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Prom Night (2008)

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Prom Night is a Slasher Movie from the year 2008 starring Brittany Snow, Idris Elba, Scott Porter, Johnathon Schaech, and James Ransone. It is an extremely loose remake of the 1980 film with the same name.It is about an ex-teacher named Fenton, who is murderously obsessed with one of his students, played by Brittany Snow. Managing to escape from the police, he's prepared and determined to get to her at any cost during her senior prom.
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Offscreen Teleportation: Fenton is one slippery devil, not only managing to elude the police this way several times even though they're watching all the hotel's exits for him, but somehow also managing to "teleport" a couple of his victims' corpses away to conceal them from his other soon-to-be victims.
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The Sociopath
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The Sociopath: Fenton has absolutely no remorse for killing Donna's family and friends, nor does he care that she doesn't love him one bit. All he sees in Donna is something to be owned by him and him alone.
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Detective Winn, the lead detective for Fenton's case, curses his superiors for not bothering to warn him that Fenton escaped three days ago.
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Alpha Bitch
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Alpha Bitch: Crissy, who has been Donna and Lisa's nemesis forever. According to rumor she went $10,000 over budget on organizing the prom and her father had to write a check to cover it. A deleted scene has her delivering a rant to her Girl Posse about how the school owes her the honor of Prom Queen.
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Nephewism: Donna's aunt and uncle took over raising her after Fenton killed her parents.
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Girl Posse: The blonde Alpha Bitch Crissy has a pair of brunette side girls who follow her everywhere.
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Death of a Child: Along with her parents getting killed, Donna's little brother got knifed as well (they even show his body).
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Past Experience Nightmare
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Past Experience Nightmare: The film opens with a flashback to when Donna found her family murdered.
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Ax-Crazy
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Ax-Crazy: Fenton is a particularly more sinister and understated portrayal than the norm. In the Cold Open, he was shown yelling and threatening Donna's mother, but on the titular prom night, he calmly and systematically knocks off everyone who gets in his way, one by one. At one point, he even casually asks one of his victims "Why the rush?" as she's fleeing.
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Evil Teacher
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Evil Teacher: Fenton was seemingly a normal teacher before becoming obsessed with Donna. First he stalked her after getting fired before later trying to kill everyone else in her life to have her all to himself.
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Mugged for Disguise: Fenton escapes from the hotel by donning the uniform of the bellhop he murdered and slipping out during the evacuation.
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Murder the Hypotenuse: Fenton hopes that with everyone out of Donna's life, she can finally accept him.
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The local police know the escaped killer is obsessed with one single person and though they discreetly post some guys at the prom to keep an eye on her, they elect not to tell her they're watching out for her escaped assailant because it would... ruin her prom night. More competent police would have hustled her to a more secure location immediately, no matter how important the event.
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"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: Winn notes that Fenton wouldn't be alive to escape and murder Donna's friends if the jury at his trial didn't believe him not guilty by insanity.
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Psycho Knife Nut: The psychotic stalker Fenton uses a knife as his main weapon.
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Would Hurt a Child: Among Fenton's many victims is Donna's kid brother.
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Near the end of the film, the head detective is actually shown mentally kicking himself at one point when he realizes that he let the killer walk right past him out the hotel's front door, right before the SWAT team storms the place in his Paper-Thin Disguise of a uniform he stole from one of the employees he murdered. Sure, they do finally shoot Fenton dead, but by then, he's killed a lot of Donna's closest friends..
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Break the Cutie: Donna. First her family are murdered, then all her friends, and then her boyfriend.
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Downer Ending: Even though Fenton is killed at the end, Donna's friends and boyfriend are dead and Donna is more traumatized than before.
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Vehicle Vanish: Donna sees Fenton reflected in the beauty salon mirror. As she turns around, a fast-moving bus passes between him and the salon and he vanishes.
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Prom Wrecker: While it's a remake of the original 1980 film, in this case, the perpetrator is Mr. Fenton, who attacks at Donna's senior prom.
