Sorry, this movie sucks

One of the best films i have seen

Masterful Movie

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

So every year, maybe two on a bad run, there is a Prom movie. Some years it RomCom, some it's thriller, other's horror, and then... then there is this plop of elephant excrement laying on the road with Brittany Snow hanging out at an off angle, a fateful tiara laying there being crushed under the landslide of indifference about this movie.Okay, Miss Snow might have been not bad! But if you are going to give someone a coming of age present, like a shiny new car, in which to showcase their driving skills- make sure it damn well runs! If you give them a movie to star in, which it seems like the studio did, get people to make it who know what they are doing.---Spoliers--- (yeah!ppft!)Here is an example: If you take a maid, stab her 7-10 times in the thorax and abdomen THERE WILL BE BLOOD! When Michael walks in looking for throat slit Claire, who had been handily rolled under the bed, THERE WILL BE A LOT OF BLOOD! This is rather important. Hang on. THIS IS RATHER IMPORTANT! Nobody... NOBODY handles multiple stabbing victims looking like they just walked out of the shower.Well, Producer, so you didn't want a slasher look with all that blood?! Make a different film. Stabby=Bloody---end spoilers--- Idris Alba. Kind of phoned it in didn't he? Look, because the Teen Horror Cop Trope was in play it probably wasn't his fault. At least he has the chops and the mother country to fall back on.No. Bad. Go lie in your basket.

Prom night the remake just isn't that great of a movie. The acting is pretty wooden and phoned in. The writing and script is run of the mill and horribly cliché. There were some entertaining moments, some of the kills were kinda thrilling and some of the action/running sequences were fun and had a little adrenaline. But the overall plot was just so cliché and been there done that that it was kinda hard to overlook. Brittany snow (John Tucker must die) was enjoyable as the lead, and Kellan Lutz (Twilight) is alright I suppose, the rest of the cast are just cardboard cut out characters that fall flat. The violence wasn't too graphic or gory, it was PG-13 level goriness, which was good, I thought an R rating would've been too much considering teens are the target audience for this remake. 4/10 for the 2008 remake of prom night.

Donna Keppel (Brittany Snow) returns home to find her obsessed former teacher Richard Fenton killing her family. He's put away in prison but she still has nightmares about him despite treatment from Dr. Crowe. Three years later, she's going to senior prom with boyfriend Bobby, best friends Lisa Hines and Claire. Then Detective Winn (Idris Elba) is told that Fenton had escaped from prison. He contacts Donna's new guardians Aunt Karen and Uncle Jack. Winn tries to find Donna but Fenton is already at the prom.It's a lot of unscary jump scares. Everything is predictable. It is all paint-by-numbers horror. The kills are nothing special. It's not especially bloody. The killer isn't a mystery. The cops are really incompetent. It shouldn't be that hard to find a girl. Even in a world without cell phones, they could call the front desk. When they find the dead body, they should be rushing around. I know they don't want a panic but there's a killer on the loose. It's also not good for the tension of the movie. It just feels lifeless.

Currently this film is rated 3.6/10 and that is very generous. As a massive fan of the horror genre, I can usually find a positive for any film but I just can't with this. The acting is terrible, the plot is ridiculous and poorly planned, the editing is poor, there is no continuity and the worst aspect? The killer isn't the least bit intimidating or scary. The kills are exactly the same, it's basic level horror tactics with no direction or authenticity, even for a remake this is horrible. Idris Elba is a superb actor (See Luther) but his American accent is horrendous (He's British) and completely undermines his power and influence as the leading detective. Honestly, I wasted 90 minutes watching this film, I hope you don't do the same.