This Week's Movies

I started this week off excited that my local place to rent movies had sprung to get the newest horror release "Prom Night." It did not do so well in its box office debut. I rarely listen to such talk because if I trusted everything Leanard Malton had to say, well, I would miss out on some gems and like a lot of crappy films to boot. It was in this rental that I decided that, for once, maybe the critics were right. So my first movie of the week is...

Prom Night (2008)

The cover alone suggested untold gore and mayhem. But all I saw was a bunch of rich kids running away from a very plain looking "psycho" with a small knife. To say that this movie was unoriginal just tips the iceberg. Through the numerous people making up the body count in this film, the only one that didn't die the exact same way the one before it died was the killer. And yes, I'm sorry for the spoiler, but the killer dies. Its not all that far fetched to assume that he would. The creative minds behind this movie were not present when this movie's dialogue was written and certainly not when it was shot. So were there any creative minds to begin with? Sure there were! The plot quite possibly was its only saving grace!! An attractive, emotionally distraught teen celebrating the final stage short of graduating her senior year of high school again bumps heads with the escaped stalker/murderer who fell in love with her and consequently killed her whole family. Unfortunately for those who consider themselves her friends, they find themselves on the wrong side of a very uninteresting murder weapon. Well, on the grading scale, this film receives.......

So there you go. A letter grade of C. Booooo.

But there's a happy ending here. It lies in the 1980 release of Prom Night featuring the "scream queen" Jamie Lee Curtis. In this movie, the plot is better, the death scenes are unique (as far as 1980s allowed) and there was a twist that you just don't see in horror films of late.

So now I bring you....

Prom Night (1980)

Its hard to believe nowadays that an all star cast really can be Leslie Neilson and Jamie Lee Curtis. The only hitch is that Leslie is playing one of the only serious roles I've ever seen him in and Jamie looks as though she's well out of high school in this film. However, the same could be said about her appearance in Halloween too however, so there you go. This movie is what drove movies like I Know What You Did Last Summer to be released. It centers around a group of kids, who, through some freak accident kill a girl when they were all 12. A pedofile is charged with the murder and in an attempt to elude the police ends up in a car accident which left him deformed and hideous. This review will contain a spoiler for the twist, so if you are reading this...and want to watch the movie...stop. At any rate 6 years later the guy breaks out of the psych ward (as they always do) and presumably attempts to hunt down the actual kids responsible and exact his revenge for maiming him. So they all start dropping one by one. It seems most die shortly after either having sex or doing drugs...(that's the 80s for you) all to a Prom themed "Disco Madness." So not only is the film cool because of its elaborate and well coreographed death scenes, it all happens to disco tunes! When the killer attempts to go after Jamie's new man, one of the kids responsible for the death of her sister 6 years ago, she puts the smack down on the killer with an axe. Then finds out that she's now responsible for killing her brother. Who was doing all this to avenge their little sister's death. Who knew? I guess Jamie should be happy with her boyfriend...now she'll have everything she wants as an only child. :)

This movie was rockin...It gets an....

But thats just what I thought, how about you?

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