The above statement comes from the cop at the end of the movie, and it encapsulates my exact sentiments regarding Prom Night 2, as I really have no idea what I just watched, but I sure know it was very strange indeed.
The story revolves around a girl who dies a fiery death and decides decades later it's now time to rise from her grave and seek to exact her revenge on the one she blames for her demise. This is all good and well - we can take this is as a fair course of action - after all, this is an 80s horror film and would expect nothing less. Trouble is, the people who made this movie, forgot to hire a script writer, a director and a special effects technician. It's an extremely poorly made movie and the picture quality is frighteningly terrible.
On top of this pile of scattered debris, we also find a shetload of copy-cat scenes, that absolutely border on the illegal, at least of a moral nature, as numerous movies, such as Nightmare on Elm Street, Carrie and Exorcist are direct victims of idea robbery. And I think that's what really gave me the most negative vibes about Prom Night 2, how it steals from other movies and has no pieces of originality whatsoever.
But as I say, the problems with it go far deeper than plagaristic activities. It's meant to be a horror but it's never scary. At all. The kills are lame and spaced so far apart, I forgot who the previous killed character was and also forgot it's meant to be a horror.
Make no mistake, this movie is a mistake. I managed however to find 3 stars for it, representing the amount of times I thought about, but refrained from, ending it and returning to my serial killer doco series on Tubi. Wendy Lyon's form in the showers also stopped me from falling asleep.
The story revolves around a girl who dies a fiery death and decides decades later it's now time to rise from her grave and seek to exact her revenge on the one she blames for her demise. This is all good and well - we can take this is as a fair course of action - after all, this is an 80s horror film and would expect nothing less. Trouble is, the people who made this movie, forgot to hire a script writer, a director and a special effects technician. It's an extremely poorly made movie and the picture quality is frighteningly terrible.
On top of this pile of scattered debris, we also find a shetload of copy-cat scenes, that absolutely border on the illegal, at least of a moral nature, as numerous movies, such as Nightmare on Elm Street, Carrie and Exorcist are direct victims of idea robbery. And I think that's what really gave me the most negative vibes about Prom Night 2, how it steals from other movies and has no pieces of originality whatsoever.
But as I say, the problems with it go far deeper than plagaristic activities. It's meant to be a horror but it's never scary. At all. The kills are lame and spaced so far apart, I forgot who the previous killed character was and also forgot it's meant to be a horror.
Make no mistake, this movie is a mistake. I managed however to find 3 stars for it, representing the amount of times I thought about, but refrained from, ending it and returning to my serial killer doco series on Tubi. Wendy Lyon's form in the showers also stopped me from falling asleep.