Well, the jump scares have all been exhausted to death and the last boutonniere has withered away, and now, as this past weekend’s dust settles, the PROM NIGHT remake sits atop of the box office with a large $22.7 million draw (See The Arrow’s scathing review here). Someone please escape from a mental hospital, put on a scary baseball cap, and kill me. Because studios now have another reason to bypass on mainstream R-rated horror AND worst of all… we may be in for PROM NIGHT 2!!!!!
I’m sorry to be calling this to your attention, but the issue has already been considered. In an interview with Crave, the beautiful, but horror-movie-challenged Brittany Snow spoke on the possibility of suiting up in her prom dress for another PG-13 outing: “I think Prom Night 2 would be, if it was the same people doing it, it would be so much fun. I mean, I’ve had such a really great experience working with (diretor) Nelson (McCormick) and the cast and Johnathon (Schaech) and getting to do a part like this that I think it would be really fun. The only problem is who is going to be in Prom Night 2? I’m not going to let you know who survives and who doesn’t, but it’s not going to be the same people, all of them. That would be terrible. I know that SCREAM 2, SCREAM 3, and I’LL ALWAYS KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER 10, they’re always really fun to me, and so I would be very lucky to be a part of something, if it was that successful. I think it’s very important in a teenager’s life to have a cool horror movie to relate to and kind of grow up with. I did, so it would be very cool to be a part of.”
I agree with you, Brittany, however the horror movies that you grew up with were all rated R. And I’m going to go right out and say that PROM NIGHT is NOT a cool horror movie deserving of a franchise. And when the tweens that paid money to see this flick do in fact grow up, they’ll quickly realize the error of their ways. So please, Ms. Snow, go back to making silly teen comedies where you prance around in your underwear (like the one below). Forget about going back to the PROM (besides, weren’t you a senior anyway?).
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