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  • Prom Night

    A deadly madman terrorizes a teen (Brittany Snow) and her friends at their senior prom.

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    REELZ REVIEW
    "If Kevin Federline showed up at your senior prom, you'd be pretty scared too...."  [more]
    — Thomas Leupp

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    • bigblue67

      03/22/08 11:13 AM
      this trailer of the remake of prom night like very good and scarey.
      Review Rating: +4
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    • Thomas Leupp

      ReelzChannel.com, April 11, 2008


      If Kevin Federline showed up at your senior prom, you'd be pretty scared too.


      Legendary author Stephen King once described his approach to horror as (and I'm paraphrasing): "If I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I Perky, pretty...and doomed!cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out." A good tip for any would-be horror filmmaker, and one sadly unheeded by the producers of Prom Night, a futile, toothless horror remake that fails to register in any of King's categories.


      Brittany Snow stars as Donna, a perky high school senior whose family was brutally murdered three years prior by an obsessed stalker (Johnathon Schaech). She's recovered remarkably well since that fateful night, and aside from her daily dose of anti-anxiety meds and the occasional terrifying nightmare, she's just like any other teenager, looking forward to graduation and getting ready for her senior prom. When the night of the big dance arrives, Donna and her pals Claire (Jessica Stroup) and Lisa (Dana Davis) happily go about their preparations, unaware of the fact that Donna's stalker has escaped from a "maximum security asylum" 2000 miles away and is making his way across the country to finish the job. Unshaven, wearing a baseball hat and looking eerily like Britney Spears' ex-husband Kevin Federline, the determined psychopath sets about his grim business of dispatching all of Donna's friends, one by one.


      Crippling Prom Night from the outset is its PG-13 rating, which instantly robs director Nelson McCormick of the "horrify" and "gross-out" options. (Indeed, each time the camera cuts to a character that's been previously stabbed, their wounds have strangely disappeared, as if each of the killer's victims possesses super-human, Wolverine-like powers of self-healing.) This might be ok if it were a smart psychological thriller like last year's PG-13 freakout 1408 (based on a short story by King, incidentally), which relied on paranoia-inducing mind games to achieve high marks in the "terrify" category. But Prom Night is a straight-up slasher flick, and when you can't see any of the slashing, it becomes, well...just a flick. And a highly forgettable one at that.


      ReelzChannel Rating:  3


      Disagree? Let me know at tleupp@reelzchannel.com.

    • bigblue67

      03/22/08 11:13 AM
      this trailer of the remake of prom night like very good and scarey.
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    • twitchywindowbreaker

      04/11/08 12:05 PM
      This Movie looks good
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    • babyphat776

      03/14/08 11:05 AM
      dis my movie and i ain't even c it yet and it look good and scarey!!!!!!!!!!1
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      • Duffbug

        04/20/08 12:10 PM
        Use your words!!!!!!!!!!!! My friend can't read it! I can but other people can't!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • Karona

      04/12/08 01:58 PM
      Prom Night is a hella frightfest! Horror fans may be upset that there is not more blood and gore, however, will be scared by the screams eminating on the screen and in the audience. Prom Night keeps you entertained and on the edge of your seat, as the characters who one by one find out too late that an obsessed psychopath is on the loose hellbent on getting his what he wants. Did they not watch Scream? Never go alone anywhere when people start to go missing! Overall, my friends and I enjoyed Prom Night for giving the fans of the genre what it wants. A night to die for!
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    • Duffbug

      04/20/08 12:08 PM
      I want to go see it! I am into horror films. I whent to the theatre yesterday but when i got there it was like halfway in the movie already and the next one wasn't on until like about an hour away and i didn't want to wait that long so i whent and saw The Ruins.
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    • Cheergrl

      04/25/08 06:04 PM
      ! cant wa!t 2 s33 th!s mov!3 2morrow !t looks so cool !m sur3 !ts gona b3 a n!ght 2 d!3 for
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    • pkilgore

      05/13/08 09:11 AM
      man i can't wait to see it i know i should have already went to watch it.it going to be good
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    • watzdat

      04/11/08 04:28 PM
      htis movie looks so scary but i want to go see it. it looks so interesting
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  • Crew

    Director Nelson McCormick
    Producer Neal H. Moritz
    Producer Toby Jaffe
    Executive Producer J.S. Cardone
    Executive Producer Bruce Mellon
    Executive Producer Marc Forby
    Executive Producer Glenn S. Gainor
    Executive Producer William Tyrer
    Executive Producer Chris J. Ball

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  • Prom Night Review

    Brittany Snow watches her backIn the new horror flick Prom Night, Brittany Snow (Hairspray) stars as a perky high school senior whose big dance is crashed by an escaped mental patient who just happened to murder her entire family three years prior. Does this slasher flick remake compare with the original 1980 version? Check out our Prom Night review.


    Posted 04/11/2008 by Thomas

    Brittany Snow | Prom Night

  • Hollywood's newest horror villain is...K-Fed?

    K-Fed on the left, Prom Night's Johnathon Schaech on the rightHorror movie villains are often modeled after real-life figures. As most genre fans know, the famously creepy mask worn by Halloween's iconic villain Michael Myers was actually a store-bought William Shatner mask, its hair teased out and face spray-painted white.

    Bearing that in mind, it's hard not to notice that the murderous stalker of the new slasher flick Prom Night bears a remarkable resemblance to a certain chronically underemployed, astoundingly fecund former beau of tabloid queen Britney Spears. Did Prom Night's producers intentionally model villain Johnathon Schaech's baseball-hat-and-five-o'clock-shadow ensemble after Kevin Federline? Check out a screening of Prom Night and let us know what you think.