smatysia First, this film has zero relationship with the 1980 movie "Prom Night". It has its pluses. Much of the acting is pretty good. Some of the dialog is good. Some of the effects are good for the Eighties, some not so good. I thought it was going to be a slasher movie, but it isn't, it goes supernatural pretty quick. Wendy Lyon was pretty good, and looked awesome. But she is among the many actors who seem a bit old for high school. Overall, it is OK, just barely.

punisherversion1 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.

TheBlueHairedLawyer While this film still provides great entertainment and a creepy plot, it's not very original. I was hoping it would be like Prom Night from 1980 but it was just like Carrie mixed with Demon Witch Child, had bad acting, unmemorable soundtrack and the scenes jumped around a lot. It was the basic "shy nobody girl goes crazy and destroys the school" plot, only this time it wasn't on her own will. It was worth watching but I've seen better movies, if you want a really good classic slasher film try My Bloody Valentine (1981) or Sleepaway Camp (1983). Hello Mary Lou is good but it doesn't deliver, there's no nicer way to put it. It does have that rocking horse scene, though, that was pretty creepy.

Mark Honhorst "Hello Mary Lou"... concerns a girl who finds herself possessed by the vengeful spirit of a deceased prom Queen.This was a surprisingly spooky and nifty little horror flick by my standards. It's not exactly the best movie ever made, but I'll get to that in a minute. The ultimate strong points of this film are most definitely the special effects and it's decent writing . The special effects are top notch, and the stunningly original ideas behind them make them even more impressive. We get a creepy as all get out rocking horse which springs to life, a chalk board which becomes a pool, a locker which squishes some poor girl, some really good burn makeup, and much more. While some of the effects seem similar to another popular slasher series of that time (Nightmare on Elm Street), they are still very good in their own right. The plot and storyline, while a little too "Carrie"-esque, do move along quite well. It was quite interesting to see Vicki's slow transformation from average school girl to insane demon, and the kills which get thrown in are less than routine (see the locker death I mentioned above). Earlier I said this wasn't exactly the best movie ever made. I have my reasons. Mostly it's due to the acting. While it was interesting to see Vicki become Mary Lou, Wendy Lyon's performance just becomes more and more over the top as we go along, and builds up to an absolutely ridiculous, "Places to go, people to kill" answering machine message. No one else's performance was much to write home about either. Another beef- Mary Lou's spirit just isn't that scary. She's still a rebellious and "loose" teenage girl, and while that actually makes sense for this film, it was still more campy than scary to me. Overall, it's a very effective and chilling mini masterpiece of a horror film. It's underrated, probably due to it's lame title and it's odd association with a less than stellar slasher film from seven years earlier(which makes me wonder why they chose to call it a sequel at all. It has practically nothing to do with the original, and by 1987, "Prom Night" must've already been old news; it's not like there could've been legions of fans clamoring for even an in name only sequel or anything, but what do I know?) Lord knows that's why I had avoided it for so long. But give it a shot, if you're into an unusual slasher with great, surrealistic effects and a little originality to boot.