Home Media
Prom Night has had an inconsistent release history on home video. It was originally released on VHS in 1981 by MCA Universal in North America, at the beginnings of home video popularity, despite the film's theatrical distribution by Avco-Embassy. In 1997, Anchor Bay Entertainment re-released the film on VHS, in both standard and "collector's" editions. It was then released on DVD by Anchor Bay on February 18, 1998 with a re-mastered widescreen transfer, and was one of the company's first DVD releases. By 2000, Anchor Bay's DVD release had gone out of print and became a rarity among film fans.
It was released again to DVD in Canada by Alliance Atlantis in March 2004, but was sourced from an extremely dark, low-quality VHS transfer, which resulted in some of the film's darker scenes being nearly illegible; this transfer was also used for Platinum Disc's full-screen DVD edition of the movie for the US, and has turned up in a couple horror movie collections as well. In September 2007, Echo Bridge Home Entertainment re-released the film on DVD in the US in a completely re-mastered print from a PAL source, which was given an uncorrected transfer to NTSC. Due to the uncorrected transfer, the film is slightly "sped up", which, though mostly unnoticeable to the naked eye, reduced the film's run time by several minutes.
There is currently an online petition circulating around various social media websites asking Echo Bridge to release the licensing rights to a distribution company that would treat Prom Night with more respect.
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