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.
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04/10/08
Prom Night (1980)
33 %
Reviews Counted: 15 Fresh: 5 Rotten:10 Average Rating: 4.4/10
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
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 childhood sin. One by one, they drop.... [More]
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Leslie Nielsen, Casey Stevens, Antoinette Bower
Director: Paul Lynch
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If you forget motivation, the visual trick-or-treat of slow revenge is entertaining enough.
06/24/06
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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
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
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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
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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
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