I was never fussed on the Prom .

#26 - Prom Night - 1980

"It's not who you go with, honey. It's who takes you home."
-- Wendy

Due to unforeseen circumstances there's going to be 2 fairly quick updates today. First up is a flick I caught yesterday afternoon with Jamie Lee Curtis (Who obviously after the success of 'Halloween' probably got offered a ton of films like this, why she picked this particular one I don't know. But hey, a girl needs to pay the rent).

The film came about in an early time when the Slasher film wasn't quite as established as it went on too become. But you know that pitch meetings went something like "It's Halloween...but in a School!" Obviously a fact further cemented by the presence of Miss Curtis.

On the whole it's a largely average film. There's a prologue where some kids are messing around and one of them is killed, with the others deciding not to tell anyone. Them some years later all those involved are being stalked and killed off one by one. All on Prom Night.

You could probably argue that this film, and the look of the Killer owe more to Italian Giallo films rather anything than anything specifically American. But sprinkling that black masked killer aesthetic with something so resolutely American is about the only thing the of note the film really does. It also actually hides the identity of the Killer fairly well, and further viewings neatly reveal little clues that have been left behind.

Also of note is Leslie Nielsen, before he was to find fame as Lt Frank Drebin playing Jamie Lee's father and school principal. He also shakes some fairly embarrassing dance moves.

It's worth seeing just for that.