Donny Broussard Reviews: “Prom Night (Blu-Ray)”

The Film

Sometimes after watching a film it takes me a while to figure out exactly how I feel about it. I have to digest the enjoyable moments along with the disappointments, but after watching “Prom Night” I knew exactly how I felt about it. I hated it. That’s right it sucked from beginning to end. I wasn’t expecting it to be all that great because I’m not a fan of remakes, but I didn’t expect the smoldering pile of crap that unfolded before my eyes.

The acting in this flick is paper thin and non of the actors seem to be trying at all. Can anyone say “show me the money!” The only entertaining and believable actor in the whole cast is Johnathon Schaech who plays the crazy teacher so in love with his student that he just has to chop all her friends up into little pieces. No wait, that might have been a half decent movie, but no one gets chopped up in this flick. Hell, there’s almost no blood at all in this flick. In fact it’s so tame that I’m pretty sure you could run it on Nickelodeon without cutting and no one would even notice that they weren’t watching the Halloween episode of “Drake and Josh.”

Are teenagers as boring as the studio suits are making them out to be? Because I’m pretty sure that it was teenagers that spent their parents hard earned money to check out the original version, and I’m pretty sure that the teenagers that bought tickets to see this weak tit remake wouldn’t have been disappointed if the horror film they were watching was actually bloody.

Anyway, after thinking about it I thought of one good thing that could come from this horrible turd of a movie. The studio could sell it to the Army and have them play it on giant movie screens. I guarantee after a week of this stinker any enemy would be waving the white flag. This is most definitely not a killer film.

Special Features

Audio Commentary - Director Nelson McCormick along with actors Johnathon Schaech and Brittany Snow was actually much more enjoyable than watching the normal film, but still put me to sleep at the half hour mark.

Yearbook - There is a full video yearbook from Bridgeport High that’s briefly seen in the flick, which didn’t impress me.

A Night to Remember: The Making of Prom Night - is a short documentary on the making of the flick. It’s not to bad, mostly because director Nelson McCormick is sort of an interesting cat. I didn’t hate this feature, although it would have been much better if presented in high definition.

Gag Reel - I kinda dug the gag reel on this disc. First off it’s really short, and second it’s pretty funny.

Profile of a Killer - A short about the films nut case killer that talks about real life serial killers as well, I was bored.

Gothic Space: Creating the Pacific Grand Hotel - Is a slightly interesting feature about the production design that went into the film’s hotel location.

Prom Night Phto Album: Real Prom Stories from the Cast - The cast of the film talk about their actual prom stories and surprisingly some of them are kinda funny. If you have to watch this flick instead of just picking up the original then check out this feature.

Also on this disc are “Best Place to Hide a Body Poll, Trailers (some of which are in high definition), a TV spot, and a kinda lame feature called BD-Live Enabled. It would have been more bang for the buck if the disc had more than just high definition trailers, but alas that all that got the HD treatment. My recommendation is to rent this puppy if you have absolutely got to see it.