Prom Night
Screen Gems | Release Date: April 11, 2008 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
17
METASCORE
Overwhelming dislike based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
2
Negative:
9
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30
Los Angeles TimesMark Olsen
This is as listless, mindless and utterly useless a piece of corporate brain-clog as one is likely to come across for quite some time. Read full review
25
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
Despite having the same title and a similar premise to a 1980 Jamie Lee Curtis flick (kids getting slaughtered on prom night), this is NOT a remake. In fact, it really doesn't have much of a plot. It's basically "The O.C." with a body count. Read full review
25
Entertainment WeeklyClark Collis
Viewers' own evenings, meanwhile, will likely be ruined by unimaginative direction, inane dialogue, and Schaech's passing resemblance to Forrest Gump. Read full review
20
L.A. WeeklyChuck Wilson
McCormick and screenwriter J.S. Cardone don’t have one original thought between them, but they do appear to share an obsession with characters opening hotel-room closets in which the steel hangers gleam ominously. Read full review
20
The New York TimesJeannette Catsoulis
The movie offers less gore than the average Band-Aid commercial and fewer scares than the elimination episodes of "Dancing With the Stars." Read full review
16
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
There's really nothing much to Prom Night: No twists, no atmosphere, no big Grand Guignol setpieces, not a single moment when it tries to do something novel with the event, the killings, the villain, or the victims. It's a little like going on a tour of the slaughterhouse, where death is meted out with mechanical regularity, but visitors are kept at a safe, PG-13 distance from all the butchering. Read full review
12
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
When Jamie Lee Curtis ran from a killer in 1980's "Prom Night," she was 22 and had a unique gift for belting out fear. She was the Beverly Sills of slasher flicks. That "Prom Night" was dumb, but it wasn't insulting in the way this remake is. Read full review
0
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jason Anderson
A bland, timid and thoroughly un-thrilling teen thriller. Read full review
0
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
A nearly bloodless slasher film with fewer surprises than a broken jack-in-the-box. Read full review
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