{"id":70101,"date":"2021-03-04T12:13:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T19:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=70101"},"modified":"2021-03-04T13:51:46","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T20:51:46","slug":"prom-night-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=70101","title":{"rendered":"Prom Night (1980)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;I&#8217;ve always been really sorry about it.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Prom-Night-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Prom-Night-Poster-199x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-70102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Prom-Night-Poster-199x300.png 199w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Prom-Night-Poster-681x1024.png 681w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Prom-Night-Poster-85x128.png 85w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Prom-Night-Poster-179x270.png 179w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Prom-Night-Poster.png 749w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nSix years after a group of 11-year-old kids (Brock Simpson, Leslie Scott, Karen Forbes, and Joyce Kite) accidentally cause the death of their bullied friend (Tammy Bourne) during a brutal hide-and-seek game, a mysterious masked killer begins plotting the demise of each of the teens (Casey Stevens, Anne-Marie Martin, Joy Thompson, and Marybeth Rubens) as they prepare to participate in a disco-themed Prom Night. Meanwhile, the dead girl&#8217;s sister (Jamie Lee Curtis) &#8212; who is dating Stevens &#8212; is about to be crowned Prom Queen, but must deal with the wrath of Stevens&#8217; spurned ex-girlfriend (Martin), who has enlisted the help of a local tough (David Mucci) in seeking revenge.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Horror Films<\/li>\n<li>Revenge<\/li>\n<li>Serial Killer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nThis immensely popular Canadian slasher flick was clearly inspired by numerous previous hits, including <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=32268\"><em>Carrie<\/em> (1976)<\/a> (with its emphasis on prom-night-gone-wrong), the disco-fever of <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> (1977), Jamie Lee Curtis&#8217;s popularity in <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=38015\"><em>Halloween<\/em> (1978)<\/a>, and the kill-one-teen-at-a-time plotline of <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=69513\"><em>Friday the 13th<\/em> (1980)<\/a>. On its own merits, <em>Prom Night<\/em> is unexceptional, but meets expectations in terms of offering up plenty of frights and gore. Interestingly, it served as direct inspiration for the spoof horror flick <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=51711\"><em>Student Bodies<\/em> (1981)<\/a>, which similarly features an odd-looking janitor (here played by Robert Silverman), a high school principal (here played by Leslie Nielsen!), spooky phone calls to victims, and a host of potential suspects.   <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Atmospheric cinematography<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Prom-Night-Curtis.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Prom-Night-Curtis-1024x573.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"358\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-70103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Prom-Night-Curtis-1024x573.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Prom-Night-Curtis-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Prom-Night-Curtis-128x72.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Prom-Night-Curtis-768x430.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Prom-Night-Curtis-1536x859.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Prom-Night-Curtis-483x270.png 483w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Prom-Night-Curtis.png 1829w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Prom-Night-Cinematography.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Prom-Night-Cinematography-1024x566.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"354\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-70104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Prom-Night-Cinematography-1024x566.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Prom-Night-Cinematography-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Prom-Night-Cinematography-128x71.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Prom-Night-Cinematography-768x424.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Prom-Night-Cinematography-1536x849.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Prom-Night-Cinematography-489x270.png 489w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Prom-Night-Cinematography-1038x576.png 1038w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Prom-Night-Cinematography.png 1837w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Effective use of flashbacks<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Prom-Night-Flashbacks.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Prom-Night-Flashbacks-1024x568.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-70105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Prom-Night-Flashbacks-1024x568.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Prom-Night-Flashbacks-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Prom-Night-Flashbacks-128x71.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Prom-Night-Flashbacks-768x426.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Prom-Night-Flashbacks-1536x852.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Prom-Night-Flashbacks-487x270.png 487w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Prom-Night-Flashbacks-1038x576.png 1038w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Prom-Night-Flashbacks.png 1833w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo; you can skip this one unless you&#8217;re a fan of slasher flicks. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0081383\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thespinningimage.co.uk\/cultfilms\/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=2749\">Spinning Image Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canuxploitation.com\/review\/promnight.html\">Canuxploitation Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moriareviews.com\/horror\/prom-night-1980.htm\">Moria Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve always been really sorry about it.&#8221; Synopsis: Six years after a group of 11-year-old kids (Brock Simpson, Leslie Scott, Karen Forbes, and Joyce Kite) accidentally cause the death of their bullied friend (Tammy Bourne) during a brutal hide-and-seek game, a mysterious masked killer begins plotting the demise of each of the teens (Casey Stevens, Anne-Marie Martin, Joy Thompson, and Marybeth Rubens) as they prepare to participate in a disco-themed Prom Night. Meanwhile, the dead girl&#8217;s sister (Jamie Lee Curtis)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=70101\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70101"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70116,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70101\/revisions\/70116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}