Prom Night

"If you're not back by midnight...You won't be coming home!"

1980 1h 33m EN

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★5.7TMDB · 512

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At a high school senior prom, a masked killer stalks four teenagers who were responsible for the accidental death of a classmate six years prior.

“If you're not back by midnight...You won't be coming home!”

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Cast

Leslie Nielsen
Mr. Hammond
Jamie Lee Curtis
Kimberly Hammond
Casey Stevens
Nick McBride
Anne-Marie Martin
Wendy Richards
Antoinette Bower
Mrs. Hammond
Michael Tough
Alex Hammond
Robert A. Silverman
Mr. Sykes
Pita Oliver
Vicki

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Paul Lynch
Writers: William Gray, Jeff Wilson, Dave Ross
Languages: English
Countries: Canada

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1 / 8

MONEY

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Shot for just $1.5M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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2 / 8

MONEY

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Made its money back 9.9× over at the box office.

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3 / 8

ERA

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46 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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4 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Prom Night Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Paul Lynch, shot by Robert C. New. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Paul Zaza. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Leslie Nielsen and Jamie Lee Curtis and Casey Stevens carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

AWARDS

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Marketing tagline: "If you're not back by midnight...You won't be coming home!".

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Paul Lynch directs. Robert C. New behind the camera. Paul Zaza scores. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in Canada. Dialogue in English.

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1Shot for just $1.5M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
2Made its money back 9.9× over at the box office.
346 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
4Part of the "Prom Night Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5Directed by Paul Lynch, shot by Robert C. New. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Paul Zaza. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Leslie Nielsen and Jamie Lee Curtis and Casey Stevens carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "If you're not back by midnight...You won't be coming home!".
9IMDB entry: tt0081383 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Classified under 16 themes, including "high school", "dancing", "dance", "child murder".
11Released under 17 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Robert C. New
Original score: Paul Zaza
Makeup / hair: Kathleen Mifsud
Sound: Gary C. Bourgeois
Stunt coordinator: Terry Martin
Runtime: 93 min · 1h 33m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $1,500,000
Box office: $14,796,236
Return: 986% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Prom Night (1980)

Part of

Prom Night Collection

A slasher film series premised on malevolent forces inflicting suffering on prom night.

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Wuchak2018-11-04
★ 6/10
Quality slasher from 1980 with Jamie Lee Curtis Six years after a girl is accidently killed near Lake Erie in the Cleveland area, each of the offenders gets picked off on prom night by an unknown killer. Leslie Nielsen plays the principal of the school and father of the girl who died. “Prom Night” (1980) combines elements of “Carrie” (1976), “Halloween” (1978) and “Saturday Night Fever” (1977). It contains the prom set-up & conniving students of the first one, the slasher killer & Jamie Lee Curtis of the second and the disco dancing of the third. The emphasis of a group of teens in high school is reminiscent of the later “Christine” (1983). The movie debuted 2.5 months after “Friday the 13th” and less than 21 months after “Halloween.” While it’s the least of these as far as polished filmmaking goes, it’s not far off and scores better on the female front than all of them except “Friday the 13th.” It’s basically a coming-of-age flick focusing on high school in the Great Lakes region with the threat of a masked assailant. There are no less than four possible suspects and I was unable to guess the slayer. The film runs 1 hour, 32 minutes and was shot in the Toronto area (Richmond Hill, St. James Cemetery, Scarborough Bluffs and Don Mills Collegiate Institute). GRADE: B-

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