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CRITIC'S CORNER
'Prom Night' turns out to be a forgettable experience
By DNA Smith
"Prom Night" Running time: 88 minutes MPAA rating: PG-13
"Prom Night" is the latest in a long line of milquetoast horror movies that don't deliver much in screams or suspense.
The film stars Brittany Snow as "Donna," a highschool senior who witnessed the murder of her family three years earlier by a psychotic teacher named Fenton, who had a crush on her.
Now, three years later, the psycho has escaped from the looney bin and is out to kill Donna and anyone else he can get his hands on during Prom Night.
The deaths are few and predictable; and for a film that's less than 90 minutes long, it sure takes awhile to get to the stabbin'.
"Prom Night" is a prime example of why I hate Hollywood and PG-13 "horror" movies. First, it's another "reimagining" of a cult classic (in this case, the 1980 Jamie Lee Curtis version), which means they took the title and the basic premise and then changed everything else.
Second, because it's PG-13, you don't get to see what you expect to see from a teen horror flick: lots of T&A, a high body count and buckets and buckets of blood. There's no nudity, and you don't get to see any real violence. The result is a crashing bore of a movie.
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The whole point of making "Prom Night" is so that the studio can hype the heck out of it for a month, get a huge opening weekend gross from the 15-year-old crowd, and then wait three months so it can pimp the "unrated" DVD.
And it works every time.
So please ... if you hate this as much as I do, quit paying to see this kind of garbage, and maybe Hollywood will stop making it.
GRADE: F
(c) 2008 King Features Synd., Inc.
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