April 7- Is Going to the Prom Always So Scary?
Have you checked out our “Prom Night” Sven webisodes? It’s all in support of the chilling feature “Prom Night”-slashing its way into your local theater on this Friday April 11.
Yesterday, we ran through the history of the “Prom Night” franchise- which is chock full of revenge, prom night massacres, evil spirits, and teenagers in peril. That got me wondering- why are these proms such a perfect setting for mayhem and horror?
Does it all stem from the unpleasant memories people had about their prom night? The endings of relationships, the end of innocence, the end of the “safe” world of high school- or maybe the rejection of not being asked to the prom, or going with someone who paid more attention to someone else? Is there pent-up anger towards prom nights that writers and directors have released in movies that feature such deadly doings at various proms?
Let’s face it- plenty of bad stuff happens at proms in the movies…and not just in entries in the “Prom Night” series itself. Can anyone who’s ever seen it forget the prom from the classic 1976 horror film “Carrie”? The poor young woman with telekinetic powers is finally having the night of her life at the prom when- BAM!(with apologies to Emeril) she gets marinated with pig’s blood, which sets off her mental powers in a massacre nobody can erase from their mind!
Didn’t we have another telekinetic prom catastrophe in the Scott Baio film “Zapped!” which ran once on our Sven show?
Even when it ran, I thought it qualified as not a horror movie-but a horrible movie…
Here’s a bizarre prom film- 1998’s “I’ve Been Watching You 2: Pep Squad.” Get this-some high school kids are trying to hide the fact that their evil principal has been, let us say, put on detention permanently-oh, okay- accidentally bumped off! However, an evil prom queen candidate knows about it – and decides to blackmail them- so, they get another student to
take out the blackmailing prom queen- but, she agrees to do so ONLY if she can become prom queen! (I just wrote that, and even MY head is spinning…) even more confusing- this is “I’ve Been Watching You 2”- but I have yet to locate the first ‘I’ve Been Watching You!”
Maybe YOU have a personal prom horror story- it may not be movie-worthy, but it could be blog-worthy…so send it to me! svengoolie@wciu.com …
Yesterday, we ran through the history of the “Prom Night” franchise- which is chock full of revenge, prom night massacres, evil spirits, and teenagers in peril. That got me wondering- why are these proms such a perfect setting for mayhem and horror?
Does it all stem from the unpleasant memories people had about their prom night? The endings of relationships, the end of innocence, the end of the “safe” world of high school- or maybe the rejection of not being asked to the prom, or going with someone who paid more attention to someone else? Is there pent-up anger towards prom nights that writers and directors have released in movies that feature such deadly doings at various proms?
Let’s face it- plenty of bad stuff happens at proms in the movies…and not just in entries in the “Prom Night” series itself. Can anyone who’s ever seen it forget the prom from the classic 1976 horror film “Carrie”? The poor young woman with telekinetic powers is finally having the night of her life at the prom when- BAM!(with apologies to Emeril) she gets marinated with pig’s blood, which sets off her mental powers in a massacre nobody can erase from their mind!
Didn’t we have another telekinetic prom catastrophe in the Scott Baio film “Zapped!” which ran once on our Sven show?
Even when it ran, I thought it qualified as not a horror movie-but a horrible movie…
Here’s a bizarre prom film- 1998’s “I’ve Been Watching You 2: Pep Squad.” Get this-some high school kids are trying to hide the fact that their evil principal has been, let us say, put on detention permanently-oh, okay- accidentally bumped off! However, an evil prom queen candidate knows about it – and decides to blackmail them- so, they get another student to
take out the blackmailing prom queen- but, she agrees to do so ONLY if she can become prom queen! (I just wrote that, and even MY head is spinning…) even more confusing- this is “I’ve Been Watching You 2”- but I have yet to locate the first ‘I’ve Been Watching You!”
Maybe YOU have a personal prom horror story- it may not be movie-worthy, but it could be blog-worthy…so send it to me! svengoolie@wciu.com …
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