Prom Night.
Can I just start this off by saying I love me some Jamie Lee
Curtis. I mean it. I don’t care what
she’s in, I’ll watch it. Scream queen or comedian, I dig the gal, so when I saw
that she was in this, I was stoked.
One of the classics of the Slasher horror films, what I
really like about this one is that the script constantly puts in characters
that could be our villain, we never really know who it is, is it the skeevey
janitor, the rapist dude, the disgruntled teen, we never really know, so that
is fun to guess.
This is a classic slasher plot, of revenge, for the death of
an innocent, years ago. Now someone is
back for payback. We have seen this in
things like Final Destination, or I know what you did Last Summer, Scream, but
here it was one of the first.
The killing doesn’t start until later in the film (Prom
Night after all) so there’s plenty of scenes to get us guessing who the baddie
is.
The villain is visually unappealing, he’s literally a guy in
black clothes with a ski-mask. And he’s
not as proficient as you would expect, he doesn’t make all his swings count and
not always on target, which is completely different than the Mike Myers or
Jason, who is part supernatural force that is highly skilled with the machete.
Okay, having just finished the ending, that makes sense why
the killer isn’t that good.
Well, it’s not the best slasher, but I do think it’s better
plot-wise than most of the other slashers out there, like Friday 13th. Oh and it has Jamie Lee Curtis, so of course
I saw, go see it!
Hell Night
The other scream-queen Linda Blair is in this film.
While it’s clearly missing the JLC factor (Jamie Lee Curtis
for the uninitiated) I like the premise of Hell Night more than Prom
Night. College kids need to spend 1
night in a haunted mansion to get in the fraternity. Note all of these plots sound old, because
well, they are old, but remember this was 1981, this was what started it.
The killing starts earlier than Prom Night, while Hell night
came out in 1981 and Prom Night 1980, it
feels much more contemporary than Prom Night.
I think the setting is great, there are some nice locations
and sets that it goes to and ultimately it’s a good 80s slasher. Still think that JLC is better than Blair but
this is a better flick. So there you
have it.
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