Prom Night (1980 film)

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Prom Night is a 1980 Canadian horror slasher film directed by Paul Lynch, from a screenplay by William Gray and story by Robert Guza Jr.. Starring Leslie Nielsen and Jamie Lee Curtis, the film follows four high school seniors who are targeted at their prom by a masked killer whom is seeking vengeance for the accidental death of a young girl six years earlier. Prom Night was released in the United States on July 18, 1980, by Embassy Pictures. The film's cast also includes Casey Stevens, Eddie Benton, Mary Beth Rubens, Michael Tough, Robert A. Silverman, and Antoinette Bower. Paul Lynch began developing Prom Night after a meeting with Irwin Yablans, producer of Halloween (1978), who suggested he make a horror film similarly centered around a holiday. Instead, William Gray wrote a screenplay adapted from a revenge-themed story by Robert Guza Jr. (an acquaintance of Lynch), using a school prom as its setting. Prom Night was filmed in late 1979 in Toronto, Canada. The film was a significant...

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