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Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (1987)
Rate:
4
Viewed:
12/19
12/19:
It seems the Prom Night franchise is in the business of ripping off well-known horror films.
The most obvious source is Carrie. In the original, there's also a lot of
Halloween with, for some inexplicable
reason, Saturday Night Fever thrown in. In the sequel, I saw plenty of familiarity from
A Nightmare on Elm Street
with the constant annoying references to The Exorcist. So I guess the
appropriate title should've been A Nightmare on Exorcist Street: Carrie's Revenge Twice Over.
One thing is for sure: the sequel looks fresher, is less amateurish, gets right down to it quickly, and has more
deaths and nudity than the original although there's no connection between these two, save for the same high school and one
good line. However, for a 97-minute flick, it feels twice as long because there's a lot of filler with rip-offs of the
aforementioned films and they're all stupid.
I'm surprised Michael Ironside, who just came off the success of
Top Gun, appeared in this when I thought
Scanners was enough for him. Then again, it's a Canadian film, and he is a Canadian. The rest of
the cast is made up of untalented D-listers who aren't worth bothering with.
While watching A Nightmare on Exorcist Street: Carrie's Revenge Twice Over, I fail to understand what's so special
about proms. I skipped mine because it had no significance. When I read that high school kids had spent thousands of dollars
dressing up, getting their hair and nails done, renting a limo, and booking one night at a fancy hotel presumably to lose their
virginity, I was like, "What the...?" And forget that Prom Queen crap; it's the most "who cares?" event of the whole thing.
All in all, the prom genre begins and ends with only Carrie.