Prom Night (1980) KILL COUNT

[Music] welcome to the kill count where we tally up the victims in all our favorite horror movies and show you how they were made I'm James aise and today we're looking at prom Knight a Canadian film released in 1980 prom Knight is one of those early slashers very obviously influenced by Halloween its title is a holiday or event and it stars Jam Lee Curtis right in the middle of her scream Queen run that included the first two Halloweens the fog and Terror train slashers are pretty hit or miss with me though I do like the early ones that have an AR I ISC Edge to them like happy birthday to me tourist trap new year's evil and My Bloody Valentine like I said a lot of holidays in there I'm glad to say prom night fits in with that upper echelon thanks in part to its other obvious influence Galo films the Italian Proto slasher sub genre often featured stylized filmmaking and killers in Black masks with sharp objects all of that is present in prom night buttressed by a bunch of natural performances even if most of the characters aren't all that defined but they feel like they're actual friends and it makes the movie more mature than you might expect sure it can get a little slow but hey it's got like a 3-minute disco dance sequence and a guy who calls himself slick I can't be mad at it as with many slashers promite gave way to a franchise hello Mary Lou prom night 2 is fucking incredible a bizarre Supernatural carry ripoff that has absolutely nothing to do with the first film prom night 3 The Last Kiss follows Mary Lou again and becomes a full-on comedy slasher with mixed results prom night 4 Deliver Us from Evil is its own weird fucking thing and then there was a remake in 2008 because of course there was it was 2008 for now I'll only look at the original and part two because they're great maybe in the future I'll cover the cheap ones in the remake they're worth watching though even if they're dated they've got charm for the most part these movies are a flavorful part of Horror history they deserve to have their kills counted and if this first one's good enough for Jenna Ortega it's good enough for you okay it's just a proper way to do a slasher like if you ever needed some sort of Guiding Light I think prom KN night is a really really great great one before we get to the kills I'd like to thank our sponsor uh let me just uh pull out the email with her talking points um yeah I think this is [Music] it it's been 6 years since that day I didn't know when I clicked the link that it was an impostor email that it would infect my computer with malware and send all my information to scammers my password my credit card info my life as I knew it ended I sleep on the kill count set now my wife left me to visit her family for the weekend but I couldn't afford a ticket to go with her I think I found a way to fix all this [Music] though stop what the hell James relax I'm you from the future I'm here to stop you from ruining your our life with the help of 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a big chance at the high school dance and see how many people die at [Music] it the movie begins with a bunch of kids chanting the killers are coming killers are coming killers are coming killers are coming they ain't getting psyched for Mr bright side though they're playing hide-and go seek in an abandoned building just breathing in all that nasty air but that's how dedicated these 11-year-olds are to this game I mean that is an actual kid on an actual roof right there in this version of h& s each kid becomes a killer when they're found one by by one they all join The Killers till you've got yourself an old-fashioned push pile with a little girl getting traumatized for life they chased 10-year-old Robin Hammond past the uh firemen pole slides and Shout her stuttering ass all the way back up to a window these four are playing too hard man cuz after a [Music] while yep we get an honest to God Kid kill by some honest to God kid Killers killers are coming they done told you themselves Nick McBride immediately wants to tell someone about this bullying gone wrong but Wendy's got a point bro if we tell anyone they'll say it's our fault now why would they say that oh yeah when he makes jumpsuit Jude crybaby Kelly and Nicki baseball swear to secrecy cool cool run away six dead Robin years later the Hammond family is still emotional especially her mom her dad is surely more serious prom KN night was one of Leslie nielson's last dramatic roles he actually filmed this right after shooting Airplane the movie that changed his career to a comedic one airplane was released 2 weeks before prom night so it might have been weird to see him in such a dry role as a grieving father and School principal it was always a jokester in person though he used to have this rubber fart machine that he would have around with him all the time on set Nelson kept that gag going his entire life I will do almost anything I can for a laugh and in fact continued it even into death his gravestone reads letter rip rip dude Robin Hammond is also survived by her siblings older sister Kim and twin brother Alex You Can Tell Robin and Alex were twins cuz as kids they wore matching turtlenecks of medium size as for Kim the casting makes clear she's our final girl which makes it a little weird that young Kim was