Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (1987)

Wonderful Movie

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Great Film overall

As Good As It Gets

Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night 2: Directed by Bruce Pittman and written by Ron Oliver. The original Prom Night was a classic slasher that was part of the original run of horror films where Jaime Lee Curtis was front and center. Her main scream queen phase. It was a tough sit for me. It had an odd hazy look about it almost like they rubbed bacon grease on the camera lens. It was honestly very odd. But the sequel is a completely different animal all together. This movie comes after the success of the Elm Street movies. They make the villain of this movie, Mary Lou into a supernatural villain much in the vein of Freddy Krueger in Freddy's Revenge. Mary Lou after jilting her date for a cooler kid to get busy with. He gets revenge on her by setting her on fire and killing her. 30 years later the demonic version of Mary Lou is trying to find her way back to the world through a young religious girl. The one thing right off the bat to mention is this is definitely not a scary movie. I'm not entirely sure it's even trying to be scary. It's over the top in a fun way. Mary Lou is in a corporeal state for the majority of the film. The deaths are wild and over the top. A stalking sequence in a girls locker room and shower with both characters completely nude. Even with this weird movie, this came out of left field. But then it comes to the eventual prom scene and this honestly felt like the ending of Carrie. It didn't have all the same details mind you. The mechanics were similar and the feeling was similar as well but the nuance was different. It does get wild and crazy in parts and Michael Ironside is pretty good in this but he's good in most of anything he does. This is the definition of a whatever movie. It's fine mostly. It's not scary. It's not funny. It doesn't offend your sensibility cinematically. I give this movie a C.

The name-only sequel to 1980's "Prom Night" is a tiresome exercise in schlock horror, taking cues from the "Elm Street" movies, "Carrie", and I guess, "The Exorcist", too.It's not as good, or anywhere near as interesting, as those movies.It's about a repressed, goody-two-shoes girl from a religious family ("Carrie") who discovers the dress of some slut from 1957 and, putting it on, is possessed by her spirit ("The Exorcist"). She has a number of scary hallucinations that cause rocking horses to grow teeth and make everything look dirty, like any of the dream sequences in the Elm Street movies. She starts behaving badly, though not interestingly, and the movie culminates in some mayhem at the titular "Prom Night" ("Carrie" again).The movie is really nothing you haven't seen before. The only horror movie it doesn't crib from is, well, the one it's named after! It's not even really a slasher.

but, it's a REALLY bad "Carrie" knock-off......No junk words here....I saw, even in the original (I watched both movies tonight) the similarities between "Carrie" and both of these movies. As close as the Jamie Lee Curtis movie was, without being so much a bad knock off, this one was even WORSE. I bought this movie at WalMart in a "10 Big Box of Horror" for $5. I decided I wasn't going to lose because I'd seen 2 of the 10 anyway...so, I decided to get it as my own stocking stuffer. But, being a Stephen King fan, I never realized how much of a knock off this and the first on was back when I was a kid, seeing the first on in the theater because Ms. Curtis was in "Halloween"..I LOVED her!

Mary Lou is a promiscuous teenager who gleefully indulges in boys, sex, and booze. On Prom Night in 1957, she goes too far by leaving her boyfriend, Billy Nordham hanging to have sex with another guy. Billy decides to get revenge and kills her. 30 years later, Bill Nordham is now the principle of Hamilton High. Mary Lou is awakened by a trunk in the basement and possesses Vicki Carpenter. Bill must face his traumatic past before it's too late. I'm gonna get this out of the way right now! I loved this movie. It's not a great film by any means, but it's great fun! It goes all out to ensure the viewer has a good time, and I'd say it exceeded expectations in a pretty big way. This movie is NOTHING like the first one. It's full on fantasy, resembling a Nightmare on Elm Street movie more than anything else. Wait until you see Vicki being attacked in the bedroom! (That creepy unicorn, brr) I really enjoyed the different approach from the first one, and it was way more fun as a result. This movie wants you to have a good time, everything else is secondary. There isn't much gore, but we do get some light lesbianism in the shower! Even a weird incest scene! A newly pregnant student gets killed as well (Ouch! God, I miss the 80's!) I was really impressed by the creativity and the guts the director, Bruce Pittman had. The acting is surprisingly above average for the most part. Wendy Lyon is excellent as our heroine. She's sympathetic, vulnerable, even a little creepy when she goes completely in Mary Lou mode. Lisa Schrage is a blast as Mary Lou. I had no sympathy for her being killed, because she's so unsympathetic. But I think they intended it to be that way. Michael Ironside phones it in here. I hate to say it, but he looked visibly unsure on what to do here. This is clearly a paycheck role! There were only brief flourishes of what makes him so great. Louis Ferreira is OK as Vicki's love interest. He didn't embarrass himself and held his own. The ending is similar to Nightmare on Elm Street 2 in some ways. I dug it and even clapped a little bit. I dig the false happy ending if it's done correctlyWhere is the love for this movie? It's unabashedly corny, and I loved every minute of it. It represents everything I adored about the 80's! Where you at, Mary Lou? I'll go on a blind date with you any day!7/10