Budget: $2.5 million CA
Directed By: Bruce Pittman
Wow this film was totally out of the blue, it is a bizarre sequel to the original Prom Night film. It very little to do with it in sequel terms though.
Taking cues from later additions to slasher flicks such as magical or other worldly forces, Prom Night 2 is straight up supernatural horror.
Taking cues from everything in that genre, from Evil Dead camera rushes and even sound effects in the score too. Too almost dream like killings and an end sequence that is ripped almost from Carrie.
The film Stars a slightly younger looking Micheal Ironside, though i'm sure the guys had the same amount of hair and scar tissue face since an infant. He puts in a great performance in here as a man with secrets (from everyone else not the viewer)
The films not rocket science and is cratered with plotholes the size of the moon. With said plot being about as thin on the ground as you could possibly get.
Having said that theres a weird kind of charm and all of the rest of the cast seem to be having a great time acting out their part. Nearly everyone is a dick in some way or another though and you don't really route for anyone other than may be feel a bit sorry for the main protagonist and her boyfriend, oh and possibly her bewildered father. There's some very graphical frontal nudity in a locker room scene too, my does Vicki have a banging body.
So we join Mary Lou after she mocks a priest in a confessional stand. Yeah she's a doozy this girl about as likable as triple bypass surgery. It's 1957 and she's had one guy take her to the prom but she cheats on him with another guy. She of course very pretty which nets her the prom queen status. Jealous the spurned boyfriend uses a prank smell bomb to get her back.
It goes wrong however and Mary Lou goes up like a dry xmas tree. Everyone just kind of watches screaming or crying rather than trying to help her. So Crispy Lou dies there ablaze on the stage.
Cut to the same school now in 1987, that's right its a roaring 80's baby. Vicki a student living with a over repressive god bod mother asks for some money to get a prom dress. Her nice father asks how much but her mother refuses as that's what holier than thou mothers do in these films.
So she looks in the school cellar? below ground storage room?
Whatever she somehow finds Mary Lou's shawl and bang that starts with her slowly getting taken over by a now demonic miss Lou. Her attitude slowly begins to change from sweet innocent girl to slutty killer. Slowly all her friends and acquaintances start falling prey to her evil side.
Somewhere in between she goes to see the new priest at the church, twist it was the boy who Mary Lou cheated with. Another twist! Is that Vicki's Boyfriends dad was the spurned lover, somehow friends the priest comes to warn him that he think's Mary Lou's soul has possessed someone and will try to kill them.
That's the main premise it plays out as predictable as expected but I liked it, it wasn't great and stole a lot from other things. It was ultimately fun though. There is a 3rd movie seems hard to get hold of though, will review it once I can!
THN awards HML: Prom Night 2 a strong 3 stars, watch it if you have the spare 95 or so minutes
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