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It’s Snow-ing On ‘Prom Night’
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I just love a classic slasher movie, and 1980’s ‘Prom Night’ with Jamie Leigh Curtis ranks right up there. It’s a great formula. Find a way to get a bunch of young actors to take off their clothes, then hack their naked bodies to pieces.
Not only that, but it’s living proof of what dear old Dad always said every time I left on a date, “Sleep with that guy, and a maniac will kill you.”
But enjoyable as that formula is, it was already wearing thin by the time the first ‘Prom Night’ hit the screens. Filmmakers have been trying to reinvent the genre ever since. The ‘Saw’ franchise’s gory, guts-in-your-face sadomasochism seems to be the latest incarnation to strike a vein with audiences.
But director Nelson McCormick decided to go a different way with the remake, which stars Brittany Snow and had its premiere in Los Angeles Wednesday. He chose to focus on the killer’s obsessive relationship with Snow’s character. To ground it in reality.
A noble thought. But unfortunately, he slits his own film’s throat. Horror films are supposed to be fun, over-the-top. They’re the ultimate popcorn movie. But ‘Prom Night’s’ creators don’t seem to get it. Their earnestness is almost laughable.
“I wanted to make my character Donna very, very natural and draw the audience into this girl who’s had it so bad,” says Snow. “So I find myself crying a lot and being very sad because everybody dies. So it was very cool to get to play the different levels of that, of losing my family, and having this killer, and having a great time at a prom, and there are so many different things that I got to play in this."
Please, honey, it’s a slasher flick. Just shut up and bleed.
