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Prom Night (2008)

Director: Nelson McCormick

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From Time Out London

By far the worst ‘slasher movie’ remake to date, replaying all the clichés, but delivering none of the guilty pleasures. The 1980 original had ‘scream queen’ Jamie Lee Curtis, some disco dancing, an axe-wielding psycho in a black ski mask, and sundry gory deaths. TV director Nelson McCormick’s tedious ‘re-imagining’ has Brittany Snow (wasted here), Britney Spears’ ‘Piece of Me’, a knife-wielding killer in a baseball cap, a string of bloodless, off-screen deaths and an inexplicably harsh 15 certificate.

Three years after high school teacher Richard Fenton became obsessed with student Donna Keppel (Snow), then slaughtered her whole family, she is off the medication and excited about her senior prom. But Fenton has escaped from the asylum and Detective Winn (Idris Elba) knows he’ll kill anyone who stands between him and the object of his twisted affections. But frankly, who cares? The characters could be dispatched in any order, and it wouldn’t make an iota of difference.

Author: Nigel Floyd 2008-06-03 12:28:48

Time Out London Issue 1972, 4 – 10 June 2008


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  • ste said...
    Posted on Jun 30 2008 14:32 a can of tango then lol
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  • x said...
    Posted on Jun 30 2008 14:32 noooo !!! i dnt like coke !!!
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  • ste said...
    Posted on Jun 30 2008 14:31 a can of coke
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  • x said...
    Posted on Jun 30 2008 14:30 wa ya getin me 4 me bifday ste lmao
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  • ste said...
    Posted on Jun 30 2008 14:29 the film is shit
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    Posted on Jun 30 2008 14:28 tasherr !!!! tellll me ( if ur on lol) xx
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  • Tasher :):)! said...
    Posted on Jun 27 2008 14:16 Hey everybody :):)
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  • kath said...
    Posted on Jun 27 2008 12:04 cba anymore ill go on in it
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    Posted on Jun 27 2008 12:02 hi
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  • kath said...
    Posted on Jun 27 2008 12:01 yey fankuu !!
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  • Tasher :):)! said...
    Posted on Jun 27 2008 11:56 every one that we know is going this year exsept della lols
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    Posted on Jun 27 2008 11:53 hu is every1
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  • Tasher :):)! said...
    Posted on Jun 27 2008 11:51 everyone this yer and i told kerry :):)
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