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My next review is of the mediocre “remake” of PROM NIGHT and my generous support to an up and coming starlet Ms. Brittany Snow.             First the film PROM NIGHT, is in my opinion not a real remake of the original Jamie Lee Curtis, 1980, slasher flick, it has it’s own story, own plot and stands on its own to legs as a horror movie. The fact that it just used the title is a really insulting to its own script and own writer, where he wrote an almost original story which could have gotten it’s own title and not piggyback it’s name and reputation on a 1980’s film With that being said, the film as a whole is not original and is not the most entertaining entry in the remake world. The story revolves around the fabulous Brittany Snow and her friends attend their prom at a ritzy hotel, however Snow’s character has a past stalker who of course infiltrates the party and eliminates more than one of her friends in order to get to her. (MINOR SPOILERS) First, the suspense is taken away completely with the identity of the killer being revealed in the first five minutes of the film, we know whom we’re dealing with, and we know that he’s going to be the machine that has to be dismantled. We establish Snow’s friends and we see their relationships as nothing but a-typical characters that we know are going to be targeted because they have flaws and we have sympathy for them. But as in all slasher flicks, the characters aren’t developed to completion because most of the time, they get a hatchet or a machete embedded in their heads. The film is completely predictable and there is nothing left to the imagination, as the police are all idiots and completely are incompetent, when in reality the killer would have been caught in minutes. My question is how come all the dangerous serious killers somehow manage to escape? I mean they can’t all be geniuses like Hannibal Lecter or possessed by evil like Michael Myers. I mean don’t these prisons or sanitariums have more than one or two guards on duty in the middle of the night and don’t they lock the doors? Anyway this film follows the diagram of slasher movies to a Donald Pleasance/WHEN A STRANGER CALLS ending, to perfection. This is a very clichéd, not original, predictable, stale film where if the writer actually was allowed to use a bit more of his talent he could’ve made a suspenseful, witty killer in a hotel film.            HOWEVER, this film’s abysmal appeal is actually saved by our lead heroine played delightfully by Brittany Snow. She has the appeal of what makes a movie star: charisma, charm, wit, looks, talent and did I mention her looks? She is a young actress who appeared in the drama NIP/TUCK as a fascist teen and she starred in the hit musical HAIRSPRAY. I’m sure we will see her in many films to come and will definitely the next big thing. The following video highlights more of her career goals and her take on PROM NIGHT.

            Ms. Snow, I will be watching you and will be a fan of your for life, please don’t confuse me for the stalker in the film you were just in though.

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