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| Prom Night (Unrated) | 
 enlarge | Director: Nelson Mccormick
Actors: Brittany Snow, Scott Porter, Jessica Stroup, Dana Davis, Collins Pennie
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  48 reviews
Sales Rank: 3366
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: Unrated
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 88
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: COLD19118D
UPC: 043396191181
EAN: 0043396191181
ASIN: B001AV3BWM
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: August 19, 2008
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Condition: Former rental with center label and minimal rotations. Boxart in great shape also.
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Product Description
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 01/27/2009 Run time: 89 minutes Rating: Ur
Amazon.com
An attractive cast of young performers lead by Brittany Snow (Hairspray) is the main selling point for Prom Night, a remake of the 1980 Canadian slasher film starring Jamie Lee Curtis. Snow makes for a capable lead as the sole survivor of her family's massacre at the hands of an obsessed teacher (Jonathan Schaech), who returns three years later to finish his campaign on the eve of her senior prom. While no one's idea of a classic horror film, the Paul Lynch-directed Prom Night offered viewers a modest whodunit angle in between the killings; here, the villain's identity is known from the get-go, and what's left is a string of mechanical stalkings (which feature a surprisingly modest amount of blood) and reams of turgid teenspeak, which is handled as best as possible by Snow and her cast mates. The end result is a dull, suspense-free chiller that manages to make its mediocre source material seem inspired by comparison. Older moviegoers may note the presence of actors Idris Elba and James Ransone, both used so well on The Wire, and so thoroughly wasted here. --Paul Gaita Stills from Prom Night (click for larger image)
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This was a total waste of time for me. April 20, 2008
7 out of 15 found this review helpful
Prom Night didn't feel like a remake at all. I give props to it for being it's own movie. The first five minutes clearly prove you're watching something different. But for me the movie never got off the ground and I wasn't interested at all. I'm starting to wish I saw that chick flick instead.
The story and plot is very different. But the execution was terrible. It's not scary in the slightest and there is no suspense. The movie was very predictable but atleast a tiny bit of thought was put into it... I guess. There is like, zero gore. The death scenes are just pulled off in some very uninteresting ways. This movie was weak in every way. I went to see this with an open mind but I seriously wasted my money.
I highly recommend waiting until it comes out just to rent it. As a matter of fact maybe you should go and see it. So you don't waste atleast $13.99 for the DVD.
 Pretty Bad... ***POSSIBLE SPOILERS!*** August 20, 2008
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
Just to put my own two cents in...This is NOT a remake of the 1980 Jamie Lee Curtis film. The only similarity between the two is that they have a Prom in them. That's it. Nothing else even slightly resembles the 80's film.
This film was mediocre at it's best moments. And those moments were scarce. Jonathan Schaech stars *and i use the term stars VERY, VERY lightly* as a psychotic, obsessed teacher who will stop at nothing to have his doe-eyed teen-student played by Brittany Snow, all to himself. He slaughters her whole family and she barely makes it out with her own life.
Cut to a year or so later and we find Brittany "coping" with the loss of her mom, dad and brother by going to her senior prom. Now, I think it might just be me, but If my entire family was hacked down by a person obsessed with me, i would probably feel a LITTLE guilty dancing it up at a senior prom. I think it would take me at least a decade until I could go out and party-it-up knowing that my family is dead because of someone who wanted to be with me. BUT, THAT'S JUST ME! CALL ME DEPRESSING...BUT, I WOULD WALLOW IN THAT GRIEF AND GUILT!
Anyways, Prom Night fails to deliver. It might just be because it's a movie aimed at a different generation than mine. My own senior Prom was 8 years ago, and culture seems to have changed (for the worse) in a lot of regards. The film definetly caters to the youth of America, which is normal. I could totally see younger teens and high school age kids loving this film...because it ties in that all-important Prom ritual that most kids look oh-so forward to (Ummmm, YAY) and there is nothing wrong with that.
