PROM NIGHT (1980) – Episode 268 – Decades of Horror 1980s
Decades of Horror | Horror News Radio
Release Date: 09/30/2024
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info_outline“The killer’s comin’! The killer’s gonna get you!” Ah, yes, the childhood game everyone played. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Crystal Cleveland, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they discover who wins and loses in Prom Night (1980).
Decades of Horror 1980s
Episode 268 – Prom Night (1980)
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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 previously.
- Directed by: Paul Lynch
- Writing Credits: William Gray (screenplay); Robert Guza Jr. (from a story by)
- Music by: Paul Zaza, Carl Zittrer
- Cinematography by: Robert C. New (director of photography)
- Selected Cast:
- Leslie Nielsen as Mr. Hammond
- Jamie Lee Curtis as Kimberly Hammond
- Casey Stevens as Nick McBride
- Anne-Marie Martin as Wendy Richards (as Eddie Benton)
- Antoinette Bower as Mrs. Hammond
- Michael Tough as Alex Hammond
- Robert A. Silverman as Mr. Sykes (as Robert Silverman)
- Pita Oliver as Vicki
- David Mucci as Lou Farmer
- Jeff Wincott as Drew Shinnick
- Mary Beth Rubens as Kelly Lynch (as Marybeth Rubens)
- George Touliatos as Lt. McBride
- Melanie Morse MacQuarrie as Henri-Anne
- David Gardner as Dr. Fairchild
- Joy Thompson as Jude Cunningham
- Sheldon Rybowski as Seymour ‘Slick’ Crane
- Rob Garrison as Sayer
- David Bolt as Weller
- Beth Amos as Housekeeper
- Sonia Zimmer as Melanie
- Sylvia Martin as Mrs. Cunningham
- Elizabeth M. Mason as Adele (as Liz Stalker-Mason)
- Pam Henry as Car Hop
- Ardon Bess as Teacher
- Lee Wildgen as Gang Member
- Brock Simpson as Young Nick
- Leslie Scott as Young Wendy
- Tammy Bourne as Young Robin
- Dean Bosacki as Young Alex
- Debbie Greenfield as Young Kim
- Karen Forbes as Young Jude
- Joyce Kite as Young Kelly
Prom Night (1980) is one of six horror films in which Jamie Lee Curtis appeared over a three-year span from 1978 to 1981 and the last covered by the Grue-Crew. Three John Carpenter films (Halloween, The Fog, Halloween II) and Prom Night are joined by Road Games and Terror Train.
Prom Night is not the best of Curtis’s 1978-1981 six-pack of horror movies (does that go without saying?), but is it the worst? Leslie Nielsen, soon to go through his transformation to a standout comedic actor, has little to do as Curtis’s character’s father and the school’s principal. There’s also the student body providing fodder for the killer, the creepy kids that set the whole thing in motion fifteen years earlier, and athe disco music and dancing. Don’t worry. The Grue Crew will give you the straight poop.
At the time of this writing, Prom Night is available to stream from Shudder, Amazon Prime, Peacock, Hoopla, Kanopy, Tubi, PlutoTV, and Freevee. It is also available on physical media as a Blu-ray formatted disc from Synapse Films.
Every two weeks, Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror 1980s podcast will cover another horror film from the 1980s. The next episode’s film, chosen by Chad, will be Ghost Story (1981), based on Peter Straub’s 1979 novel! The Grue-Crew has been wanting to do this one for a long time! If you heard them announce Without Warning (1980) on the podcast, they apologize for the change, but it is on the schedule for November. Be patient, fellow babies.
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