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Police Are Useless: Jesus Christ, it's one screw up after another with the cops in this film. The local police know the escaped killer is obsessed with one single person and though they discreetly post some guys at the prom to keep an eye on her, they elect not to tell her they're watching out for her escaped assailant because it would... ruin her prom night. More competent police would have hustled her to a more secure location immediately, no matter how important the event. Detective Winn, the lead detective for Fenton's case, curses his superiors for not bothering to warn him that Fenton escaped three days ago. Near the end of the film, the head detective is actually shown mentally kicking himself at one point when he realizes that he let the killer walk right past him out the hotel's front door, right before the SWAT team storms the place in his Paper-Thin Disguise of a uniform he stole from one of the employees he murdered. Sure, they do finally shoot Fenton dead, but by then, he's killed a lot of Donna's closest friends..
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No Medication for Me
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No Medication for Me: Donna stops taking her anti-anxiety medication a week before prom night because she doesn't want to feel numb during prom. This proves to be an unwise decision.
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Giving Them the Strip
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Giving Them the Strip: When Lisa is being chased by Fenton on the construction level, he steps on the hem of her dress to prevent her from running. Lisa escapes by just running, tearing off the lower part of her skirt in the process.
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Slashed Throat: Lisa, Bobby, and Detective Nash have their throats slashed by Fenton.
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Developing Doomed Characters: Done here to keep them from all being mere Monster Munch. In particular, one of the boys is shown to be a bit dickish, but not at all enough to deserve being killed for it.
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Action Dress Rip: Combined with Giving Them the Strip. When Fenton steps on the hem of Lisa's dress, she escapes by running so the bottom of her dress rips off.
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Stalker with a Crush: After Fenton first got fired from teaching after harassing Donna at school, he became a full time stalker before her family got a restraining order against him.
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Asshole Victim: Unusually averted in Crissy's case.
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Invincible Villain: Fenton.Coupled with everyone else in the movie being as dumb as a sack of bricks, and despite the fact he's pretty much going out of his way to draw attention to himself, he's always somehow in the right place at the right time to murder someone and/or avoid being caught.
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Karmic Death
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Karmic Death: Fenton is gunned down by the cop who arrested him after his first string of murders who has wanted him dead for years.
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Black Dude Dies First: Averted. Out of the six main teens, the only two to survive are the Final Girl and the black guy. Even her Love Interest dies.
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Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Before they leave to notify Donna's aunt & uncle of Fenton's escape, Detective Winn tells his partner Nash he'd thought the overwhelming evidence they'd brought against the guy for murdering Donna's entire family would convince the jury to give send him to Death Row, but the jury decided imprisonment in a maximum-security asylum for the criminally insane was a better idea. The jury not punishing him as he deserved turns into one of the first dominoes to fall that later leads to Fenton's second murder spree years later.
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13 Is Unlucky: Fenton claims 13 victims throughout the film.
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Peekaboo Corpse: Happens twice to Detective Winn. First when Michael's corpse falls out of the closet while he searches the suite, and later when he finds the bellhop's corpse in the air vent.
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Final Girl
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Final Girl: Donna is the sole surviving girl from her friend group after that fateful prom night.
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Reactive Continuous Scream
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Reactive Continuous Scream: Donna opens the door and is startled by Claire who was about to open it from the other side. She screams, which causes Claire to scream.
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Family Extermination
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Family Extermination: The film opens with a flashback to Donna finding her family murdered by her teacher.
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Nothing Is Scarier
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Nothing Is Scarier: Done several times to the audience in a number of subversions of the Peek-a-Boo Corpse. We know (though the characters don't) about several of the killer's victims, and the film keeps leading us to expect one of the remaining cast to stumble across one of the corpses, only to have them not stumble across it when it was there just a minute ago.
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No Ending: After the cops shoot Fenton, there's nothing but a flashback to the principal characters enjoying themselves at the prom for the credits. We get nothing showing what became of the survivors afterward, no final assessment of the police who handled (or mishandled) this case, nothing.
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