Cast: Leslie Nielsen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Stevens, Anne-Marie Martin, Michael Tough, Mary Beth Rubens, Joy Thompson, Antoinette Bower, Robert A. Silverman, Pita Oliver, David Mucci, George Touliatos, Sheldon Rybowski, Debbie Greenfield, Brock Simpson, Leslie Scott, Dean Bosacki, Joyce Kite, Karen Forbes. Screenplay: William Gray, Robert Guza Jr. Cinematography: Robert C. New. Art direction: Reuben Freed. Film editing: Brian Ravok. Music: Paul Zaza, Carl Zittrer. 

High school prom is scary enough without letting a killer loose at one: It's a nexus of adolescent anxieties about sex, style, and status. But of course that makes it a natural locus for the overkill of a horror movie like the classic Carrie (Brian De Palma, 1976). It would be nice to say that Paul Lynch's Prom Night is a classic of that order, but I really can't. It has a promising setup: A group of grade-school kids terrifies another kid into a fatal fall from the window of a spooky old building and, led by the snottiest girl in the group, cover up the fact that they witnessed and partly caused the accident. Six years later, they become the target for threatening phone calls, threats planted in their school lockers, and eventual murders at the prom. The identity of the murderer is slyly withheld until the very end -- although if you've seen enough of these movies you know how to eliminate the obvious suspects and maybe to catch the clues to whodunit. There are a couple of well-staged and suspenseful scenes as the victims get offed. But the film is loaded with too many dance-floor scenes that remind one of how nobody mourned when disco died. The top billing for the film goes to Leslie Nielsen, who plays the principal of the school and the father of the little girl who died, as well as her siblings Kim (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Alex (Michael Tough). But Nielsen has only a few scenes in the movie, and the role is a kind of valedictory to his career in "serious" parts: Airplane! (David Zucker, Jerry Zucker) came out the same year as Prom Night and launched him into the most memorable part of his career, as a deadpan comic actor. Though it was a big success in its day, Prom Night is more artifact than art, valuable mostly as a picture of its era. 

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Prom Night (1980)

Prom Night really makes you appreciate slasher films like Halloween or Black Christmas. I’m not sure why this Canadian night of celebration gone wrong has gained a cult status, but for the non-indoctrinated, it doesn't have much to offer besides a couple of neat kills and Jamie Lee Curtis’ performance.

In 1974, 10-year-old Robin Hammond dies while playing with Wendy Richards, Jude Cunningham, Kelly Lynch, and Nick McBride. The children keep what happened a secret and known criminal Leonard Merch is blamed for the young girl's death. Six years later, prom night coincides with the anniversary of the tragedy. Robin's older beother Alex (Michael Tough) is still deeply disturbed by what happened while his twin sister Kim (Jamie Lee Curtis) is set to be prom queen when they learn that Merch has escaped. When a masked killer begins stalking the REAL culprits one by one, who could be responsible?

Prom Night sets up several suspects for the killings. There’s the escaped criminal, Kim and Alex’s father (played by Leslie Nielsen), Alex, or someone who knows what really happened. There's an effort to keep us guessing and to give credit to the film, I didn’t guess the murderer's identity… but only because the film cheats. When you learn who did it, a number of questions will come up and they cannot be answered.

If you see this picture, sit down and really think about what happened. You’ll realize the plot doesn’t hold much water, which is why a mystery was tacked on to distract the audience. Take away the enigma and you’ve got a routine slasher film. As usual, the victims are too stupid to run for help and fall prey to the usual clichés. When one of your victims is in the same building as a school dance and she can't find a single person to ask for help, all believability is shattered.

Prom Night is a bad film, but it's not completely dreadful. Jamie Lee Curtis is quite charming and I got a kick out of seeing her and Casey Stevens on the dance floor. They’ve got some sweet moves. A few kills are memorable – though not many, since the killer’s gimmick of using broken mirror shards is dropped quickly – and the characters are given enough dimension to keep you interested all the way to the end. Jude (Joy Thompson) and her prom date, Seymour "Slick" Crane (Sheldon Rybowski) don’t get nearly enough screen time, but I’ll take what I get.

Once the whodunnit element of Prom Night has been solved, there’s not much to remember about the film. Want to see a slasher pic with Jamie Lee Curtis? Go with Halloween. Want some blood on prom night? Watch Carrie instead. Craving a mystery killer? How about Black Christmas or Scream? Even if you don’t want to compare this Paul Lynch film to other, better ones, Prom Night just doesn't stand out. (On DVD, October 31, 2017)

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spooky tuesday is a (now not so new!) podcast where we’re breaking down all of our favorite slashers, thrillers, monster movies and black comedies on the new scariest day of the week.

why don’t all horror flicks have a five-minute long disco dance scene? it seems like just the thing the genre is missing — but, luckily, prom night (1980) doesn’t disappoint on that front. on a new episode of spooky tuesday, we’re throwing it back to the OG prom movie as we talk about bad boyfriends, how having a sick van can help you find your soulmate, and the most jan brady-core piece of trivia we’ve ever heard. this jamie lee curtis original might not have taken off quite as much as its 70s and 80s contemporaries, but with its own set of mysterious phone calls and a shout out from scream’s randy meeks himself, you know it’s worth a watch.

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