Prom Night [2008]
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Suitable for 15 years and over Sony Pictures Release date: Monday 13th of October 2008 Starring: Director(s): Format: PAL, Region code: 2 Running time: 85 minutes |
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Editorial
Amazon.co.uk Review
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, Amazon.com
Endless Prom Night
Review date: 2008-11-29 Rating: 2 out of 10
Utterly pointless in so many ways, for ''reimagining'' of the original read dumbing down, and the Jamie Lee film wasn't exactly Thomas Pynchon to start with! All quirks and narrative twists are ironed out,leaving a totally predictable, moribund and mechanical piece of .... cinema. The fact this even got the green light in 2008 beggars belief - it's like 30 years worth of slasher films never happened. Meanwhile the direction is perhaps the most unimaginative I've seen in a major Hollywood relase whilst simultaneously managing to be jawdroppingly inept in places - this man cannot even stage the most simple murder sequence.
How a movie like All The Boys Love Mandy Lane, which at least attempts to do something different within this largely played out genre, can be criticised by some viewers who actually liked this, heaven knows. In a word, dreadful.
Reviews
A solid entry to the prom series...
Review date: 2008-10-25 Rating: 6 out of 10
I disagree with those who think this "remake" as a dull film. What they expected to see ? A godfather film ?
This was a typical horror film which has a certain atmosphere beautiful chicks and suspense especially in the last 30 minutes which is a usual thing for a typical horror movie.
Sure we saw these things before from other horror movies and the killings were not shown entirely that's why i remove 2 stars BUT i think it deserves 3 stars at least and a chance to be in your horror dvd collection together with the early 4 PN films.
Great movie!!!!!!!
Review date: 2008-10-22 Rating: 8 out of 10
This is a great movie I dont usually watch horror films but I went to see this at the cinema with my friends and I loved it so I bought it when it came out on DVD. I wouldnt reccomend this film to true horror fans but I would reccomend it to fans of films such as "I know what you did last summer".
Amazing film!! a must-see!!
Review date: 2008-09-29 Rating: 10 out of 10
This film is an emotional thriller its brilliant to watch and has you on the edge of your seat all the way throught..love it!! x
[1.5]--Funny how its rated PG-13......,
Review date: 2008-09-27 Rating: 2 out of 10
...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.
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Kelly Blatz
Brittany Snow
Brianne Davis
Brad Davis
Jessica Stroup
Creators:
Brad Davis (Primary Contributor)
Jessica Stroup (Primary Contributor)
Director(s):
Recording label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
EAN: 5035822806108
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: PAL,
Release date: 2008-10-13
Audience rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 85 minutes
Theatrical release date: 2008
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