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PROM NIGHT

1980 CA HMDB
July 18, 1980

At a high school senior prom, a masked killer stalks four teenagers who were responsible for the accidental death of a classmate six years prior.

Directors

Paul Lynch

Cast

Leslie Nielsen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Stevens, Anne-Marie Martin, Antoinette Bower, Michael Tough, Robert A. Silverman, Pita Oliver, David Mucci, Jeff Wincott
Horror Thriller Mistero

REVIEWS (1)

MC

Marco Castellini

A group of children, during a game in an abandoned house, cause the death of a peer. The children say nothing to the police and the death is blamed on a local criminal. Some years later, on the day those same children celebrate their high school graduation, someone begins to kill them one by one... Classic slasher movie from the eighties heavily indebted to the genre's pioneer, namely "Halloween" by John Carpenter, from which "Ruba" even the protagonist, the always great (and beautiful) Jamie Lee Curtis. The situations are always the same: a masked killer who reveals his face only at the end, the "body-count" of the murdered youths, the protagonist who, as always, will be the sole survivor. The curiosity lies in the presence in the cast of Leslie Nielsen, this time engaged in an absolutely dramatic role. The film had a notable (and inexplicable) success in the USA and boasts four official sequels all unreleased in Italy, except for the second one.