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Prom Night (2008)

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Prom Night (2008) is ranked overall as out of 4 stars

Overall Rating:1.2263

Avg Critic Score:1.0794

Prom Night (2008) Rank 1 Reviews

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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (Ken Hanke)

It's a PG-13 slasher picture. This means the results are vaguely on par with having sex through a blanket. ...read the complete Prom Night movie review at Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (Ken Hanke)

ReelzChannel (Thomas Leupp)

Legendary author Stephen King once described his approach to horror as (and I'm paraphrasing): "If I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I Perky, pretty...and doomed!cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out." A good tip for any ...read the complete Prom Night movie review at ReelzChannel (Thomas Leupp)

EricDSnider.com (Eric D. Snider)

The movie is bad in the usual ways and at approximately the usual level. I can't quite muster the energy to hate it. ...read the complete Prom Night movie review at EricDSnider.com (Eric D. Snider)

Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) (Linda Cook)

This date is a dud. ...read the complete Prom Night movie review at Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) (Linda Cook)

RopeofSilicon (Brad Brevet)

Based on the 1980 horror starring Scream Queen Jamie Lee Curtis, the Prom Night remake changes the story up a bit and really offers nothing more than a TON of cheap scares built around a rather ridiculous story. Screen cutie, the 22-year-old Brittany ...read the complete Prom Night movie review at RopeofSilicon (Brad Brevet)

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Bucket Reviews (Danny Baldwin)

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Digital Retribution

I should've been wary of a remake anyway, and a remake of an eighties slasher at the cycle's most cretinous at that. But alarm bells should've really sounded when Nelson McCormick's Prom Night redux was awarded a PG-13 certification in the States, a ...read the complete Prom Night movie review at Digital Retribution

Toronto Star (Peter Howell)

There's absolutely zippo to fear about this movie, unless you're the kind of person who jumps when formula bogeymen do exactly what you'd expect them to do. ...read the complete Prom Night movie review at Toronto Star (Peter Howell)

Reel.com

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Preview Family Movie Review

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

There ought to be a rule, stashed in the Screen Actor's Guild bylaws, that every actor cast as a villain in a slasher film has to watch "Psycho" and write a paper on Anthony Perkins. "Psycho Killers With Character: The Tony Perkins Way." Johnathan ...read the complete Prom Night movie review at Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

LarsenOnFilm (Josh Larsen)

File Prom Night with those thrillers that make you root for the killer rather than the victims, so annoying and vacuous are the picture's stars ...read the complete Prom Night movie review at LarsenOnFilm (Josh Larsen)

The Age

Inept, unintentionally funny stab-the-teens schlocker in which you end up cheering-on the bad guy as he works his way through the cast with his carving knife. The film is full of creeping shadows, dark rooms and people asking "where's so-and-so ...read the complete Prom Night movie review at The Age

Hollywood.com (Mark Burger)

Poor Donna Keppel (Brittany Snow). Some years back, her parents and brother were slaughtered by Richard Fenton (Jonathan Schaech), a teacher who had developed a psychotic fixation on her. Richard went to an insane asylum, but he broke out and now heâ��s ...read the complete Prom Night movie review at Hollywood.com (Mark Burger)

Arrow in the Head ("The Arrow")

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San Antonio Express-News (Larry Ratliff)

Prom Night boils down to an obsessed maniac (Johnathon Schaech) on the loose with a knife and a disappointingly routine, matter-of-fact plot that just doesn't cut it. ...read the complete Prom Night movie review at San Antonio Express-News (Larry Ratliff)

ReelViews (James Berardinelli)

It's a bore, even taking into account unintentional moments of humor that resulted in audience members jeering. This is a case study for Filmmaking Ineptitude 101. ...read the complete Prom Night movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)

St. Paul Pioneer Press (Chris Hewitt (St. Paul))

What do you call a slasher movie with no slashing? Dull, for starters. ...read the complete Prom Night movie review at St. Paul Pioneer Press (Chris Hewitt (St. Paul))

filmcritic.com (Jason Morgan)

We're one box office weekend away from a remake of Leprechaun. ...read the complete Prom Night movie review at filmcritic.com (Jason Morgan)

Christian Spotlight on the Movies

I wholeheartedly do not recommend this movie. It is morally filthy and an inaccurate portrayal of youth. Not only does it fail as a loose remake, it completely fails as a horror movie. Most of the audience laughed at the scary moments, many spoke of how ...read the complete Prom Night movie review at Christian Spotlight on the Movies

commonsensemedia.org (James Rocchi)

Tedious slasher flick is both gory and boring. ...read the complete Prom Night movie review at commonsensemedia.org (James Rocchi)

New York Times (Jeannette Catsoulis)

For a film about erotomania, Prom Night is a curiously flaccid affair. ...read the complete Prom Night movie review at New York Times (Jeannette Catsoulis)

Film Threat (Felix Vasquez Jr.)

While it's certainly not as atrocious as the likes of "One Missed Call," it's certainly one of the worst of 2008, so far... ...read the complete Prom Night movie review at Film Threat (Felix Vasquez Jr.)

