Prom Night 1980 123movies

Watch: Prom Night 1980 123movies, Full Movie Online – For six long years, Hamilton High School seniors Kelly Lynch, Jude Cunningham, Wendy Richards, and Nick McBride have been hiding the truth of what happened to 10-year-old Robin Hammond the day her broken body was discovered near an abandoned convent. The foursome keeps secret of how they taunted Robin – backed her into a corner until, frightened, she stood on a window ledge – and fell to her death. Though an accident, the then-12-year-olds feared they would be held responsible and vowed never to tell. But someone else was there that day – watching, and now, that someone is ready to exact murderous revenge on prom night..
Plot: At a high school senior prom, a masked killer stalks four teenagers who were responsible for the accidental death of a classmate six years previously
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Ratings:

	5.3/10 Votes: 18,741
	48% | RottenTomatoes
	45/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 323 Popularity: 13.556 | TMDB

Reviews:

Killer moves on the dance floor.
Six years ago four kids make a pack to keep a secret, which involved the mysterious death of child Robin Hammond. They thought that were the only ones who knew what had happened, but some else witnessed it to. Now that person strings them along, to eventually plan their revenge during Prom night.

A real thank-you to the commercial success of “Halloween (1977)” and “Friday the 13th (1980), which saw the influx of slasher films and “Prom Night” was one of the first to step up. Too bad that we have here is an unspectacular so-so, if slick looking slasher effort that got caught labouring along with very little happening and providing us with corny school melodramatics. When it came to the crunch, most of the Prom Night sequences was about getting the groove on and listening to funky dory disco soundtrack. Oh it just makes you want to bogey; well it didn’t stop Jamie Lee Curtis from strutting her stuff. However when it came to the good stuff, I thought the novel deaths were soundly executed, and there’s a certain unpleasantness about them. When the black hooded killer (who’s quite fast on their feet and would make for a good shaker too) is tormenting and stalking the victims (from be it to the phone calls or hanging about in the shadowy corridors) there’s an ominous air to proceedings, which director Paul Lynch pulls off rather well. It’s just too bad that most of the time is used setting this all up with ineffective red herrings and below par, drawn out script. Too many loose ends creep in, even though the premise is quite slight and you can find yourself laughing at its unintentional goofiness and picking up on it predictability.

Robert New’s stunningly vivid camera movements are atmospherically airy and Paul Zaza and Carl Zittrer’s sorrowfully twisted musical score gets it cues right. The performances from the cast are acceptable with a likable Jamie Lee Curtis (earning her scream queen tag at the time) proves herself as an upcoming talent. Weak character, but well judged performance. Leslie Nielsen looks awkwardly distracted, and seems to duck off in a phone-in performance and George Touliatos gives the film some solidarity. Anne-Marie Martin is a delight as the scheming sexpot Wendy, David Mucci is perfect as the boorish brute Lou and Casey Stevens is modest as Curtis’ prom date Nick.

This post-Halloween slasher is familiar and slowly plotted, but its competent technical handling helps.

Disco Psycho
Take a dash of Brian de Palma’s “Carrie,” blend in a hint of John Carpenter’s “Halloween,” sprinkle in a healthy pinch of “Saturday Night Fever” and you may end up with a concoction very much like 1980’s “Prom Night,” a mildly effective thriller that just narrowly manages to get the job done. In this film, an ax-wielding maniac targets four high school students who had inadvertently caused the death of one of their friends six years before. One of the unlucky quartet, Nick, is the boyfriend of prom queen Kim, played by Jamie Lee Curtis; what a shame, then, that the anniversary of the tragedy coincides with the night of the big school bash…. Anyway, this film really is a mixed bag at best. It rarely goes far enough in terms of excitement and violence, is filled with false shocks and red herrings, and has a slow buildup that is barely paid off in the picture’s final third. With the exception of the plight of Wendy, the bitchiest of the four, whose pursuit by the killer throughout the school and in an underground garage IS quite suspenseful (probably because Wendy is the only one who lasts long enough to show any sign of fear!), and a bravura final five minutes that are memorably off the wall, the picture generates little in the way of thrills. (PERSONAL NOTE TO ASPIRING FILMMAKERS: If a character in a horror picture is not afraid, the audience won’t be either. Imagine the shower scene in “Psycho,” if “Mother” had merely killed Marion Crane while her back was to him. How less effective that scene would have been, without Janet Leigh’s classic scream and the fear that was so well conveyed! Sure, the scene would still have been suspenseful, but not nearly as memorable and harrowing. Fear is communicable, and without that identification on the part of the viewer, there are no scares; just buildup and butchery.) What’s worse, a side issue regarding Kim becoming aware of Nick’s involvement in her sister’s death is never resolved, and the talents of both Leslie Nielsen and Antoinette Bower (who will always be “Star Trek”‘s Sylvia the witch woman to me!) are squandered in teensy roles. Still, there are compensations. The picture looks great and is well acted by its mainly young cast, and the identity of the killer (virtually every character is suspect) will most likely come as a surprise; I felt sure that I had guessed it for a change, but was wrong, as usual. Director Paul Lynch has given his film some interesting touches also (love that slow dissolve into a blood-red punch bowl!). Thus, “Prom Night” isn’t TOO bad a teen/slasher flick; certainly better than some I’ve seen. If anything, the film demonstrates that disco music is good for something after all: It makes an impressive backdrop for watching a psycho go berserk!

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 32 min (92 min)
Budget 1500000
Revenue 14796236
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Director Paul Lynch
Writer William Gray, Robert Guza Jr.
Actors Leslie Nielsen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Stevens
Country Canada
Awards 2 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panavision Panaflex
Laboratory Medallion Film Laboratories, Toronto, Canada
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm