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Prom Night
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Prom Night reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 17 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
4.6 out of 10
based on 12 reviews
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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for violence and terror, some sexual material, underage drinking, and language

Starring Brittany Snow, Scott Porter, Dana Davis, Brianne Davis, Collins Pennie, Kelly Blatz, James Ransone, and Johnathon Schaech

Donna's senior prom is supposed to be the best night of her life. After surviving a horrible tragedy, she has finally moved on and is enjoying her last year of high school. Surrounded by her best friends, she should be safe from the horrors of her past. But when the night turns deadly, there is only one person who could be responsible...a man she thought was gone forever. Now, Donna and her friends must find a way to escape the sadistic rampage of an obsessed killer, and survive a night "to die for." (Sony Pictures)


GENRE(S): Horror  |  Mystery  |  Suspense/Thriller  
WRITTEN BY: J.S. Cardone  
DIRECTED BY: Nelson McCormick  
RELEASE DATE: Theatrical: April 11, 2008 
RUNNING TIME: 88 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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70
Variety Joe Leydon
A surprisingly effective teen-skewing thriller that soft-pedals graphic violence (in marked contrast to the R-rated 1980 original) while generating a fair degree of suspense.
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50
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Formulaic to the core, this reworking of the fondly remembered high-school slasher picture works surprisingly well on its own terms.
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40
The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen
Without the gore, this old school slasher rehash is one anemic bore.
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30
Los Angeles Times Mark Olsen
This is as listless, mindless and utterly useless a piece of corporate brain-clog as one is likely to come across for quite some time.
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25
ReelViews James Berardinelli
Despite having the same title and a similar premise to a 1980 Jamie Lee Curtis flick (kids getting slaughtered on prom night), this is NOT a remake. In fact, it really doesn't have much of a plot. It's basically "The O.C." with a body count.
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25
Entertainment Weekly Clark Collis
Viewers' own evenings, meanwhile, will likely be ruined by unimaginative direction, inane dialogue, and Schaech's passing resemblance to Forrest Gump.
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20
LA Weekly Chuck Wilson
McCormick and screenwriter J.S. Cardone don’t have one original thought between them, but they do appear to share an obsession with characters opening hotel-room closets in which the steel hangers gleam ominously.
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20
The New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis
The movie offers less gore than the average Band-Aid commercial and fewer scares than the elimination episodes of "Dancing With the Stars."
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16
The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
There's really nothing much to Prom Night: No twists, no atmosphere, no big Grand Guignol setpieces, not a single moment when it tries to do something novel with the event, the killings, the villain, or the victims. It's a little like going on a tour of the slaughterhouse, where death is meted out with mechanical regularity, but visitors are kept at a safe, PG-13 distance from all the butchering.
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12
Boston Globe Wesley Morris
When Jamie Lee Curtis ran from a killer in 1980's "Prom Night," she was 22 and had a unique gift for belting out fear. She was the Beverly Sills of slasher flicks. That "Prom Night" was dumb, but it wasn't insulting in the way this remake is.
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0
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jason Anderson
A bland, timid and thoroughly un-thrilling teen thriller.
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0
Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
A nearly bloodless slasher film with fewer surprises than a broken jack-in-the-box.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 4.6 (out of 10) based on 156 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Annie H. gave it a9:
I loved it it was really jumpy and exciting. Quite a bit of blood but one of the best films out there! I must see film!

Frank S gave it a10:
This film is well worth seeing. It is a very good reimagining of the 1980 classic with an all new story. It's stylish, technically well made, well acted, well paced and an auspicious feature film directorial debut by Nelson McCormick. I enjoyed it and I am waiting for the unrated DVD to be released.

Rachel R. gave it a10:
Saw the movie yesterday. Full of suspense, interesting twists and turns. Slightly predictable but this adds to the suspense whilst 'waiting for the jumps and scares'. Acting was brilliant, loved the film. Its a MUST SEE.

Vikki L. gave it a9:
Although this re-make lacks the gore from the 1980's version, it can still send a shiver down the spine of any teenager. Very good.

Josh T. gave it a6:
Ok movie but very cheesy, too predictable and im pretty sure if ur mum was being murdered next to you would do something about it instead of covering your mouth with ur hand. Brittany Snow was OK but the chick that played lisa hines was poor. Also it was quite intense and had many jumps but the jumps just werent scary enuf.

Andrew S. gave it a3:
I saw this movie with some friends. Quite frankly it was rubbish. Me and my mate were laughing throughout the whole movie at the utterly predictable plot line.

Wilson G. gave it a1:
The movie was extremely predictable and the acting was pretty bad. Theres no real reason to see this movie.

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