hardly in the opening scene at all she just called Nick an idiot and dipped out probably like call me when I'm Jam Lee Curtis Kim is super popular and friends with most of the group that secretly bullied her sister to death they're reintroduced to us as high school seniors as they each receive a cryptic phone call dude yes can you come out to play tonight I love this as a storytelling technique Kelly Wendy it's a creepy and effective way to show you who's who now that they're all growned up we don't all have a list of names like their caller does you know director Paul Lynch was told to come up with a holiday horror movie by Irwin y blon the producer who made Halloween a billboard inspired the prom night idea which was married to a childhood Revenge story line from Bob guza in a screenplay written by William Gray the blonds didn't end up getting to produce though it was sniped by Peter R Simpson who wanted to cast Eve Plum from The Brady Bunch as Kim Lynch pushed for Jam Lee Curtis knowing she was the better option to lead this cast of High School students they go to Alexander Hamilton their school is Alexander Hamilton and there's a million boys who will go to prom for just one date just one date Kim's going with a grownup Nick McBride whom she called stupid as a kid H who's stupid now huh they're king and queen of prom and are pretty into each other too even though his ex-girlfriend Wendy won't take no for an answer she was the ring leader bully as a child and as a teenager she's bullying kisses out of Nick see you later lover told her it was over worked real well even though Nick and Kim are king and queen of the prom Wendy hints that she'll steal him away with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer it's not who you go with honey it's who takes you home other Hamilton boys eligible as dates include lirano a greasy harassing type say goodbye Lou Goodbye Lou Drew shinik Kelly's boyfriend who's constantly trying to get into her pants and Seymour crane AKA slick whose main pitch seems to be that I have a van now since prom night is jallow adjacent let's get a cop PL going up in this bitch this one follows Nick's dad police Lieutenant McBride as he tracks down a guy named Leonard merch who just escaped a mental institute 6 years ago the schizophrenic child molester merch was wrongfully accused as the one responsible for Robin Hammond's death McBride and his cops chased the guy down and lit him on fire as retributive Justice he got the full Fred Krueger treatment now that he's escaped merch has got McBride so hardboiled he's doing film Noir narrations I've got to get that bastard before he butcher someone else this whole subplot drags the movie down and ultimately isn't that important oh shit except for this kill I've got to count they find the body of a nurse merch killed when he escaped The Institute in her car other than that it feels disconnected probably because it was a late addition to the script but I do love the contrast between merch's doctor Fairchild and Dr Lumis from Halloween Lumis obsessively hunts Michael Myers because he saw the devil's eyes in him as a kid Dr Fairchild says he's not an expert on some guy just cuz he used to be his doctor Lieutenant you're asking me to comment on a catatonic schizophrenic who was disfigured and institutionalized 6 years ago I'm sorry I Leonard merch is an unknown quantity now anyway they think that merch might be back in town and killing people out of Revenge that's what I gleam anyway the look he gives us I don't think Fairchild wants us to know anything I think it would be wiser to keep quiet about this for now what the fuck did we do at lunch there's a cafeteria scuffle where Alex Hammond kicks a lot of ass I mean I ain't surprised dude walks around Hulk out in that white shirt all the time seriously Alex been kind of blue wins the fight with a kidney punch then whes when principal dad suspends him instead of his son as if he wasn't the one who started it by forcefully kissing Kim in a ski mask the little criminal Lou would eventually join the other side of the law where he tragically witnessed his ecin partner aumb to a sugary death this horse is a diabetic there's another red herring subplot with the School Janitor Mr syes again it takes upscreen time and doesn't do anything besides give us a butt to look at I normally wouldn't mention it at all except this lip licker is played by Robert a Silverman a Canadian actor who is in a bunch of Cronenberg stuff and Jason X there he played the bizarre deer Perez who had that Skype scene with the professor Perez was part of our podcast ranking the Friday the 13th side character so I had to mention him dude's fucking weird Kim and Nick officially become an item at the nearby Bluffs I love the cran shot they have of this location though I wonder whose bright idea it was to build a school right next to a cliff and you know I got to say niiko is kind of a sicko dude's kissing on a girl whose little sister he secretly killed as a kid he tells Kim that he remembers her sister's death yeah he probably thinks about it in the morning when the alarm gives out a warning out the corner of his eye seeing that little girl fly but before he can confess he's Saved by the Bell I scorned by Nick Wendy links up with Lou and takes him to a burger shop so he can order a bit of butt cheek it's also