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    Prom Night (1980)

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    While playing in a derelict building, four children accidentally kill a young girl called Robin Hammond (Tammy Bourne) and swear to cover it up. But six years later, as the quartet prepares for their prom night, each receives a menacing phone call from someone who knows their secret.

    Jamie Lee Curtis cemented her Scream Queen title with this inventively plotted – (relatively) light on gore – entry in the teenagers-in-jeopardy/stalk-and-slash cycle inaugurated by Halloween (1978) and appropriating the Carrie (1976) high-school setting.

    An elongated and suspenseful chase sequence through the campus and the surprise identity of the masked maniac lifts it above average.

    promnight

    Mr Hammond
    Leslie Nielsen
    Kim
    Jamie Lee Curtis
    Nick
    Casey Stevens
    Mrs Hammond
    Antoinette Bower
    Wendy
    Anne-Marie Martin
    Alex
    Michael Tough
    Sykes
    Robert Silverman
    Vicki
    Pita Oliver
    Kelly
    Mary Beth Rubens
    Jude
    Joy Thompson

    Director
    Paul Lynch

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