Here we go again: more teenagers, another crazed killer, plus the usual quota of dark corridors, locked doors, idiot victims etc. If you havent seen the lame and forgettable 1980 original, it paired Jamie Lee Curtis with why not? Leslie Nielsen, so the people behind this remake sensibly ignore it and start over. Unfortunately, those people are Nelson McCormick and JS Cardone, the creative duo behind the Stepfather redux, so its still a lame and forgettable effort. All you need to know about the plot is that is that Donna (Brittany Snow) is preparing for her senior prom when teacher-turned-wacko Ramsey, who attacked her three years earlier, escapes from the booby hatch and comes after her pursued by some inept cops. So its 88 minutes of and-then-she-woke-up false scares and bimbos wandering off by themselves, plus theres 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.
Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'