so they can scheme this is the carry portion of the film with Lou as a sort of crom magnant Travolta they're planning a prom prank to get back of the Hammond while at the same time someone else is plotting payback against Wendy and Jude and Kelly they all find torn out yearbook photos in their lockers alongside glass shards the night of the dance lines up with the anniversary of Robin's death which is why Kim's mom is so absent-minded and sad Kim and Alex seem to be doing okay though they get ready for the big dance as Nick Waits downstairs reflecting on how deranged it is he's dating a girl whose little sister he killed Wendy's ready to kill again tonight judging by that little red number she's got on things so Slinky had crawled down a whole damn staircase too bad lose lacking the same sort of style what the hell is this where's your suit it's in the truck ouch and got to ride with the boys in the back too they're off to a romantic evening for show this prom is Disco as fuck baby we're talking many a feathered hairstyle and four all over that floor good thing this movie came out right as the genre died the ladies arrive with their dates be them popular prom king or band man slick I'm slick that's so I noticed a token nothing more slick slick for real though slide Nick that J nice Wendy and Lou arrive and all their resplendant Glory prompting Kim and Nick to to go on the defensive and show them up with a dance with assistant DJ Alex's help the disco rific song Prom Night begins starting a dance sequence that goes on both way too long and not nearly long enough it's 3 minutes straight of Kim and Nick cutting a rug and I love it I also love zoran's parody and the Halloween they talk despite her star power from Halloween and her scream Queen lineage Jamie Lee Curtis had to audition to get the role part of why she got it was her dancing skills no wonder Wendy and Lou can't exactly keep up this extensive dance was choreographed by director Paul Lynch's sister and practiced by the actors for 10 days before they shot it it's heavily influenced by John Travolta and Saturday Night Fever on set the cast danced to Major disco hits they couldn't afford the rights to so composers Paul zazza and Carl ziter had to write six disco songs and less than a week they were told to make them as close to the hits as possible I want you to come close enough that we get sued but not close enough that they win we ended up getting sued yeah probably because of this song he really ROP that and thought I Will Survive a lawsuit Kelly and her horny boyfriend Drew sneak off to the locker room but when she pauses the action out of discomfort he turns into a real asshole what are you son fairy tale princess he leaves her with his Rose which is kind of send it mixed signals TBH what's crystal clear though is that Kelly's the next to go on the kill count the Mas killer approaches from behind and uses a Mir Shard to Slit her throat just off screen sorry Kelly sucks that you died and sucks that Drew's already got another date meanwhile Jude is also getting that prom D when the Chevy is shaking don't go mistaking it for anything but a good time these two are cute together especially when they admit they're each other's first time but lest we forget Jude still helped bully that little girl to death 6 years ago that's why the van doors open and Jude gets stabbed to death in the neck with a glass Shard by the killer slick shouts and punches the killer away but he ain't getting out of here without a short little stunt scene well actually the truth of it is slick ain't getting out of here at all the killer causes him to drive his van off the bluff and an awesome vehicle stunt that sees the van burst into flame incinerating slick God damn I love when old movies TOS Vehicles off cliffs this particular Cliff was played by the scarber Bluffs in Toronto shooting in Canada allowed production to take advantage of the 1975 tax incentives the high school they shot at was also in Toronto the Don Mills Collegiate Institute and they only had a week to shoot in late August before real classes resumed Wendy's not enjoying herself at the dance so she steps into the bathroom to freshen up the killer attacks her with an axe and gives Chase uh but don't forget your weapon you kind of need that dude I mean how else are you going to barely miss her with that swing wow lowkey awesome Stunt by Wendy's actress there this chase scene is kind of cool since it goes all throughout the dark empty School while the music in the gymnasium continues barely audible in the background it ends with some interesting editing that shows a blood puddle before revealing its source a bloody Kelly just be happy that she ain't a Skelly it still causes Wendy to scream and she's spelled by a few wax swings from the killer off screen Wendy was played by anarie Martin who had a brief uncredited appearance in Halloween 2 as nurse hot tubs fra more interestingly she freaking co-wrote twist her with her then husband Michael kryon what it's time for the prom procession or whatever which also means it's time for loose prank he and his buddy buddy grab Nick and knock him out with nothing simpler than a backhand and a sound effect easy peasy Nick is succeeded by King Lou ruler of high school boys who kind of smell like beef jerky but you know what happens when someone don't like