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Prom Night
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Prom Night reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 17 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
4.4 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 4.4 (out of 10) based on 147 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

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

Caroline S. gave it a10:
Great movie! A little predictable, but has surprising twists.

Lary G. gave it a10:
It was the best jumpy movie ever.

Mia gave it a10:
I just saw this movie and I loved it, it's one of my favorites.

Bob B. gave it a0:
Lack of excitement. No suspense or blood. It wouldn't of even made my 2 year old cousin scared. Her name is bob.

Lawrence W. gave it a10:
I thought it was better then the first one with Jamie Lee Curtis. I love Britney snow action i think that all the actors and actress did good. but talk about jumping. mass ppl say its bad but i really think when you see the first one then this one you see that this one is way better any way i woulds give it a ten. some ppl a crazy to give it a 1,2,3,4,5,6,7, it way better than that. i love that movie im going to see it again yay!

Annie gave it a6:
It wasn't that bad. A lot of jumpy stuff but okay.

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