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Movie Overview
Cast
• Brittany Snow
• Idris Elba
Director
• Nelson McCormick
MPAA Rating
PG-13 - for violence and terror, some sexual material, underage drinking, and language
Prom Night (2008)

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OFCS Rating: 6% Rotten
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D-
"The new Prom Night is insistently lifeless, which I think is worse than simply being awful. At least awful has some personality to it...the defanged slasher movement once again lays a rotten egg."  BrianOrndorf.com  Brian Orndorf

2/4
"A stalk-and-slash horror movie with precious few slashes, the PG-13-rated Prom Night is a tame, by-the-numbers affair without surprises or a point of any kind."  TheMovieBoy.com  Dustin Putman

D+
"The movie is bad in the usual ways and at approximately the usual level. I can't quite muster the energy to hate it."  EricDSnider.com  Eric D. Snider

1/5
"While it's certainly not as atrocious as the likes of "One Missed Call," it's certainly one of the worst of 2008, so far..."  Film Threat  Felix Vasquez Jr.

F
"An absolutely awful remake of an eighties teen slasher flick that wasn't any good to begin with...resolutely dumb, dull and predictable."  One Guy's Opinion  Frank Swietek

1/4
"It's a bore, even taking into account unintentional moments of humor that resulted in audience members jeering. This is a case study for Filmmaking Ineptitude 101."  ReelViews  James Berardinelli

1/5
"Tedious slasher flick is both gory and boring."  Common Sense  James Rocchi

B-
"For being such a raging cliche, I was surprised at the fact that I really didn't get that bored with it."  Film School Rejects  Kevin Carr

2/4
"Formulaic to the core."  TV Guide's Movie Guide  Maitland McDonagh

1.5/4
"The 1980 Prom Night was by no means a masterpiece, yet it begs the question of the remake: If you're going to make a slasher movie and you take out all the actual slashing, what else is left?"  Aisle Seat  Mike McGranaghan

0/4
"So soul-crushingly vapid it makes one hate high school all over again."  Slant Magazine  Nick Schager

1/5
"Outside of a brief clip from "Can't Hardly Wait," there is absolutely nothing in "Prom Night" that is even remotely scary."  eFilmCritic.com  Peter Sobczynski

1/5
"Often, fanboys offended by an unsolicited remake of an adored film say "Why don't they remake a bad movie?" Well, they have remade a bad movie, and the result is a worse movie."  eFilmCritic.com  Rob Gonsalves

1/5
"Amazingly bad. To call Prom Night a horror movie is to call chewing gum a cheeseburger."  Cinematical  Scott Weinberg

2/10
"It's tepid fare with a vacuous cast, particularly when compared with the previous version featuring Jamie Lee Curtis as the scream queen."  SSG Syndicate  Susan Granger

1/10
"Director Nelson McCormick has assembled a fairly valuable compendium of almost every kind of false scare known to exist."  Antagony & Ecstasy  Tim Brayton
OFCS Rating: 6% Rotten
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