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Prom Night
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Prom Night is a 1980 Canadian horror film directed by Paul Lynch. The cast includes Leslie Nielsen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Anne-Marie Martin, and Antoinette Bower. The movie was filmed in Toronto and produced by Simcom Limited, Guardian Trust Company, Prom Night Productions, and AVCO Embassy Pictures. It was distributed by Embassy Pictures and Netflix, with a release date of July 18, 1980.
The film has a runtime of 92 or 93 minutes and was released in the English language. Its tagline is "If you're not back by midnight...You won't be coming home!" The budget was 1,500,000, and the revenue reached 14,796,236. Paul Zaza composed the music. The film is part of the Prom Night Collection and has received an R rating.
Critical reception includes a review score of 4.6/10, 45%, and 45/100. The Metascore is 45, and the IMDb rating is 5.3 based on 23,315 votes. The TMDb vote average is 5.723. The film received two nominations total. Genres associated with the work include horror, slasher, teen, mystery, and thriller.
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Film · TMDB
5.7At a high school senior prom, a masked killer stalks four teenagers who were responsible for the accidental death of a classmate six years prior.
Cast
- Leslie Nielsen as Mr. Hammond
- Jamie Lee Curtis as Kimberly Hammond
- Casey Stevens as Nick McBride
- Anne-Marie Martin as Wendy Richards
- Antoinette Bower as Mrs. Hammond
- Michael Tough as Alex Hammond
Themes
- high school
- dancing
- dance
- child murder
- revenge
- murder
- prom
- serial killer
- slasher
- burning man
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Ratings
IMDb
5.3/10
23,315 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
45%
Metacritic
45/100
- Year
- 1980
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Genres
- Horror, Mystery, Thriller
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 2 nominations total
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- teen film
- Country of origin
- Canada
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Paul Lynch
- Composer
- Paul Zaza
- Filming location
- Toronto
- Duration
- 91
- FilmAffinity ID
- 512712
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- Prom Night (1980) film logo.png
Show 5 more facts
- publication date
- 1980-12-18
- title
- Prom Night
- distributed by
- Netflix
- review score
- 45/100
- Commons category
- Prom Night (1980 film)
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