The Original Prom Night Revisited
Take a good hard look at your own prom picture. (Go ahead and dig it out, I'll wait.) Does it already look tragically out of date? Do you appear to be having more fun than you really were? Or is there really still a spark there, a portrait of the glory of youth?
The original Prom Night is all of these things. And still, filmmakers keep hauling Prom Night back to its feet year after year. After three sequels and now a full-fledged remake, we can't help but feel a little silly as we watch the original, but it's familiar enough that we can't look away. John Carpenter had already thrown a coming-out party for Jamie Lee Curtis two years earlier with Halloween, making her casting as Kim Hammond a tad redundant. Yet without her warm liquid eyes, beautifully grave facial expressions -- and, yes, super-freaky disco dancing -- there would be no reason to care about this slash-by-numbers affair.
