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Prom Night

Release Date: 5th June 2008
Language: English
Running Time: 88 mins

Rating: PG
Genre: Thriller / Horror
Starring: Jonathon Schaech, Dana Davis, Idris Elba, Brittany Snow, Jessica Stoup
Directed by: Nelson McCormick

Movie Plot
Donna’s senior prom is supposed to be the best night of her life, one of magic, beauty, and love. Surrounded by her best friends, she should be safe from the horrors of her past. However, when the night turns from magic to murder there is only one man who could be responsible… the man she thought was gone forever. Now, Donna and her friends must escape the sadistic killer, and survive their Prom Night.

Movie Review
“Prom Night” was inspired by the 1980 classic of the same name, and is given a contemporary makeover by director Nelson McCormick. Starring a young and glamourous cast which includes Brittany Snow, Jessica Stroup, Dana Davis and Scott Porter, this enthralling thriller is a modern day slasher flick, brought forward from the original film which starred Jamie Lee Curtis at the height of her ‘scream queen’ notoriety.

Snow plays Donna Keppel, a high-school student who wants nothing but to end her definitive years in school with a bang. She has great friends, a great family and an ethereal boyfriend (Scott Porter) most girls could only dream of having, but she buries a traumatic baggage since witnessing her family being killed by a madman named Richard Fenton (Jonathan Schaech) who’s obsessed with her. Her aunt and uncle took her in after the incident, but the nightmarish events have never stopped haunting her.

The film certainly isn’t shy with suspense as viewers are fast thrown into a scare fest within the first five minutes, recollecting the tragic events that influenced Donna’s trauma. Years later, Donna seem to have put her nightmares behind her, but what she doesn’t know is that her stalker has escaped from the prison, and is now looking for her.

Now a senior in high school, Donna prepares for the most important night of her life – prom night – which takes up a big majority of the film. Along with her best friends Claire (Jessica Stroup) and Lisa (Dana Davis), the three girls and their dates rent a suite in the swanky hotel, oblivious to the fact that Fenton is prowling its corridors, willing to kill anyone who comes between him and his eternal love. Soon, one body after another is found and the story becomes a cat and mouse game for survival.

Aside from its ‘slasher’ factor, “Prom Night” is perhaps a very teenage flick, which can’t do without some token characters like the popular rich girls and some ignorant jocks who always come in a set of three or more.

The linear plot is too easy to predict, ignoring any special twists which could add some shock factor to this already way-too-simple horror flick. Its thin storyline is almost non-existent, and the scares were conveniently recycled – how many times have we seen the bathroom mirror scene already? The cast made the entire experience humdrum and with so little depth to any of them, no one’s inclined to care who dies and who doesn’t, while the supporting characters were like your appendix – they’re there, but certainly not for any useful reason. The school mean girl pranced about worrying about winning the Prom Queen title while no one else cared, and nothing was explained about how or why Fenton was madly infatuated with Donna in the first place.

Director McCormick, whose repertoire consists of a slew of TV series including “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” and “Prison Break”, makes “Prom Night” a very shallow affair, unwilling to go the distance and is only interested in relaying the bigger picture. Having directed hour-long TV series in the past gave this film a similar effect, thus making the entire film feel like it was merely a TV series stretched to feature-length, with little gore and a few cheap scares.

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Prom Night

Release Date: 5th June 2008
Language: English
Running Time: 88 mins

Rating: PG
Genre: Thriller / Horror
Starring: Jonathon Schaech, Dana Davis, Idris Elba, Brittany Snow, Jessica Stoup
Directed by: Nelson McCormick

Movie Plot
Donna’s senior prom is supposed to be the best night of her life, one of magic, beauty, and love. Surrounded by her best friends, she should be safe from the horrors of her past. However, when the night turns from magic to murder there is only one man who could be responsible… the man she thought was gone forever. Now, Donna and her friends must escape the sadistic killer, and survive their Prom Night.

Movie Review
“Prom Night” was inspired by the 1980 classic of the same name, and is given a contemporary makeover by director Nelson McCormick. Starring a young and glamourous cast which includes Brittany Snow, Jessica Stroup, Dana Davis and Scott Porter, this enthralling thriller is a modern day slasher flick, brought forward from the original film which starred Jamie Lee Curtis at the height of her ‘scream queen’ notoriety.

Snow plays Donna Keppel, a high-school student who wants nothing but to end her definitive years in school with a bang. She has great friends, a great family and an ethereal boyfriend (Scott Porter) most girls could only dream of having, but she buries a traumatic baggage since witnessing her family being killed by a madman named Richard Fenton (Jonathan Schaech) who’s obsessed with her. Her aunt and uncle took her in after the incident, but the nightmarish events have never stopped haunting her.

The film certainly isn’t shy with suspense as viewers are fast thrown into a scare fest within the first five minutes, recollecting the tragic events that influenced Donna’s trauma. Years later, Donna seem to have put her nightmares behind her, but what she doesn’t know is that her stalker has escaped from the prison, and is now looking for her.

Now a senior in high school, Donna prepares for the most important night of her life – prom night – which takes up a big majority of the film. Along with her best friends Claire (Jessica Stroup) and Lisa (Dana Davis), the three girls and their dates rent a suite in the swanky hotel, oblivious to the fact that Fenton is prowling its corridors, willing to kill anyone who comes between him and his eternal love. Soon, one body after another is found and the story becomes a cat and mouse game for survival.

Aside from its ‘slasher’ factor, “Prom Night” is perhaps a very teenage flick, which can’t do without some token characters like the popular rich girls and some ignorant jocks who always come in a set of three or more.

The linear plot is too easy to predict, ignoring any special twists which could add some shock factor to this already way-too-simple horror flick. Its thin storyline is almost non-existent, and the scares were conveniently recycled – how many times have we seen the bathroom mirror scene already? The cast made the entire experience humdrum and with so little depth to any of them, no one’s inclined to care who dies and who doesn’t, while the supporting characters were like your appendix – they’re there, but certainly not for any useful reason. The school mean girl pranced about worrying about winning the Prom Queen title while no one else cared, and nothing was explained about how or why Fenton was madly infatuated with Donna in the first place.

Director McCormick, whose repertoire consists of a slew of TV series including “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” and “Prison Break”, makes “Prom Night” a very shallow affair, unwilling to go the distance and is only interested in relaying the bigger picture. Having directed hour-long TV series in the past gave this film a similar effect, thus making the entire film feel like it was merely a TV series stretched to feature-length, with little gore and a few cheap scares.

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