Prom Night

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Also Known As

• Prom Night - Die Nacht des Schlächters (Germany)
• Prom Night - Grauen Ohne Namen (Germany)

Taglines

• If you're not back by midnight... you won't be coming home.
• ... Some will be crowned, others will lose their heads
• A prom queen's dreams turn to screams.
• This year Prom Night will be a scream
• A killer waits at the High School dance.
• The night someone came to the prom alone
• For some, it's the end of innocence. For others, it's The End!

Main Details

• Released in 1980

• Color

• Runtime: 91 min

• Aspect Ratio: (1.85:1)

• Rated: R

• Production Co: Quadrant Trust Company | Simcom Limited

• Distribution Co: Astral Films (1980) (Canada) (theatrical) | AVCO Embassy Pictures (1980) (USA) (theatrical) | Filmways Australasian Distributors (1980) (Australia) (theatrical)

Cast and Crew

• Directed by Paul Lynch

• Written by William Gray, Robert Guza Jr.

• Starring: Leslie Nielsen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Stevens, Anne-Marie Martin, Antoinette Bower, Michael Tough, Robert A. Silverman (as Robert Silverman), Pita Oliver, David Mucci, Jeff Wincott, Mary Beth Rubens (as Marybeth Rubens), George Touliatos, Melanie Morse MacQuarrie, David Gardner, Joy Thompson, Sheldon Rybowski, Rob Garrison, David Bolt, Beth Amos, Sonia Zimmer, Sylvia Martin, Liz Stalker-Mason, Pam Henry, Ardon Bess, Lee Wildgen, Brock Simpson, Leslie Scott, Tammy Bourne, Dean Bosacki, Debbie Greenfield, Karen Forbes, Joyce Kite, Michele Scarabelli

• Produced by Peter R. Simpson, Richard Simpson

• Original Music by Paul Zaza, Carl Zittrer

• Cinematography by Robert C. New

• Film Editing by Brian Ravok

Film Review

A group of kids (Nick, Wendy, Jude and Kelly) play a game in an old house where nobody lives anymore. Alex and his sisters Robin and Kim pass by (on the way to school) and see the others playing. Kim has forgot a book at home and tells them to go on. Alex wants to go to school but Robin wants to play with the others. She enters the old building and finds Nick and he chants out to the others to come over to Robin. They join Nick and begin to chant: "Kill, kill, kill..." and "The Killers are coming." Robin tries to run away but they are relentless. She goes backwards onto a window sill but suddenly the window breaks and she falls outside and ends up dead. The kids make a pact to never talk about this to anyone and drive away on their bicycles. But somebody else saw the death of Robin (that name I won't tell you). Six years later all the grown up kids get a telephone call from a stranger and after hanging up he crosses out each name on his list. Now everybody is getting ready for Prom Night. Who will survive? Who's the unknown killer? Does Jamie Lee Curtis get naked in this film?

I saw this movie the last time in the 90's. It seemed more horrifying, more brutal and more bloody in my memory (maybe when you get older, you see things different, haha). The beginning with the kids playing in that old house, that was great filmmaking. After that the movie got boring but after 1 hour the film got its glory back. Jamie Lee Curtis played every actor down to the ground. Sorry but I only like Leslie Nielson in comedies. But nevertheless it's a movie you have to see. It has its up and downs and some people call it a Cult Film. And always remember: If you're not back by midnight... you won't be coming home.

Reviewed by GBS - 02/28/08

Spoofed In

• Student Bodies (1981)
• Wacko (1983)