But, this film felt SO all over the place. It was hard to really understand where it was going at times. The killer had no logic or reason to the people he killed. He just sat around and killed people for no reason. I especially didn't appreciate him stabbing the poor Latina maid who was probably working nights so her kids could wear decent looking clothes, while the spoiled, Gossip Girl hoochie mama's whine and moan about who is going to win the coveted Prom Queen title. I thought it was a little gratuitous with that death scene. If you are going to make a teen slasher flick...stick with killing the teens, don't slaughter random cleaning women. Once again, I'm just being critical.
Overall, the movie just felt WRONG to me. There was just something missing. I think a lot of it had to do with my own personal lack of sympathy towards that specific social clique-I really don't mind seeing the Bitchy girls (You know the type-The brats you see on MTV's SWEET SIXTEEN screaming that they wanted a BLACK Lexus instead of a Red one) and the a-hole Jock types (The ones who called you a f*g or rammed you into lockers) get picked off one by one because...errrrrrr...they kinda deserve it as far as the land of fictional Horror goes.
Let's face it, 75% of those kinds of kids in school were total douchbags and you KNOW you liked seeing a fictional version of them get a little fantasy retribution. haha.
Oh well...take it for what it is...a cheesy, marketing idea to draw teens to the theaters with a couple of mindless jump scenes and pretty, sparkly prom gowns.
I wouldn't bother with a rental....but do as you please!
[1.5]--Funny how its rated PG-13...... September 8, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
...And also explains why I didn't enjoy it much as I should. Just to let everyone know I seen this for free but regret spending my time on it anyway. And also just for the record my husband pick it out not me. After watching this I felt like I was watching a 91210 episode more then anything else. The direction by Nelson McCormick isn't good. He actually repeats a so-called shock moment twice in the movie, once near the start, the other near the end. Except neither are scary. He seems to be more interested in the scenes at the Prom, as opposed to the so-called horror/thriller parts of the story.
The kill scenes are bloodless. Using a knife, you would expect to see more blood spilled, but even when you see victims after, the so-called stab wounds look like simple stains on the clothing! As for the set-up of the kills, none are that shocking, surprising or scary. Tense chase scenes are ruined by dim-witted random pigeons appearing out of nowhere! As you can imagine I really disliked the pigeon sequence. The film being unintentionally funny just stomps the final nail in the coffin really, the porter death scene is something that I want to see again just for a laugh really. The poor dialogue is just embarrassing, the script is once again embarrassing, and the ending ridiculously predictable you might as well have not bothered to even see the movie from the get go. The movie does admittedly improve as it goes on in a way, the first forty minutes being almost unbearable. Once the killing starts you no longer want to slit your wrists, but you still have to cope with an incredible amount of lack of common sense.
The performances of the mostly unknown cast (to me at least) aren't that good, but Brittany Snow as Donna is awful. Admittedly her part as written does her no favors, but she's not good. In fact the only actress or actor of the group that was any good was Jessica Stroup. She was convincing in "The Hills Have Eyes 2" as a marine, and would have been a better choice for the lead role, in my opinion.
Overall Prom Night is a boring and lazy attempt at a horror movie. So try to save your money, go rent the original for a better slasher film that's associated to this.
Awful August 14, 2008
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
It's bad enough that we've had strings of cruddy remakes of classic horror flicks, but Prom Night marks a remake of a horror flick that, well, wasn't a classic. This modern day take on Prom Night stars Brittany Snow as the object of her former teacher's (Johnathon Schaech) obsession, who returns to make her life miserable after murdering her family some time before. Naturally, it just so happens to be the night of the big prom, and from beginning to end, Prom Night is an awful, utter bore. Nothing scary or close to suspenseful is to be found here, and the film as a whole (even unrated) is a tame and neutered slasher that provokes more yawns more than anything else. What's even worse is seeing actors like Ming-Na and The Wire vets Idris Elba and James Ransone appear in this waste, which is more of a shame than the film itself. Avoid.
 very realistic !!!!!!!!!!! May 4, 2008
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
Ok prom night is an amazing movie ! Its very realistic, this could actually happen!
My only complaint is that they could have made it a little bit scarrier ! but its a great horror/thriller movie ! deffinate buy !
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