The story behind the 1980 Jamie Lee Curtis version of Prom Night is far more interesting than the one Screen Gems wouldn't let us see in advance of its release.
By Telly Davidson, FilmStew.com
The past few months have reconfirmed the fact that in between the end of Oscar qualifying season and summer tentpole time(a bracket moved up this year by Paramount's Iron Man to May 2nd), Hollywood filmmaking is generally on blotto pilot. Even such critically controversial films as Chapter 27 and Stop-Loss drop quickly off the hype-machine radar.An exception to this rule is this weekend's horror flick Prom Night, which has been nabbing billboards, top ten TV show commercials and this past weekend's number one spot at the box office with $20.8 million. All without benefit of preview screenings for film critics.
So, with all due respect, screw the remake and let us instead look back at the original Prom Night in all its plasmatic and fuzzy-filmed glory, and the strange daze in Canadian cinema responsible for it. Don't worry, there are no spoilers; the plot of Prom Night '08 has virtually no resemblance to the original, besides the obvious.
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