Protraph Lack of good storyline.

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Sammy-Jo Cervantes There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

ryan-10075 Six years after a young girl falls from a second floor window during a game called "The Killer is Coming" goes unbelievably wrong deaths begin happening at Hamilton High. Can you figure out who the killer is? Is it the super creepy custodian Sykes? Or the macho hornball with the unibrow Lou? Influenced by better horror films such as John Carpenter's Halloween. Certainly not a brutal horror movie, but does not seem to rise above most of the early 80s slashers. Which is too bad, because it does star Scream Queen Jamie Lee Curtis and Leslie Nielsen. The film seems to stop just so you can watch Curtis do the "Disco Madness" on the dance floor which also horribly dates the film.

jadavix It's tough to rate "Prom Night" this late in the game. Horror flicks were already becoming de rigueur by 1980 - check out the ineffectual parody "Student Bodies" - so you can imagine how trite this material seems almost forty years later!Even if you've never seen a slasher movie, this stuff is familiar: a group of generally oversexed teens are bumped off one by one by a masked assailant, whose identity is revealed at the end of the film. This one also features a traumatic event in the prologue, with the assailant being someone who witnessed it and is out for vengeance, a la "I Know What You Did Last Summer".Don't let the familiarity of the material put you off, though. "Prom Night" is a very well made movie: the death scenes, particularly, make unnerving use of slow motion and camera angles that would have been truly disturbing back in 1980. Most slashers don't even bother with stuff like that: they just go for the gore.The ending also boasts not one, but two surprises: the last death is truly shocking, and the identity of the killer? I must confess I didn't pick it, even after having seen hundreds of these movies."Prom Night" covers VERY familiar ground, yes, but it does it with more style than 99% of its familiars.

BA_Harrison An unintentionally hilarious disco dancing scene featuring scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis is the improbable highlight of this early '80s slasher, which gives some idea of just how disappointing Prom Night is as a horror movie, the film achieving nowhere near the level of carefully crafted scares to be found in Curtis's classic genre outing Halloween, nor delivering the exploitative thrills of its far more gory contemporary Friday the 13th.Just about as formulaic and predictable as the genre gets, Prom Night sees a killer bumping off a group of oversexed teenagers who were responsible for the accidental death of a young girl six years earlier. Who could the murderer be? The weirdo working as a handyman at the high school? The disfigured sex offender originally blamed for the girl's death? The dead girl's father (played by Leslie Nielsen) Or someone else? Seriously, it's not hard to figure out who killer is, so the film doesn't even work as a whodunit. No atmosphere, very little splatter (a decapitation is the only decent death; the rest is too dark to make out), the barest minimum of T&A, a simple to solve mystery, and Jamie Lee grooving it up on the disco floor: hardly the stuff that nightmares are made of.4.5 out of 10, generously rounded up to 5 for IMDb.

TheBlueHairedLawyer In the Sixties, a group of children are playing a game in a decrepit and abandoned convent school when a younger kid attempts to join them (Robyn). The kids begin to bully Robyn, accidentally getting her killed, and they make a pact to keep it a secret. The cops on scene assume it was a pedophile and Robyn's murder is forgotten... but somebody saw the 'accident' and they want to avenge Robyn...Prom Night follows the lives of the group of children now in high school, each preparing for the supposed most romantic night of their lives, unknowing that a killer is lurking. Could it be Mister Sykes, the pervy school janitor? Could it be Luke, the school thug? Or is it someone much closer to home? The soundtrack was written by the man responsible for the soundtrack to the 1981 horror classic 'My Bloody Valentine', Paul Zaza. The acting was great, the plot suspenseful and a funny yet creepy movie, especially to watch with friends. The only scene that seemed to drag a bit was the scene where the popular girl is chased down by the killer, it got a little boring.