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SSG Syndicate (Susan Granger)

It's tepid fare with a vacuous cast, particularly when compared with the previous version featuring Jamie Lee Curtis as the scream queen. ...read the complete Prom Night movie review at SSG Syndicate (Susan Granger)

Sacramento News & Review (Jim Lane)

Every cheap-scare trick in the genre is deployed, but so feebly that not one of them works. ...read the complete Prom Night movie review at Sacramento News & Review (Jim Lane)

FilmJudge (David Mercier)

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Cinematical (Scott Weinberg)

Amazingly bad. To call Prom Night a horror movie is to call chewing gum a cheeseburger. ...read the complete Prom Night movie review at Cinematical (Scott Weinberg)

Entertainment Weekly (Clark Collis)

There's no need to wear a corsage to Prom Night. And leaving your higher brain functions at home might be a good idea, too. ...read the complete Prom Night movie review at Entertainment Weekly (Clark Collis)

Bangor Daily News (Maine) (Christopher Smith)

Look. Let's just toss some pig's blood on this baby and call it a day. ...read the complete Prom Night movie review at Bangor Daily News (Maine) (Christopher Smith)

efilmcritic.com (Peter Sobczynski)

Outside of a brief clip from "Can't Hardly Wait," there is absolutely nothing in "Prom Night" that is even remotely scary. ...read the complete Prom Night movie review at efilmcritic.com (Peter Sobczynski)

eFilmCritic.com (Rob Gonsalves)

Often, fanboys offended by an unsolicited remake of an adored film say "Why don't they remake a bad movie?" Well, they have remade a bad movie, and the result is a worse movie. ...read the complete Prom Night movie review at eFilmCritic.com (Rob Gonsalves)

eFilmCritic.com (Rob Gonsalves)

Just last month we had "Funny Games," Michael Hanekeâ��s shot-for-shot remake of his own 1997 Austrian thriller. Aside from the cast and a few tiny details, the remake duplicated the original film exactly. On the other end of the spectrum, we now have ...read the complete Prom Night movie review at eFilmCritic.com (Rob Gonsalves)

efilmcritic.com (Peter Sobczynski)

Has it really come to this? Has Hollywood run so completely dry of ideas that they are now reduced to remaking the likes of â��Prom Nightâ��? Yeah, I know that remaking the slasher movie classics of a couple of decades ago is all the rage but at least wit ...read the complete Prom Night movie review at efilmcritic.com (Peter Sobczynski)

Orlando Sentinel (Roger Moore)

Prom night is a night you're supposed to treasure, or at least remember 'forever.' This one is forgotten by the time you throw your empty popcorn bucket into the trash cans conveniently located near the exits on your way out. ...read the complete Prom Night movie review at Orlando Sentinel (Roger Moore)

Filmjerk.com (Brian Orndorf)

After surviving the slaughter of her family three years back, Donna (Brittany Snow, â��Hairsprayâ��) has finally managed to secure a happy life, now enjoying the night of her high school prom. As Donna arrives at the hotel with great anticipation, surroun ...read the complete Prom Night movie review at Filmjerk.com (Brian Orndorf)

MovieMaze.de (Markus Ostertag)

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Dread Central (Nomad)

Prom Night is poorly written, ill conceived, and executed with the excitement of a children's cough medicine commercial. ...read the complete Prom Night movie review at Dread Central (Nomad)

MSNBC (Alonso Duralde)

For the talent behind the 2008 remake to have created a movie that�s completely different and yet even stupider than the original has to represent some kind of achievement. ...read the complete Prom Night movie review at MSNBC (Alonso Duralde)

Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune

There ought to be a rule, stashed in the Screen Actor's Guild bylaws, that every actor cast as a villain in a slasher film has to watch "Psycho" and write a paper on Anthony Perkins. "Psycho Killers with Character: The Tony Perkins Way." Johnathan ...read the complete Prom Night movie review at Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune

Newsday

There ought to be a rule, stashed in the Screen Actor's Guild bylaws, that every actor cast as a villain in a slasher film has to watch "Psycho" and write a paper on Anthony ...read the complete Prom Night movie review at Newsday

Richmond Times-Dispatch

Horror movies invite commentary from the back rows. At a screening of "Prom Night" yesterday afternoon, the constant jokes from a group of young women in the back were unusually funny. Maybe that's because the target of their barbs was so big, so ...read the complete Prom Night movie review at Richmond Times-Dispatch

Time Out Chicago (Joshua Rothkopf)

Bearing scant relation to the 1980 Jamie Lee Curtis slasher of the same name but a huge resemblance to todayâ��s generic horror blandfests, Prom Night features a bunch of kids running around a hotel screaming. Donna (the vapid Snow), having survived a ...read the complete Prom Night movie review at Time Out Chicago (Joshua Rothkopf)

Boston Globe (Wesley Morris)

There's no suspense or perversity. You don't care who lives or who dies -- just please make it soon. ...read the complete Prom Night movie review at Boston Globe (Wesley Morris)

The Onion A.V. Club

How do you like your abysmal? Inept but distinctive, with lots of gratuitous violence and T&A, and Leslie Nielsen in a serious role? Or slick but perfunctory, with no imagination and all the nasty bits scrubbed for mass consumption? That's the difference ...read the complete Prom Night movie review at The Onion A.V. Club

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