![]() ![]() Kim and Wendy, the lead bitch, feud over Nick, who was one of those responsible for Robin's death, and I honestly could not have cared less about any of this. It's the lead-up to and preparation of the prom itself. It's like The Secret Life of the American Teenager except it's got some horror at the end there. Because, essentially, that's all this is. ![]() And, really, that's the biggest problem, these characters are just so fucking boring to make it exciting to watch their boring lives leading up until prom. If, perhaps, there was a little more intrigue behind who was responsible then, maybe, the rest of the movie prior to the prom night massacre would not have been such a slog to get through. It doesn't take great perception, you just needed to have watched more than one movie in your life to immediately come to the same conclusion. So that makes the reveal incredibly unsatisfying because, again, you know who it is from the start. But, again, there was never any doubt in my mind that it was the person that it ended up being. They establish four different people as the potential killer, Kim, Alex (Robin's siblings), Mr. The problem comes in the fact that you immediately know who the masked killer is. The problem with the movie is the fact that it focuses on this mystery as to who is the masked killer that's coming after the teens that caused the death of this young girl, a death that they then kept hidden, six years prior to the events of prom. This movie, naturally, doesn't have a central character that's even 10% as interesting as Carrie was. Carrie is a person that just wants to belong, she just wants to be normal and, at every turn, the assholes at school and even her own mother constantly torture her. The thing about Carrie, though, is that Carrie herself is a fascinating character and the movie does an excellent job at building her up to be this ostracized and, unfairly, maligned individual. The big prom night climax being among them and the lead bitch (along with her dimwitted "boyfriend") also attempting to play a prank on our heroines that coincides with prom. It doesn't help that I watched Carrie last year, which was a fucking GREAT horror movie, and it's got some similarities. It's $5, what's the worst that could happen, right? Now that I have watched the movie, however, I'm glad that I didn't spend the money on it because, let me tell you, this movie is a little bit disappointing. ![]() I remember seeing this movie for $5 at Walmart one time and I thought about buying it. So it's an interesting movie to watch because of that, it's the last remnants of the 70s, before the 80s really took over. This was just before the 80s took whatever shape it was gonna take with the neon and the synth and the pop music. Bringing us to this movie, however, is an interesting time capsule, given that this movie, released in 1980, is still very much 70s inspired with the disco music and the disco-themed prom. Personally, I enjoyed it because I got to spend time with my friends and we got to have fun. But, again, the point is that there's not that stigma about not going because it's not cool. That's neither here nor there, I suppose. Actually, that one person was really the most annoying person I ever went to school with and, even then, I don't think we took any classes together. Not to suggest that we were all friends, because we weren't, and I can remember ONE person being really fucking annoying about wanting as many tickets for her family to attend the prom as she could get. In my case, and in the case of almost every grade, there were just two classes with, at the most, 30 students in each class. ![]() At least the school I went to, we were a smaller group than what you see in the U.S, where it's like 200 students per senior class. I don't think there's that stigma here that going to prom, for the outcasts, is something that's cool to avoid. I don't think prom has ever been as big a deal where I live as it seems to be in the United States, or, at least, how the movies make them out to be. ![]()
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