Ugh... Prom Night... I have to consider this to be one of the pointless re-makes of all time. Not because the film being remade was a work of art, but because the film being remade was just average. It was good, but not great. It was entertaining...
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Ugh... Prom Night... I have to consider this to be one of the pointless re-makes of all time. Not because the film being remade was a work of art, but because the film being remade was just average. It was good, but not great. It was entertaining and scary. Okay, scary-ish. There was no reason for the film to be remade. Well, what we have here is a very stupid, dull, badly acted, badly written, etc. re-make of an okay film. But there are four letters wrong with this movie: PG-13. Yes, PG-13. Okay, that's two letters, one dash, and two numbers. But you get my point. Had this film been R rated I might have enjoyed it more. There would have been more blood, and more blood can sometimes make a better movie. Now, it still would have been mediocre... Well horrible, actually, but I would have gotten to see the bad actors and annoying characters get cut up into little tiny bits and gobbled up by the boring killer. That would have gotten the movie a D- from me instead of an F+. But no. There is hardly any blood and you never see anyone get stabbed. And when they do get stabbed (I'm talking about one scene in particular) you see blood stains on the shirt, but no stab marks. Okay, now that I've gotten that out of the way, time to start nit-picking!
The plot: A high-school teacher gets obsessed with a female student and stalks her. Then he kills her family. Happy, happy, joy, joy. Said female student goes to live with her aunt and uncle. On the night of her senior prom, the killer escapes his cage that he was locked in (well he escaped a few days before said event) and kills the female's friends. It all ends up with the killer getting killed by the cliche rough and tough police man.
The acting: Horrible. That's all that needs to be said, but that's not all I will say. The actors spoke so softly that I could hardly hear them. So I missed out on certain plot points. Oh, yes, I know, boo-hoo. The only tolerable actor (or actress, in this case) was Brittany Snow.
Wow. I'm terrible sorry, but I realize that I have gone on for far too long about this movie. Seeing how's this is my first very detailed movie review I'm not sure where to go with it from here. (After all, reviewing a film is not like reviewing a video game.) Well, to make a long review short, the movie is horrible. Just horrible. The only reason I gave the film one star instead of a measly half-a-star is such: the annoying characters all die!!! :) Well, not all of them, but enough to make me happy. And, Brittany Snow was an okay actress.

The original, while not great, was at least tolerable. This is just unbearable. Predictable, boring and cliched as hell. The only good thing about it is Brittany Snow. But, still, it's just another stupid PG-13 remake. And a forgettable one at that.

It was alright.

The story was a little plain considering what's been done in the last 40 years - over and over again. It wasn't done too badly though. It managed to keep a bit of suspense at times.

One thing that seemed...
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It was alright.

The story was a little plain considering what's been done in the last 40 years - over and over again. It wasn't done too badly though. It managed to keep a bit of suspense at times.

One thing that seemed strange was how little blood they showed in the movie. For a slasher film it seemed like they were going for classy I guess? Every time someone was stabbed they seemed to find a way to cover it up or not show it. I'm sure it was for effect in some way but that seemed a bit lost along the way.

Also they do a bunch of the cat jumping out stuff so expect to be annoyed by that from time to time.

It was just alright. If you like slasher films, here's another one - go nuts.

The suspense in this movie is no laughing matter. Everytime you hear silence or someone is in a room by themselves the killer comes out of nowhere and either slits their throat or strangles them in order for him to get to Donna (Brittany Snow).