Prom Night

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Prom Night

PG-13,

2008,

1h 28m,

Horror/

Mystery & Thriller

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When a deranged high-school teacher kills the family of the girl, Donna, that he loves, in a disturbed attempt to force her into a relationship with him, the man is caught and sent to prison. However, years later, at her high school prom, Donna is about to come face to face with the murderer once more. Will Donna and her friends escape the psychopath?

Critics Consensus

A dim and predictable remake of an already dull slasher film, this Prom Night fails to be memorable.

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Xan Brooks

Guardian

Oct 18, 2008

2/5

I liked the way in which the teens find ever-more elaborate pretexts to take themselves off, alone, into the darkness to investigate this or that.

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Marc Savlov

Austin Chronicle

Oct 18, 2008

0/5

This do-over isn't so much an improvement over the original as lousy in a whole new direction, a nearly bloodless slasher film with fewer surprises than a broken jack-in-the-box.

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Tim Grierson

Screen International

Jul 23, 2008

One of the most memorable nights in a teenager's young life is grist for a pretty unmemorable movie in this tame horror entry that follows conventions to the letter.

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

Feb 22, 2023

1/4

The movie won't even satisfy viewers looking for cheap thrills and buckets of blood.

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Stephanie Archer

Film Inquiry

Jul 2, 2022

While it fails to break new ground, it does shape itself up to be a prime example of horror films that may be due, especially in this new wave age of horror, for another induction.

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Micheal Compton

Bowling Green Daily News

Oct 29, 2019

F

About the only positive thing I can say about Prom Night is that it does manage to have a few unintentionally humorous moments.

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Apr 18, 2019

It may or may not be one the worst horror movies ever made, but it's indeed the lamest slasher movie I've ever seen. When a movie starts with a PG-13 family murder scene, you know the rest of the movie will be dull. The acting was mediocre at best, the music selection was obnoxious, and the scares were nonexistent, but there were certainly a lot of jump scares. It's a generic slasher movie where you know which characters are going to die. Basically, any characters that goes upstairs will be killed. This movie is less than an hour and a half long, but the pacing was excruciatingly slow. The villain takes way too long to kill the characters as the movie tries to build "suspense" before they decide to inevitably kill off the characters, and this attempt at building suspense hurts the pacing immensely. This movie is so bad that not even Idris Elba could make this movie watchable. Don't waste your time with this one!

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Oct 17, 2018

A very poor movie. Not scary or horrifying. I shake but it's because I get a cold from this movie

Draco S

Jul 8, 2018

This movie is definitely cliche and predictable but I'm okay with that! This is a movie where you either really like it or really hate it.

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Luke S

Apr 16, 2018

This movie had the worst movie ending that I have ever seen in my life.

Oct 20, 2017

i really love this remake!!â?¤

Leia M

Oct 3, 2017

This is terrible!! This made me want to vomit if I ever see it. 1/10

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Synopsis

When a deranged high-school teacher kills the family of the girl, Donna, that he loves, in a disturbed attempt to force her into a relationship with him, the man is caught and sent to prison. However, years later, at her high school prom, Donna is about to come face to face with the murderer once more. Will Donna and her friends escape the psychopath?

Director: Nelson McCormick
Producer: Neal H. Moritz, Toby Jaffe
Screenwriter: J.S. Cardone
Distributor: Sony Pictures Entertainment, Screen Gems
Production Co: Newmarket Films, Miramax, Alliance, Original Film
Rating: PG-13 (Some Sexual Material|Language|Underage Drinking|Violence and Terror)
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 11, 2008, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 2, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA): $43.8M
Runtime: 1h 28m
Sound Mix: Dolby SRD, DTS, SDDS
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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