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- 1987
- R
- Samuel Goldwyn Company
- 1 h 37 m
- 1987
- R
- Samuel Goldwyn Company
- 1 h 37 m
Summary 30 years after her accidental death at her 1957 senior prom, the tortured spirit of prom queen Mary Lou Maloney is back to get her revenge.
Directed By: Bruce Pittman
Written By: Ron Oliver
- 1987
- R
- Samuel Goldwyn Company
- 1 h 37 m
- 1987
- R
- Samuel Goldwyn Company
- 1 h 37 m
Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II
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7.1
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Summary 30 years after her accidental death at her 1957 senior prom, the tortured spirit of prom queen Mary Lou Maloney is back to get her revenge.
Directed By: Bruce Pittman
Written By: Ron Oliver
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
48
40% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
20% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
40% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
48
40% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
20% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
40% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II may be derivative, but for the most part it's clever enough to trade on its sources with humor and class. It's "Peggy Sue Lives on Elm Street," with dollops of "Carrie," "The Exorcist" and a half dozen other genre stalwarts.
The "Blue Velvet" of high school horror pictures...Certainly, it's not on the deeply personal, highly idiosyncratic artistic level of the David Lynch film, but it is a splendid example of what imagination can do with formula genre material.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 User Ratings
7.1
64% Positive
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
21% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
14% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 User Ratings
7.1
64% Positive
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
21% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
14% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
I think it's a pretty good sequel, that's a bit over the top. And I like it.
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I fell asleep during the first one, so I didn't have any expectations going in. Just wanted to see Michael Ironside again. And boy, oh boy, PROM NIGHT II did not disappoint. First of all, it's a possession flick set in High School, you get Ironside as the principal with a dark past, a very horny ghost, everything explodes (including gravestones), and a bonkers finale! I had a lot of fun with this one!
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Hello Mary Lou has nothing much to do with the original "Prom Night" (1980), except that it's somewhat more entertaining if female nudity, bizarre violence and comically deadpan special effects amuse you...Bruce Pittman, the director, and Ron Oliver, who wrote the screenplay, have constructed the movie as if it were a gourmet banquet for toddlers. From the first course to the last, it's all ice cream.
Before it's done, Hello Mary Lou has touched most of the bases, flirting with taboos (incest, locker-room lesbianism, fingernails on the blackboard) and purloining effects from the Nightmare on Elm Street series. It's a badly made film, as awkward as can be, and long stretches of it make no sense whatsoever. Nor does it manage, as the better slasher films do, to re-create a high-school milieu of even passing authenticity. [21 Oct 1987, p.D5]
Ultimately it's all too predictable.
Horror movie from 1987. The movie is pretty much the same as Carrie. Not only is the girl murdered here innocent, she's the slutty girl in school. Beautiful effects were used in those years. Again there are nude scenes and sexual elements. Again, there is an aunt who is buttoning her shirt up to the last hole of her neck, and is obsessed with the church. Watchable for nostalgia.
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Awards
Genie Awards
• 2 Nominations
Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival
• 2 Nominations
