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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 constantly 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 more 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 failed to understand what's
so special about proms. I skipped mine because it had no significance. When I read 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 about the Prom Queen
crap; it's the most "who cares?" event of all time.
All in all, the prom genre begins and ends with only Carrie.