Unusually incompetent from start to finish...
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07/25/08
Prom Night (1980)
31 %
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Reviews Counted: 16
Fresh: 5
Rotten:11
Average Rating: 4.3/10
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: A girl plummets to her death while fleeing from the taunts of four vicious classmates. Years pass: it is now prom night for the children who survived the incident, and someone -- or some thing -- is taking vengeance against them for their... [More]
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Leslie Nielsen, Casey Stevens, Antoinette Bower
Director: Paul Lynch
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Reviews for Prom Night
1 - 16 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
By the time the killer fully emerges from the shadows, clad head to toe in black, leaping around like some Filipino ripoff of Spider-Man 3, the game is pretty much lost.
04/12/08
The prom setting does little except provide the opportunity for a ridiculous disco interlude, while the killings are nasty rather than scary or effective and the outcome eminently guessable.
04/10/08
You'll just have to enjoy the scenes of Curtis disco-dancing and wonderful moments such as when the severed head of a victim rolls across the dance floor.
04/10/08
Director Paul Lynch seems to capture the spirit of the genre here, but spends a little too much time setting up each murder, thus eliminating some suspense.
04/10/08
Top Critic
If you forget motivation, the visual trick-or-treat of slow revenge is entertaining enough.
06/24/06
Top Critic Because it's quite easy to figure out the killer's identity by simply keeping track of who is off screen a lot, much of the movie is just vamping for time.
08/30/04
Top Critic
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