ManiakJiggy This is How Movies Should Be Made

Manthast Absolutely amazing

SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Sam Panico Originally entitled The Haunting of Hamilton High, this film is rife with horror trivia, such as lockers that look exactly like A Nightmare on Elm Street, allusions to Carrie and a character who references The Exorcist. Several characters are named after famous horror folks, too.Back in 1957, Mary Lou Maloney goes to confession and doesn't follow the rules at all. She's disobeyed her parents, used the Lord's name in vain and had sex with many boys - and she loved every minute of it. Then, she leaves her number for the priest.At the prom that night, her boyfriend Billy (soon to be played by Michael Ironside) gives her a ring, but she just tells him to get her some punch. That's so she can have sex with Buddy Cooper. They get discovered by Billy, who grabs a stink bomb and throws at her when she gets crowned prom queen, ala Carrie. Her dress goes up in flames and she dies in front of the entire class.In 1987, thirty years later, Vicki Carpenter is having a rough time getting ready for the prom. Her mother refuses to allow her to buy a new dress and doesn't approve of her boyfriend. She searches the school for a dress in the prop room and finds Mary Lou's doomed gown. It starts claiming victims right away, like Vicki's best friend Jess, who is killed by a beam from the tiara. Seeing as how she was despondent about being jilted while pregnant, everyone figures her death was just a suicide.Vicki has nightmares every night and confides in her priest, who ends up being Buddy. He believes Mary Lou may be back, a fact that's confirmed when a Bible bursts into flames at her grave. He tries to warn Billy, who is not the principal and the father of Vicki's boyfriend Craig.Vicki is at war with Kelly Hennelotter (Terri Hawkes, Killer Party), the meanest girl in school. Mary Lou takes over Vicki's body at a detention caused by a fight between the two girls. She goes to confession at Buddy's church and unleashes a torrent of obscenities before stabbing him in the face with a crucifix.Mary Lou makes over Vicki to be a 50's girl just like she was. When Monica tries to get to the bottom of everything, she's killed by being crushed inside a locker.Mary Lou seduces Craig, something that the virginal Vicki would never do. His father rescues him just as Mary Lou reveals herself. He knocks out his son once he ensures that he is safe and digs up Mary Lou's grave. Inside? Buddy's dead body.Then it gets really crazy. Mary Lou takes Vicki home and makes out with her father and then tosses her mother through a door.At the prom, evil girl Kelly gives Josh, the geeky horror movie fan, a blowjob in order to win the prom queen crown. Too bad for Josh, as Mary Lou electrocutes the poor geek and switches the outcome. As she takes the stage, Billy shoots her. That's when all hell breaks loose, as Mary Lou turns into a charred corpse and tries to bring Craig into hell. His father saves him at the last minute by returning Mary Lou'd crown and kissing her.That's not the real ending, though. It turns out that Mary Lou is now inside the principal and he drives off with his son and Vicki!I wasn't expecting much from this movie, yet it more than entertained me. It surprised me with its sheer lewdness and language in the confession scene. There haven't been many horror movies with a villain that doesn't punish those that have sex but wants more of it.

SnoopyStyle In 1957 Hamilton High, Mary Lou Maloney is a sexually aggressive girl who dump her stiff boyfriend Billy Nordham at prom after making out with another guy. He's hurt and sets off a stink bomb as Mary Lou is crowned prom queen. Her dress is set on fire and she dies a horrible death. In the present, Vicki Carpenter (Wendy Lyon) is a sweet girl suffering under her strict religious mother. Her boyfriend Craig Nordham is the son of principal Billy Nordham (Michael Ironside). Vicky finds Mary Lou's cursed crown. Her friend Jess releases the spirit when she tries to take the crown apart. She is hung to death by the spirit and it is declared it a suicide.There is a bit of comedy both intentional and unintentional. The 80s style is insane and the movie has to also have 50s style. For lower level 80s horrors, this is one of my favorites. I love the locker room scene. It is shoot perfectly. Every cut has something terrific. Then it ends in such a memorable way. The movie is an amalgam of some great horrors like Carrie. Sometimes the horror B-movie seams are showing but I do love the locker room.

wdharvey11 but, it's a REALLY bad "Carrie" knock-off......No junk words here....I saw, even in the original (I watched both movies tonight) the similarities between "Carrie" and both of these movies. As close as the Jamie Lee Curtis movie was, without being so much a bad knock off, this one was even WORSE. I bought this movie at WalMart in a "10 Big Box of Horror" for $5. I decided I wasn't going to lose because I'd seen 2 of the 10 anyway...so, I decided to get it as my own stocking stuffer. But, being a Stephen King fan, I never realized how much of a knock off this and the first on was back when I was a kid, seeing the first on in the theater because Ms. Curtis was in "Halloween"..I LOVED her!

AaronCapenBanner Loose sequel to "Prom Night" only uses the same high school, Hamilton High, where another horror takes place as the vengeful spirit of Mary Lou Maloney, who was accidentally killed at her senior prom thirty years previous, is unleashed from a trunk(?!) by Vicki Carpenter(Wendy Lyon) who is dating the son of principal Bill Nordham,(played by Michael Ironside) who, just by one of those standard movie coincidences, happens to be Mary Lou's old boyfriend that she blames for her fiery death. So evil Mary Lou possesses poor Vicki to destroy Bill, and be crowned senior prom queen, no matter who has to die...Typically violent and idiotic horror exploitation is just another illogical and crass film where the supernatural protagonist has all kinds of superpowers because the script says they do, with no regard to plausibility or coherence, with the ending being the final insult.