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Meagan and
her boyfriend, Mark, are going on a romantic
weekend together with another couple. Mark's parents
own a house in the middle of nowhere and the four
teens have decided that it's the perfect place to
spend their weekend. What they don't know is that
a psychotic priest is all ready there, waiting to
kill them for the sins that they've committed.
After two supernatural sequels, the Prom Night
franchise returned to the slasher genre with this
underrated DTV sequel. While all of the Prom Night
sequels are relatively free-standing, Prom Night 4
is the one that has the least connection with the
rest of the franchise. It doesn't even involve a
prom (unless you count the one in the opening scene).
Nevertheless, I still think that this is the most
entertaining one of all the sequels (I'm sure many
of you will disagree with me on that though).
The plot is pretty unoriginal and revolves around
four teens who go to a house in the middle of nowhere
for a weekend get-away. Our villain is a psychotic
priest who has just escaped from the basement of a
church where he was deliberately put in a coma
for several years. Apparently he's possessed by the
devil or something and is determined to rid the
world of slutty teenagers. Sure, it's ridiculous
and the killer priest doesn't look very scary, but
it's so entertaining that this movie has become one
of my favourite guilty pleasures.
Prom Night 4 is a pretty cheesy slasher flick which
hits more than one bump on the road. The acting is
average at best and you even get to see the boom
in the right corner once. Either way, things like
that are easy to overcome when we have a psychotic
priest stalking slutty teenagers. It's obviously not
a movie for everyone, and you can't take it too
seriously, but it is a whole lot of fun if you give
it a chance and don't expect too much from it.
Had this been released as a stand-alone movie,
I think slasher fans would have respected it a whole
lot more. I mean, the concept is pretty good and
you can't say that it's poorly executed because it
definitely has a good pace. Don't believe everything
you've heard about this underrated sequel, give it
a chance and you might end up enjoying it. I sure did.
We get a slit throat and some blood splatter, not
really a lot of gore to be found here.
The choir music is very effective as well as the
church organs. The pop music is about as fresh as
the milk in my fridge though and definitely had a
short expiration date.
Silly slasher sequel which hasn't got anything to
do with a prom. Would probably have worked better
as a free-standing movie, but if you take it for
what it is, you might end up enjoying it. It has
become one of my favourite guilty pleasures over
the years so I suggest that you check it out.
Review By: AnthroFred
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