Video Rewind- Prom Night

With the anticipation of the new horror movie "Prom Night" this Friday (and it looks better than it's 1980 namesake) I started to think of past movies which had a prom theme to them. Since I didn't go to mine there are times I may have missed something, but in the long run, the following movies more than make up for it.

We all know the disasterous results of Carrie White's prom but there have been a lot of movies in which this right of teenage passage turns out good. Well, of course there are a few teenage shenanigans mixed in.

Spoofing the success of "Carrie", six years later, Scott Baio showed up in "Zapped!" as a nerdy science student who accidently develops a formula in which he gains telekinetic powers. While Carrie went on a killing rampage, Baio (as Barney) on the other hand has the ability to undress the girls with his powers.

And before you ask, Barney does have a religious mother (Marya Small) but she's not terrorized by his powers. She's terrorized by a ventriloquist's dummy.

While "Zapped!" spoofs the highly critical "Carrie," Jamie Lee Curtis' "Prom Night" is something to die for...literally. In 1980 when she was the reigning "scream queen" Curtis (in her third consecutive horror film) played Kim Hammond, who's sister Robin (Tammy Bourne) was killed six years earlier in an accident.

Kim's friends Kelly (Marybeth Rubens); Jude (Joy Thompson); Wendy (Eddie Benton) and Nick (Casey Stevens) were all present at the time of Robin's death as was someone else. Now the teens have to face their own demise as the killer picks them off one by one until the secret's revealed.

"Prom Night" has a good premise but you may want to skip this prom. The storyline is slow and you just want the kids to get what's coming to them. There's too much emphasis placed on the past which drags the movie down and before he became the "King of Spoofs" Leslie Neilsen plays Kim and Alex's (Michael Tough) principal father.