Prom Night is a 1980 slasher film directed by Paul Lynch and written by William Gray. Jamie Lee Curtis and Leslie Nielsen star. The film's plot follows a group of high school seniors who are targeted at their prom by a masked killer, seeking vengeance for the accidental death of a young girl (six years earlier). The film features supporting performances from Casey Stevens, Eddie Benton, Mary Beth Rubens and Michael Tough.

Prom Night was filmed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in late 1979 on a budget of $1.5 million. Distributed by Astral Films in Canada and AVCO Embassy Pictures in the United States, the film was released on July 18, 1980 in select cinemas and was an immediate financial success. The film's theatrical release platform was expanded to major USA cities such as Los Angeles in California and New York City in New York in August where the film was again met with high box-office receipts. At the time, the film was AVCO Embassy's most financially successful release, breaking weekend records in Los Angeles, Philadelphia and New England.

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By the end of the film's theatrical run, Prom Night had grossed $15 million in the United States and was Canada's highest-earning horror film of 1980. Critical reaction to the film was varied, with some dismissing the film's depictions of violence against young women, while others alternately praised Prom Night for its more muted violent content. Prom Night received some critical accolades, garnering Genie Award nominations for editing and also for the leading performance of Jamie Lee Curtis. An alternative cut of the film was popularly aired on American and Canadian television networks in 1981.

In the intervening years, Prom Night has accrued a substantial cult following[6] for the film's horror content and also for the film's soundtrack album (which was released by RCA Records in Japan in 1980). Some film scholars have cited Prom Night as one of the most influential slasher films of the period.[7] Several companies released Prom Night on video and the film was also released on DVD by Anchor Bay Entertainment in 1998. A remastered Blu-ray edition of the film was released by Synapse Films in 2014.

In 1974, 11-year-olds Wendy Richards, Jude Cunningham, Kelly Lynch, and Nick McBride play hide-and-seek in an abandoned convent. When 10-year-old Robin Hammond tries to join them, the group starts teasing her, leading to a scared Robin accidentally falling to her death through a window. The children make a pact not to tell anyone what happened in fear of getting in trouble. The shadow of an unseen person who witnessed Robin's death appears.

Six years later in present day, Robin's elder sister, Kim, and fraternal twin brother, Alex, are preparing for the school prom. Kelly, Jude, and Wendy receive anonymous obscene phone calls, while Nick ignores his ringing phone.

A figure wearing a ski mask targets Kelly first, slitting her throat with a mirror shard. Jude and Slick have sex in his van outside school grounds. The masked killer kills Jude and causes Slick to drive off a cliff to his death. Staking out the prom, McBride is informed that the sex offender blamed for Robin's death has been caught.

Now wielding an ax, the killer chases Wendy and hacks her to death. Meanwhile, Kim and Nick prepare to be crowned prom king and queen, but Lou and his lackeys tie up Nick, and Lou takes his crown. Mistaking him for Nick, the killer decapitates him. Lou's severed head sends the prom-goers fleeing in horror.

Kim frees Nick and they are confronted by the killer. In the ensuing brawl, Kim strikes the killer's head with the ax. The killer runs outside and collapses before the police. It is revealed to be Alex, who explains to Kim that he witnessed their sister's death and Jude, Kelly, Wendy and Nick were responsible. He dies in Kim's arms.

Director Paul Lynch developed Prom Night after a meeting with producer Irwin Yablans, who had previously produced Halloween (1978).[8] Lynch had wanted to work on a horror film, and had initially pitched Don't Go See the Doctor, a film about a physician who murders his patients.[9] Yablans instead suggested that Lynch utilize a holiday as a basis for the film, which resulted in Lynch deciding to build the premise around the event of the high school prom.[10] Writer Robert Guza Jr., a University of Southern California film student of whom Lynch was an acquaintance, had written a story about a group of teenagers whose involvement in a tragic event as children came back to haunt them.[11] Guza's story was then adapted and incorporated into the film as the central premise and motive for the film's villain.[12]

While attending a Telefilm Canada event in Los Angeles,[13] Lynch met producer Peter Simpson, to whom he pitched the idea.[14] "I said, 'I'm working on this thing that is called Prom Night," Lynch recalled. "[Peter] said, 'Look, let's get together and talk.' This was on a Thursday. On Monday he read the treatment, came back and said, 'We'll make a deal to develop a script and do Prom Night.' And that's how Prom Night came about."[14] The film was an international co-production between Canada and the United States,[15] and was made under a tax shelter for American film productions shot in Canada.[16]

