Production
The film was originally titled "The Haunting of Hamilton High", and includes many references and homages to past horror films in its script, including A Nightmare on Elm Street, Carrie, The Exorcist. In addition, several characters were named after popular horror film directors including John Carpenter, George Romero, Wes Craven, and Tod Browning. Producer Peter Simpson and The Samuel Goldwyn Company re-shot half of the film before it completed production. The film was later retitled by Alliance Films to build on the success of Prom Night, which Simpson feels hut the film.
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“An art whose limits depend on a moving image, mass audience, and industrial production is bound to differ from an art whose limits depend on language, a limited audience, and individual creation. In short, the filmed novel, in spite of certain resemblances, will inevitably become a different artistic entity from the novel on which it is based.”
—George Bluestone, U.S. educator, critic. “The Limits of the Novel and the Limits of the Film,” Novels Into Film, Johns Hopkins Press (1957)
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