15 Horror Films That Prove Hollywood Hates You

15. Prom Night (2008)

If you haven’t seen the 1980 original, it was the first slasher movie to pair Jamie Lee Curtis with Leslie Nielsen (why not?), so the people behind this remake sensibly ignore it and start over. Unfortunately, those people are Nelson McCormick and JS Cardone, the ‘creative’ duo who also remade The Stepfather very badly.

Donna (Brittany Snow) is preparing for her senior prom when her former teacher, who attacked her three years earlier, escapes from the nut house and comes after her pursued by some inept cops. So it’s 88 minutes of and-then-she-woke-up false scares and bimbos wandering off by themselves, plus there’s a pure-evil villain who changes his appearance by shaving and wearing a baseball cap, which of course allows him to evade capture until the climax.

And that’s pretty much all that can be said about this interchangeable, by-the-numbers time-waster. The only movie in the franchise worth watching is Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (1987) with Wendy Lyon, who in the best scene tries to make out with a cheerleader in the shower. For reasons of plot, you understand.