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Prom Night '08

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A schoolteacher had become so obsessed with his lovely student (15 years old, yikes!) that he believes only he can have her (FOREVER), and so to make sure she has no one else to turn to but him (in his own sick, depraved mania), this wackjob kills her family, intending to take her for himself. When he's captured, this nutjob later escapes from his lunatic asylum (big surprise there, right?), he plans to crash her prom night (it is three years later; yeah, convenient time to escape, right?), and kill anyone who stands in his way of securing his prize. ** I read somewhere this is considered a re-imagining of the original Prom Night (1980) with Jamie Lee Curtis, but this Prom Night (2008) is more of a retread and rehash of every sort of slasher flick to come down the pike since the 70s. It is neutered of the more exploitative elements even as this film has a majorly high body count. The killer stabs and stabs and stabs (the sound editing team sure punctured ...