Prom Night is a 1980 Canadian horror film starring Leslie Nielsen and Jamie Lee Curtis, directed by Paul Lynch. The original music score is composed by Paul Zaza and Carl Zittrer. Jeff Wilson did the movie's storyboards. The remake to the movie is scheduled to be released in 2007. The film also spawned three sequels.
| Prom Night | |
|---|---|
| File:PromNightDVD.jpg DVD cover for Prom Night | |
| Directed by | Paul Lynch |
| Written by | William Gray Robert Guza Jr. |
| Produced by | Peter R. Simpson Richard Simpson |
| Starring | Leslie Nielsen Jamie Lee Curtis Casey Stevens Anne-Marie Martin David Gardner Melanie Morse |
| Cinematography | Robert C. New |
| Edited by | Brian Ravok |
| Music by | Paul Zaza Carl Zittrer |
| Distributed by | Anchor Bay Entertainment |
Release dates | July 18, 1980 |
Running time | 87 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | CAD$1,600,000 (estimated) |
Tagline: If you're not back by midnight...you won't be coming home.
Plot summary
In 1974, a little girl is accidentally killed playing a game with other kids in an old deserted schoolhouse. The kids swear to silence, but someone saw them do it. Six years later, the same kids are anticipating the senior prom and the night of their life. However, that shadow from the trees - the one who saw their deed - has chosen this night to seek revenge. It is going to be a prom no one will forget.
Cast
- Leslie Nielsen as Mr. Hammond
- Jamie Lee Curtis as Kim Hammond
- Casey Stevens as Nick McBride
- Anne-Marie Martin as Wendy Richards (as Eddie Benton)
- Antoinette Bower as Mrs. 'Vi' Hammond
- Michael Tough as Alex Hammond
- Robert A. Silverman as Mr. Sykes
- Pita Oliver as Vicki
- David Mucci as Lou Farmer
- Jeff Wincott as Drew
- Mary Beth Rubens as Kelly
- George Touliatos as Lt. McBride
- Melanie Morse as Henri-Anne
- David Gardner as Dr. Fairchild
- Joy Thompson as Jude Cunningham
- Brock Simpson as Young Nick
Sequels & Original
Soundtrack
Composer(s):
- Carl Zittrer
- Paul Zaza
- All Is Gone - Blue Bazar
- Prom Night (Version 1)
- Changes
- Dancing In The Moonlight
- Fade to Black - Gordean Simpson
- All Is Gone (Instrumental) - Blue Bazar
- Time to Turn Around
- Love Me Till I Die
- Prom Night (Version 2)
- Forever - Blue Bazar
Trivia
- The line, "It's not who you come with, it's who takes you home," appears in all the Prom Night movies.
- Brock Simpson is the only actor who appeared in all four Prom Night movies.
- Hamilton High is the one setting that all off the Prom Night movies have in common.
- The high school where Prom Night is filmed is Don Mills Collegiate Institute in Toronto, Canada.
- Additional Scenes
- NBC added additional footage during the initial broadcast. The additional footage included a scene with Leslie Nielsen chopping firewood with the same axe later used by the killer.
- Also in the TV version there was a scene with Jamie Lee and her friends passing a note in class.
Quotes
- Kim Hammond: You seem a little anxious, Wendy. By the way, who are going with tonight?
- Wendy Richards: It's not who you go with, honey. It's who takes you home.
Nominations
- 1981 Genie Awards
- Best Achievement in Film Editing - Brian Ravok
- Best Performance by a Foreign Actress - Jamie Lee Curtis
Remake
According to Variety, The Grudge scribe Stephen Susco is writing horror movie Prom Night for Neal Moritz's Original Film at Sony. Production is slated to begin early next year. The movie is set to star new commer Camilla Belle (Kelly), Stephanie Flores (Kim Hammond), Rachel McAdams (Mrs. Cunningham), Rachel Gomez (Jude), special appearences by Jamie Lee Curtis (Ms. "Vi" Hammond), and Leslie Nelson (Mr. Hammond) Susco wrote Sony's American remake of the Japanese motion picture Ju-On ("The Grudge"), produced by Sam Raimi and starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, which opens October 22nd. He also adapted the Jack Ketchum horror novel "Red," with Lucky McKee directing the pic for Circle of Confusion at United Artists, and wrote the remake of the hit Quebecois horror pic Sur le Seuil ("Evil Words"), which Vertigo Entertainment is producing for Dimension. The movie is being produced by HBO's television series creators, "Creep Tonite", Dakota A. Thomas, Kaitlin Bartley, and Alex Avila. The movie is set to be realeased sometime in 2007.
- This low-budget, tongue-in-cheek horror film of the slasher genre -- which had recently been popularized by Halloween (1978) -- stars that film's lead, Jamie Lee Curtis. Stephanie Flores as Kim Hammond, a prom queen who becomes a scream queen. Six years ago, a little girl was taunted by four classmates and fell to her death from an abandoned schoolhouse. The quartet of kids promised to keep their complicity in the accident a secret. Now it's their prom night and they've got the jitters because they have recently been receiving phone calls and notes from an ominous, unknown individual claiming to have witnessed the girl's death and vowing revenge. At the prom, the four become fatal victims one by one of a mysterious, axe-wielding, masked, and hooded stalker. The many possibilities of the murderer's identity include Kim, who is the little dead girl's sister, her school-principal father (Leslie Nielsen), or her disc-jockey brother, Alex.
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