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Music, corsages and a killer
| Music, | who has chosen the night of her | |||||
| Corsages | senior prom to finish the job. | |||||
| And a Killer |  | |||||
| 1 | It has been almost 30 years since | |||||
| Jamie Lee Curtis shrieked her way | ||||||
| through the tacky magnificence of | ||||||
| the original “Prom Night,” made at | ||||||
| a time when the slashing of young | ||||||
| girls was more of a cinematic | ||||||
| novelty. | ||||||
| 2 | Jamie Lee Curtis would | |||||
| probably be insulted to learn from | ||||||
| the press notes of this new film | ||||||
| that it has been re-imagined for a | ||||||
| “more sophisticated audience.” | Brittany Snow dances with | |||||
| (Because that’s just what you hope | death in “Prom Night” | |||||
| for in a slasher-movie audience: | ||||||
| sophistication.) To that end, Ms. | 3 | “Prom Night” is a curiously | ||||
 | Curtis’s award- | flaccid affair, dampened by a | ||||
| worthy screams | ridiculous villain (Johnathon | |||||
| have been replaced | Schaech) and a bloodless script | |||||
| by Brittany Snow’s | that channels all its tension into the | |||||
| whimpers as Donna, | choosing of the prom king and | |||||
| sole survivor of a | queen. | |||||
| stalker who killed | ||||||
| her family three years earlier and | The New York Times, 2008 | |||||