a king it's Off With His Head blou rolls his little head down the catwalk yeah down the catwalk down the catwalk yeah they flashed their little bulbs on the catwalk as you might have guessed the money shot here was done with lse actor poking his head through a hole in the floor Prosthetics designer Warren Keeler did make a fake head though which was used for some shots and which he kept long after the latex started to Decay e chaos ensues but Kim valiantly charges backstage to help guide her King to safety well she tries to anyway but he's got a hurt leg get out ah Kim you got to be more forceful like how Pam was with Reggie Friday 5 get up get as they limp away the killer leaps out but Kim lands a solid hit that stops the attack she sees his eyes clearly and recognizes him then follows as he stumbles outside towards the crowd and the police Kim yells for them not to shoot as the killer collapses to the ground then she unmasks him revealing her younger brother Alex as a kid he saw his twin sister Robin forced out of the window by the others on the 6ear anniversary of her death he's been killing them one by one out of Revenge according to his actor Michael T Alex is wearing lipstick because he's embodying his twin sister during this quest for vengeance don't know about all that but I do know there's a pretty big mistake with this killer reveal the closeup where Kim realizes who the Killer is shows them with brown eyes even though Alex has blue eyes that's because in most cases the killer was played by stunt performer and coordinator Terry Martin who literally threw himself into the performance tough came up with and performed the creepy voice during the phone calls though the movie ends as Alex cries out for Robin and dies wait why'd he die he didn't get shot or slashed just B with the side of an ax head whatever it's not how many bodies you take to the prom it's how many you leave it with let's find out how many that is and get to the [Music] number eight people died in prom night which feels about right for an early slasher there were five female victims and only three male victims the rare red majority pie chart in fact out of the 30 other kill counts I've done with eight kills only one of them has had this ratio freaking treevenge hey uh hey watch the tree venge kill count please with the run time of 93 minutes prom Knight had a kill on average every 11.63 minutes I'll give the golden Chainsaw for coolest kill to L for sure great method great presentation it deserves Center Stage Dom for lus kill absolutely goes to Wendy she's the queen bee and gets killed off screen highly unsatisfying and that's it prom Knight came out in 1980 and helped solidify Jam Lee Curtis as a scream Queen the sequel that came 7 years later would be a whole lot more insane and completely disconnected I'll show you that bat shittery next week but until then I'm James aise this has been the kill count on the next kill count the prom it's an evening filled with Glamour and excitement oh I am going to look so hot but there are certain considerations one must abide by to make sure the night is fun for everyone it's my duty I'm a teenager first it is the young man's responsibility to provide Refreshments the potato Nature's perfect vegetable it's the young lady's duty to be courious in all her actions you shut your fucking mouth bitch of course we understand you may be fighting teenage hormones or possessions by prom queens from the ' 50s she talks like we're in an Elvis Presley movies still please try try to avoid getting lost inside of chalkboards that wouldn't happen or having unsavory relations with your relatives or rocking horses hey give her a break guys huh I mean she's only trying to be an individual finally as the night draws to a close always remember to be gracious when asking for what you want will you me this week keep the bitch in Motion Picture hello Mary L Prom Night 2 I loved every minute of it and on Friday don't forget to wear your prom dress for the kill count only on dead meat I don't know we got here something strange hello Mary Lou prom night 2 can currently be watched on the pictured streaming platforms dead meat always recommends you watch the movie for yourself before it's kill count it's the only way to have your own properly informed opinion kill counts are never meant to replace the experience of watching a film thanks a lot for watching this fucking Prim night kill count baby I've been wanting to do this and the second movie for so long now I don't even know when I wrote the first draft of this script it was maybe a year ago I was going to do the whole series at first but man it doesn't it just doesn't look like it do well I mean to be fair those third fourth ones are like direct to video 34 aspect ratio like a fucking square like you're watching a sitcom slasher just grainy awful nothing to do with the other Mo it's it's ridiculous man I just realized like I would never be able to put out home sweet home now and that episode is what brought us business we wouldn't have business man fuck anyway I hope you enjoyed this episode cuz I obviously this the kind of shit I love also gave me an excuse to dance with my wife and that lady is hot thanks everyone be good people

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Length: 20min 27sec (1227 seconds)

Published: Fri May 17 2024