Prom Night (1980 Film)
Prom Night is a 1980 Canadian slasher film directed by Paul Lynch and starring Leslie Nielsen and Jamie Lee Curtis. The original music score is composed by Paul Zaza and Carl Zittrer & was filmed in Canada. The story concerns a group of high school seniors who are targeted by an unknown killer in revenge for their culpability in the accidental death of a young girl seven years earlier. The anniversary of the incident falls on their high school's prom night, when the older sister of the dead girl is being crowned prom queen.
The film was given a limited release in the United States on July 18, 1980 (eventually going wide on August 15), and was considerably popular, especially within the drive-in theater circuit. It was released in Canada in September that year, and went on to become the country's highest-grossing horror film of 1980, also receiving Genie Award nominations for editing and for Curtis' performance. In spite of its moderate success, the film received generally unfavorable reviews from film critics.
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