Prom Night

2008 Directed by Nelson McCormick

A Night To Die For.

Donna's senior prom is supposed to be the best night of her life, though a sadistic killer from her past has different plans for her and her friends.

Idris Elba Jessica Stroup James Ransone Brittany Snow Shawn Driscoll Dana Davis Brianne Davis Valeri Ross Scott Porter Kelly Blatz Collins Pennie Johnathon Schaech Ming-Na Wen Jessalyn Gilsig Kellan Lutz Mary Mara Allison Kyler Craig Susser Linden Ashby Jana Kramer Rachel Specter Lori Heuring Jay Phillips Joshua Leonard Jennie Vaughn Kevin Gould Tom Tarantini Charles Hirsch Brian Oblak Show All…

Alternative Titles

Szalagavató, Prom Night 1

drama horror crime

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Review by Tony the Terror😼🏳️‍🌈 👻 ★★½ 5

Continuing my revisiting of 00’s horror remakes, this is certainly one of the worst ones, especially the original theatrical cut. Luckily I watched the unrated cut so the slight increase in gore and onscreen kills makes it perfectly passable entertainment when you have bronchitis and you just want to lay in bed and watch something completely stupid.
It’s still not a good movie by any means. The story is so unoriginal it’s almost like a parody of itself, but hey it’s got a good cast that includes Brittany Snow and Idris Elba so that’s really all my sick ass needs for the time being!
Review by Hollie Horror ½ 22

During the opening credits a cover of The Zombie's "Time of the Season" plays and it's awful, it set the tone for the rest of this remake. It was a sign of the shitty film to come.
It's bad enough when you're already giving the audience predictable jump scares but it's even worse when you keep using the same set-up! How many times do you expect to get a startle out of non-horror fans when the character closes her medicine cabinet?! Was this just an excuse to show her anxiety-medicine?! I swear to god, I think this movie was sponsored by Klonopin as that was exactly what she was looking at every time she opened the cabinet AND she offered…
Review by aaron ★★★ 6

don't mind me i'm just getting in the halloween spirit early this year
Review by colin... @ camping in alaska ½ 1

Everybody gangster until American Accent Idris Elba shows up to the party.
Review by Lee McCoy ★★ 7

What a piece of shit of a movie. All the kills are cutaways. It literally has nothing to do with the original in terms of story or characters. Just rips off the name.
Brittany Snow is good but the rest is complete crap. And actually, I don’t have a problem with the killer in this. He actually would’ve been pretty effective had they given him some cool kills.
Bottom line. I still haven’t seen a great slasher movie that was PG-13.
Review by lola gumball ★

i know im clearly built different but i’d just survive? he’s 1 dumb man and im 1 smart bitch?
Review by Austin Cooper ★★★½ 2

My standards for films are obviously a few sea levels below everyone else’s.
Review by <Todd> ★ 2

" Michael is making me so darn mad. And on top of that I have killer cramps!" - Claire
From the writers of the Covenant, the director of Killing Kennedy and the producers that brought you such hits as Sniper 3, comes Prom Night, a reimagining of a very average movie from 1980 ( boxd.it/mpw2L ). This Brittany Snow vehicle is horrible. The dialogue for the teens is really bad and either the director doesn't know how to fix the dialogue or doesn't know how to make the bad dialogue over the top and funny (this movie is a good example of how under-appreciated Renny Harlin is in my opinion, he would have willed this script to 3 stars).
Idris…
Review by Sven Roth ½

I'm in the mood for bad movies today .. and oh god this was terrible.
Acting you can't even describe as amateurish. Horrible camera and lighting. Amazingly terrible music and cheap jump scares
Characters you can't like, no matter how much you try. A story full of cliches, boring as hell. And not a single entertaining kill. There isn't even blood in this movie .. what the fuck?
One of those movies where you are for the killer, that he gets everybody. But even the killer is boring as fuck.
This movie was so awful ... it fully met my expectations.
Review by Chadwin ★ 1

Tell me you’re a filmmaker who doesn’t understand how to build tension and has to rely on the same exact jump scare on repeat for 88 minutes without telling me you’re a filmmaker who doesn’t understand how to build tension and has to rely on the same exact jump scare on repeat for 88 minutes.
Director Nelson McCormick: “I’ll go first”
Review by bri 🌨 ★

this um... this was a film 😐 it was shot by a camera and had actors 😐
Review by Burrows ★½ 10

The original PROM NIGHT was no special night to remember, in my opinion. It was sloppy, and it was cheap-looking. But at least the production had a bit of a clue what it was trying to emulate. There were some good shot compositions, the thread binding the script together more or less worked, and even the bush-league performances by the kids playing the killer-killer game makes PROM NIGHT him along.
2008’s PROM NIGHT is more of a dance-party for millennials with the odd (odd as in ridiculous) knife attack thrown in. If horror films emulate a social strife, a universal terror, or at least rip off another film, this film seems devoid of any of that. Rather than any amount…

Recent reviews

Review by Andrew23S ★★★½

I always end up watching this movie at like 3AM, it’s never at a reasonable hour.
Review by chincade ★

This movie peaks when a lady drops the biggest plate I've ever seen.
Review by alexavan_ ½

...no words this was so bad
Review by chrissy ★½

i remember when this movie came out because brittany snow was in hairspray the year before. now watching this as a 22-year-old... why are there so many actors that i know in this.
as for the actual movie (with casting aside), it's everything i expected from 2000s horror movies and 80s remake so it was a fun watch.
Review by Emmalogan ½

what is it with men thinking that prom night is some really big thing for women
Review by grace ★★

marginally worse james ransome horror than the gay clown movie
Review by carlyalison317 ★★★

6/10
Review by Barton Roberts ★½

Do you think Idris Elba and James Ransone talked about how much they missed a well written script?
Review by Jairo Piz ½ 3

Words to describe the remake of Prom Night:
Unimaginative
Boring
Tasteless
Stale
Garbage
Awful
Shit...
You don't really hear a lot about this movie besides it just being I guess bad, but boyyyyy was this a real piece of shit.
First off this movie has no business being called "Prom Night" it has absolutely nothing to do with the original slasher from 1980. It just takes place on Prom Night, thats it. No familiar characters or story. I recently discussed how the Wrong Turn remake that just came out takes the approach of taking the simple original concept of the first and making it, it's own thing, but Prom Night is not that at all. It just takes a familiar…
Review by emily ★

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

her mom’s shawl was ugly and not worth going back for in an emergency evacuation & i think that was the most disturbing part of the movie to me.
also lisa deserved so much better.. she was the only character i was rooting for
Review by Lindsay ★

Of all the movies ever made, this is definitely one of them.
Review by Amanda Idiot ★

Forgetting to rate the bad films I've watched recently.
I expected campy fun but didn't get it
Lead is 🔥