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Overview

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Director:
Paul Lynch
Writers:
William Gray (screenplay)
Robert Guza Jr. (story)
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Release Date:
18 July 1980 (USA) more
Tagline:
There's a special night in the lives of all of us. A night to be beautiful. To be desirable. A night we can break all the rules and make our own. Prom night. more
Plot:
A masked killer stalks four teens responsible for the accidential death of a child six years earlier at their high school's senior prom. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
2 nominations more
User Comments:
Sit this one out more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Leslie Nielsen ... Mr. Raymond Hammond

Jamie Lee Curtis ... Kim Hammond
Casey Stevens ... Nick McBride
Anne-Marie Martin ... Wendy Richards (as Eddie Benton)
Antoinette Bower ... Mrs. 'Vi' Hammond
Michael Tough ... Alex Hammond
Robert A. Silverman ... Mr. Sanford Sykes (as Robert Silverman)
Pita Oliver ... Vicki Cantrell
David Mucci ... Lou Farmer

Jeff Wincott ... Drew Shinnick
Mary Beth Rubens ... Kelly Lynch (as Marybeth Rubens)

George Touliatos ... Lt. Darryl McBride
Melanie Morse MacQuarrie ... Henri-Anne Weller
David Gardner ... Dr. Rupert Fairchild
Joy Thompson ... Jude Cunningham
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Additional Details

Runtime:
90 min
Country:
Canada
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Norway:15 (DVD rating) | Finland:(Banned) (uncut) (1981) (theatrical release) | Finland:K-18 (uncut) (2005) (DVD) | Finland:K-18 (heavily cut) (1983) (video) | France:-12 | Singapore:NC-16 | UK:X (original rating) (1980) | Italy:T (VHS) | Italy:VM18 | Australia:M | Norway:18 (1980) | UK:18 (re-rating) (1987) | USA:R | West Germany:18 (nf) | Iceland:(Banned) | Sweden:(Banned) (original rating) | Sweden:(Banned) (re-rating) | Germany:BPjM Restricted

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The line, "It's not who you come with, it's who takes you home," appears in all the Prom Night movies. more
Goofs:
Boom mic visible: As Kim and two of her friends walk down the school hallway, they stop where Wendy and Nick are. The boom mic is visible moving around above Nick's head. more
Quotes:
Kim Hammond: You seem a little anxious, Wendy. By the way, who are going with tonight?
Wendy Richards: It's not who you go with, honey. It's who takes you home.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Full House: Prom Night (#6.22)" (1993) more
Soundtrack:
Fade To Black more

FAQ

Can you guide me through Wendy's chase?
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15 out of 23 people found the following comment useful:-
Sit this one out, 26 February 2001
Author: Matthew Patay from Abington, Pennsylvania, USA

Another average slasher flick, one of two that scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis made back to back during her time in Canada fresh from her fame in John Carpenter's Halloween in 1978. It opens with four young kids in an abandoned building playing a macarible game when one girl joins them and it leads to her accidently falling out of a second floor window to her death. The four kids (three girls and a boy) make a pack never to mention it to anyone. But six years later, someone knows about the killing and decides to get those four responsible. As it also happens the anniversary of the death coincides with the big high school prom which the kids are all attending, making it convenient to borrow big ideas from movies like Carrie (1976) among others for the characters, situations and subplots.

Although it has some good qualities and was moderately successful when first released, the movie is bloodless in almost every respect, plus the murders are so murky and dimly lit. Jamie Lee Curtis, playing Kim, the older sister of the murdered young girl, is good as the popular student who wants to be elected prom queen. But she, unfortunatly, is not one of the four students targeted by the masked ax-weilding killer. In fact, she frequently becomes a suspect along with her father the school principal, as well as her younger brother Alex, the creepy school janitor, and the school bully. But the identity of the killer is fairly obvious. But so much time is spent on establishing red herrings that more than two-thirds of the movie pass before any of the killings begin. The production values are also good, but the film is starting to show its age.

Contents: Six killings, scant blood, one decapitation, Jamie Lee Curtis as prom queen, no nudity, no real suspense, no pace, lots of disco music and dancing, sit this one out.

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