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Prom Night
Donna's senior prom is supposed to be the best night of her life, though a sadistic killer from her past has different plans for her and her friends.
2008 · Directed by Nelson McCormick · 89 min · Horror · Drama · Mystery · Screenplay in the scene database · 7 frames
Tagline
A Night To Die For.
Plot
In Bridgeport, Oregon, high school freshman Donna Keppel returns home one evening to find her father and younger brother have been murdered. She later witnesses her mother being killed by an unseen assailant who later attacks Donna as she tries to get help. The assailant is revealed to be her former biology teacher Richard Fenton, who became obsessed with her during her school term, which resulted in him being fired and given a restraining order. After being arrested, Richard gloats that he'll always "love" Donna and that "nothing can separate us".
Three years later, Donna lives with her uncle Jack and aunt Karen while undergoing therapy for her trauma. She and her friends prepare for their senior prom at a 5-star hotel. Meanwhile, police detective Winn learns that Fenton has escaped from a mental hospital. Knowing he will come after Donna, Winn arrives at the hotel with his partner Nash. Fenton acquires a master card key from one of the maids after killing her and breaks into the friends' shared hotel suite, where he first kills Donna's friends Claire and Michael. Later, Donna's other friend Lisa and her boyfriend Ronnie bump into Fenton on their way up to the suite; Lisa soon recognizes him and runs to warn Donna, only to be trapped in the stairwell by him. Fenton chases Lisa on the mezzanine floor, under construction for repairs, where he slits her throat.
Winn finds the body of the man whose name Fenton has been using in the trunk of the man's car in the parking lot of the hotel. Winn then goes up to the room Fenton booked and finds the maid's body. As Winn has the hotel evacuated, Donna goes back up to her room to find Lisa and retrieve her mother's shawl; while there, she runs into Fenton and escapes. One of Donna's classmates, Chrissy, who was vying for prom queen and organized the prom to be held at the hotel, discovered that Lisa was elected to win the crown, much to her dismay. The SWAT team search the hotel but find no sign of him. Winn soon realizes that Fenton slipped past them disguised as a bellhop.
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Crew
- Screenplay: J.S. Cardone
- Cinematography: Checco Varese
- Edited by: Jason Ballantine
- Music: Paul Haslinger
- Production design: Jon Gary Steele
- Produced by: Neal H. Moritz, Toby Jaffe
Cast
- Brittany Snow as Donna Keppel
- Scott Porter as Bobby
- Jessica Stroup as Claire
- Dana Davis as Lisa Hines
- Collins Pennie as Ronnie Heflin
- Kelly Blatz as Michael
- Johnathon Schaech as Richard Fenton
- Ming-Na Wen as Dr. Elisha Crowe
- Idris Elba as Detective Winn
- James Ransone as Detective Nash
Production
- Country: Canada, United States of America
- Language: Italian, English
- Studios: Alliance Films, Original Film, Newmarket Films, Miramax
- Budget: $20,000,000
- Box office: $14,800,000
- Themes: aunt, remake, slasher, death of family, masturbation, black stereotype, renovation, chest
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