A different way of telling a story

All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

First, this film has zero relationship with the 1980 movie "Prom Night". It has its pluses. Much of the acting is pretty good. Some of the dialog is good. Some of the effects are good for the Eighties, some not so good. I thought it was going to be a slasher movie, but it isn't, it goes supernatural pretty quick. Wendy Lyon was pretty good, and looked awesome. But she is among the many actors who seem a bit old for high school. Overall, it is OK, just barely.

Has nothing to do with the Jamie Lee Curtis 1980 original. Here in 1957 a cheating Mary Lou Maloney (Lisa Schrage) is named Prom Queen. She is burned to death after a prank goes horribly wrong coming from a jilted lover. Fast forward 30 years and her spirit is walking the hallways of Hamilton High. Or rather possessing Vicki Carpenter (Wendy Lyon) who is dating the son of Bill Nordham (Michael Ironside) who was hurt by Mary Lou 30 years prior on prom night. Does quite a good job on the possession angle and sort of feels almost like a Canadian-Nightmare on Elm Street. Just insert Mary Lou instead of Freddy. In fact at times plays out a little bit like, but works better than A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (which was made 2 years prior). Certainly worth a look.

The name-only sequel to 1980's "Prom Night" is a tiresome exercise in schlock horror, taking cues from the "Elm Street" movies, "Carrie", and I guess, "The Exorcist", too.It's not as good, or anywhere near as interesting, as those movies.It's about a repressed, goody-two-shoes girl from a religious family ("Carrie") who discovers the dress of some slut from 1957 and, putting it on, is possessed by her spirit ("The Exorcist"). She has a number of scary hallucinations that cause rocking horses to grow teeth and make everything look dirty, like any of the dream sequences in the Elm Street movies. She starts behaving badly, though not interestingly, and the movie culminates in some mayhem at the titular "Prom Night" ("Carrie" again).The movie is really nothing you haven't seen before. The only horror movie it doesn't crib from is, well, the one it's named after! It's not even really a slasher.

Years after a tragic accident, a high school's decision to bring back the traditional prom dance results in one student becoming possessed by a long-dead prom queen who tries to ensure she wears the crown again.Overall this was quite the distressing but enjoyable effort. One of the better elements here is the rather nice way it sets up the actual possession here as being quite subtle, taking pretty twisting turns to get that exposed. The initial sequence where the removal of the jewels causes the resurrection of the being and the resulting extravagant kill makes for a great set-up, a later scene in her bedroom being filled with whispering voices as her dolls and figurines come to life being a crazed and delirious sequence while the main transformation scene involves her being absorbed into a chalkboard in a fantastic shock scene that signals this quite well. There's also a lot of great notes here that signal this further from the behavioral change into her past amorous qualities including dealing with her parents before the dance and the general wardrobe change as well with the shockingly gratuitous seduction in the shower altogether makes for a pretty nice and original way to showcase this. It also allows for a couple of rather enticing action scenes as well which is mainly based on the absolutely frenetic and crazy prom sequence that's full of delirious images and scenes including the appearance of the possessed figure from inside her body in front of everyone while the pulsing lighting make the whole thing all the more energetic which combines with the panicked crowds and enjoyable supernatural action to really account for the film's best part. These do manage to hold off the film's few flaws nicely which really starts with the film's rather puzzling decision to feature such strong supernatural overtones in a franchise that went for the realism approach beforehand. The curious decision to feature both possession and reincarnation as main themes here are mishandled anyway by being just so haphazardly placed around in the series that it really tends to stick out here due to that change in tone. Likewise, because this one really makes for quite a disjointed beginning by really making the first half quite challenging by slowly dragging the possession out to a point where the pace in here struggles to get going as it seems to keep recycling the idea of her simply being unaware of what's happening and having both her home-life and school-work suffer due to that. As very few of those tactics, regardless of how impressive they all add together to be at detailing the possession, are hardly all that scary to begin with does factor into that and serves as the film's true flaws.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Language and Full Nudity.