Prom Night Box Office

A while back I knocked the notion that 1980's PROM NIGHT was receiving the re-make treatment. While I was not a huge fan of the original PROM NIGHT I did watch the video a dozen or so times in 1984 when I got a copy of it on VHS. It wasn't a bad film, but it was definitely a "generic" slasher film that owed much of its popularity to the tremendous television advertisements that made the film sound like the scariest film ever made.

So, I thought the idea for a remake was kind of silly.

Well, the box office receipts for the new PROM NIGHT as of 4/14 are $21.5 million. That constitutes a HUGE box office hit for such a low budget film released during early spring. I haven't seen the film yet but I will be checking it out soon. A review will, of course, follow.