Prom Night (Unrated) (DVD)

Senior high school student Donna is looking forward to her prom night. Attending with boyfriend Bobby, as well as best friends Claire and Lisa, she hopes it will signify a new start after the horrible occurrences of the past. A teacher from her school who developed a crush on her broke into her home and murdered her parents and brother while she hid under the bed. Now living with her aunt and uncle, she has recurring nightmares. All seems to go smoothly at the prom until Claire has a bust up with her boyfriend and escapes upstairs to the hotel room they are all sharing. At the same time, the police officer in charge of Donna's case discovers that her killer has escaped. ...  Read the complete review

Prom Night was released in 2008, and was directed by Nelson McCormick and starring Britney Snow as the main lead character. The film is a re release of the 1980 film of the same name. Hollywood has recently made a lot of horror remakes, notably Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre to name just a few. I hadn't seen or ever heard of Prom Night before this film was released and thus I wanted to watch it. From the name I got the basic premise that the film involves something horrible happening on Prom Night, and having a cast of teenagers starring in it you soon realize this is another teen horror film. Plot: The film starts of Three years ago, Donna ...  Read the complete review

note: also appears in part on The Student Room Some film remakes, although cash-ins, do make sense - they're an attempt to recapture the magic of a brilliant film for a new generation. Some other remakes, though, utterly astound me, such as Prom Night - why bother remaking a film that wasn't particularly good in the first place!? Some three years prior to the events of Prom Night, Donna Keppel (Brittany Snow) hid under her bed as her mother (along with her father and brother, who were dead already) was murdered by a teacher that was obsessed with her, named Richard Fenton (Johnathon Schaech). Some time later, as she gets ready to attend her prom, ...  Read the complete review

Has it really come to this? We're now being offered up remakes of seventies horror films that aren't even remakes, they're just borrowing the name. Next along on this rancid meat train is Prom Night, a film that puts the Ho Hum in Horror. The Prom is the pinnacle of the year for high school seniors, a chance for students to let their hair down, smuggle in some booze and generally act more annoying that usual. Our heroine Donna is dressed up and ready to move on with her life. She's still suffering the mental scars of having her family murdered by her former teacher who took obsession to a whole new level. But as the prom get's underway, ...  Read the complete review

With nothing to do this evening, other than slouch on the couch and be lazy, I decided to watch "Prom Night" on sky box office. I picked it for the blurb from Sky, "Donna is having a killer time at prom...until the psycho who slaughtered her faily returns to finish thejob. High school slasher remake starring Brittany Snow" I love a good silly slasher flick, and so I settled down to watch. Background. ---------------- Directed by Nelson McCormick , and written by J.S. Cardone , "Prom Night" was released in 2008. The film didnt give any advance screenings before its public ...  Read the complete review