Leslie Nielsen, an established film and television actor, was cast as Kim Hammond's father; this role marks one of the last serious films for Nielsen, as he spent the remainder of his career performing in comedies.[8] Lynch sought Nielsen for the role as he was one of Canada's "most-experienced actors."[22] Opposite Nielsen, portraying his character's wife, is Antoinette Bower, whom Lynch had seen on numerous Canadian television programs.[23] The majority of the film's supporting actors and actresses were stage performers and recent theater graduates from the University of Toronto.[24] Michael Tough, a 17-year-old actor who was cast as Kim's younger brother, Alex, recalled that he and Curtis spent an afternoon together shopping to become familiar with each other and establish a sibling-like dynamic.[25] Mary Beth Rubens, who appears as Kim's ill-fated friend, Kelly Lynch, had recently graduated from the Montreal Theatre School when she was cast in the role.[26] Joy Thompson was cast as Jude Cunningham, another of Kim's friends stalked by the killer.[27]

Making the environments, creating the sense of terror, creating from the fabric of what was around me... This was Toronto, this Victorian city, [and] there were a lot of interesting buildings to work with, and I quickly saw what was available.

Prom Night was filmed over twenty-four days in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with principal photography beginning August 13, 1979,[1] and completing September 13.[29] The majority of the crew were recent graduates from film schools in Canada.[30] Don Mills Collegiate Institute served as the main school location, while the Langstaff Jail Farm in Richmond Hill was used for the abandoned building featured prominently in the beginning of the film.[31] Art director Reuben Freed had wanted to take advantage of Toronto's Victorian architecture, and felt that the Langstaff building had an appropriate Gothic appearance.[32]

Because of the way the film is structured, the majority of the film's cast spent little time together collectively, as each appear in their own individual subplots leading up to (and during) the prom.[33] The initial shoot took place in the school, as the crew had to complete before school was back in session in late August, while the remainder of the shoot was spent filming the sequences at the various characters' homes.[34] The filming of the dance numbers, which were choreographed by Lynch's sister, were completed without the use of a Steadicam.[35] Lynch stated that he was "amazed they turned out as well as they did", as the crew had little experience with filming such sequences.[36]

In terms of on-screen violence, Lynch had intentionally devised the film to have a minimal amount of gore, as he did not want it to be overtly gratuitous; however, the distributor, Avco Embassy Pictures, mandated that they include some graphic violence, resulting in the on-screen beheading of Lou Farmer in the finale.[37] In order to make the sequence appear realistic, the special effects team decided to build a prop floor through which the actor, David Mucci, could place his head, creating the illusion of his severed head lying on the floor.[8] For the filming of this sequence itself, a dummy head was crafted via prosthetics, and moulded around a prop skull.[38]

The Prom Night score and soundtrack was composed by Paul Zaza and Carl Zittrer, with additional writing by Bill Crutchfield and James Powell.[39] Director Lynch sought Zittrer after hearing his compositions in Black Christmas (1974).[40] The soundtrack of Prom Night includes several disco songs which are featured prominently in the film's prom scenes. Originally, the film was shot with the actors dancing to then-popular tracks by Gloria Gaynor, Donna Summer[citation needed], France Joli[citation needed] Patrick Hernandez and Cheryl Lynn, but, according to Zaza, the publishing rights to the songs were far outside the film's budget.[41] Under orders from producer Peter Simpson, Zaza wrote a series of original disco songs over a five-day period which closely copied the original tracks that were intended to be used in the film.[42] This resulted in a copyright lawsuit for $10 million, which was eventually settled for $50,000.[43]

An official release of the Prom Night soundtrack was issued in Japan in 1980, featuring both the musical score as well as the original disco songs featured in the film. Other "source" music was provided by Canadian band Highstreet.

After production wrapped, Paramount Pictures expressed interest in distributing the movie. However, they only wanted to open it in 300 theaters whereas Avco Embassy purchased the film at the Cannes film market in May 1980 (instead, Paramount released another independent slasher film, Friday the 13th, which premiered two months before Prom Night as an "exact replica of [the trailer] for Carrie (1976)."[44] The distributor issued a total of 250 prints of the film for theatrical distribution.[45] 152ee80cbc

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