Prom Night proves once again that it's not sufficient to simply rip-off a successful movie formula — you've got to add something to it, even if it's simply coming up with ingenious new ways of disposing of your victims.

| Jul 26, 2022

While it endeavors to be genuinely scary, it rarely succeeds, only becoming a cult B-movie due to boundary-pushing violence, which has since been tremendously surpassed.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Sep 7, 2020

[Leslie Nielsen and Jamie Lee Curtis] perform well. In fact, Curtis (an alumna of Halloween and The Fog, and soon to be seen in Terror Train) is very good... it would be great to watch her perform in a riproaring comedy or a searing drama.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 27, 2020

Negatives aside, the admirable pacing enhances the run-of-the-mill narrative to create a solid slasher with a handful of interesting moments from creative camerawork to the icing-on-the-cake subtle score that intensifies the moment it accompanies.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 26, 2019

As I came to the movie for the first time in a very recent marathon of classic horror pictures, I was baffled, aghast and left overcome with insurmountable eye-rolls. But I was never bored.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 7, 2016

A mixed bag of delights, but Prom Night retains appeal through its unusual tone and care with motivation, adding just a hint of real-world torment to ground the masked killer shenanigans.

| Original Score: B | Sep 27, 2014

A special movie. Not by any means a great one; only barely and inconsistently a good one.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 9, 2013

Pop Culture Rule No. 1: Wait long enough and even the stinkiest trash gets recycled into art.

| Sep 1, 2009

Unusually incompetent from start to finish...

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 25, 2008

By the time the killer fully emerges from the shadows, clad head to toe in black, leaping around like some Filipino ripoff of "Spider-Man 3," the game is pretty much lost.

| Original Score: D | Apr 12, 2008

The prom setting does little except provide the opportunity for a ridiculous disco interlude, while the killings are nasty rather than scary or effective and the outcome eminently guessable.

| Apr 10, 2008

You'll just have to enjoy the scenes of Curtis disco-dancing and wonderful moments such as when the severed head of a victim rolls across the dance floor.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 10, 2008

Director Paul Lynch seems to capture the spirit of the genre here, but spends a little too much time setting up each murder, thus eliminating some suspense.

| Apr 10, 2008

If you forget motivation, the visual trick-or-treat of slow revenge is entertaining enough.

| Jun 24, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 5, 2005

Now this is a horror classic!

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 11, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 4, 2005

Why do people go to these movies?

Full Review | Original Score: 0.5/4 | Oct 23, 2004

Because it's quite easy to figure out the killer's identity by simply keeping track of who is off screen a lot, much of the movie is just vamping for time.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 30, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 1, 2002