Prom Night (1980)
Directed by Paul Lynch
At a high school senior prom, a masked killer stalks four teenagers who were responsible for the accidental death of a classmate six years prior.
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Arguably, "Prom Night" is far less derivative as it was made back in 1980, the time at which the formula was still being perfected.
As suspense builds, young horror movie-nut Randy (Jamie Kennedy) remarks that the police ought to look at some horror pictures, "Prom Night," an early and potent Jamie Lee Curtis flick in particular, to understand that everyone should be considered a suspect.
Featuring a ferociously hair-flipped Curtis as yet another stalked (and virginal) Final Girl, the no-budget psycho thriller Prom Night (1980) has been given the widescreen laserdisc treatment--apparently owing to the hip genre necrophilia of the Scream films (see: Rule No. 1).
"I Know What You Did Last Summer" is head and shoulders above earlier "dead teenager movies" (as Robert Ebert liked to call them) such as "Friday the 13th" (1980) and "Prom Night" (1981).