Night of the Proms

It may be one of the few PG13 slasher movies, but one doesn't need blood to be a great horror movie. Unfortunately, whatever one does need, Prom Night doesn't have. I'll bitch more about stuff below the fold, but there will be spoilers.

Amazingly, the cops in this movie were mostly intelligent. As soon as they found events kicking off, they put out a car to protect one place, and checked out the other... and called in back up when they completely checked out the hotel. The only problem was that the detective didn't immediately call for more back up when he found an obvious situation that would have demanded calling in SWAT!

But this wasn't the main problem. Nor were the people who got killed. Yeah, they died (not that messily given the movie rating they were aiming for), but the script put them in stupid situations. Lisa, for some reason, ends up on a construction storey after going down one level... the hell? Next thing you'll know, the main villain can move around without any sound and anyone seeing him... then again that's not entirely new.

The direction was pretty terrible too. Oner shots that just spin around all over the place. Set ups that just make none of the characters worth looking at. Music that tries hard to reach out to the "what's happening" generation. The script barely makes sense and relies on so many co-incidences... then again, that isn't new too.

No, the really stupid moment, and which point I just gave up on the main star, was when the alarm was going off, everyone was leaving the hotel, and she said "I'm going back for my mother's wrap"... Nope. I'm sorry, but no freaking way am I buying that. I don't care how much sentimentality you need to invest in that wrap, but this is just such an obvious forcing of getting the main character in danger that that may as well just bludgeon the audience and skip to the continual running and attacking all horror movies like. Pathetic. Simply pathetic.

Skip this movie. Which isn't even horror, it's a wannabe slasher, but it's not that. I doubt anyone's really hanging out to see this in the first place, but feel free to completely avoid and not feel any guilt over it.

[END]