Prom Night - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Prom Night or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Prom Night

[melinda]

Anne-Marie Martin's final appearance where she was billed as Eddie Benton.

[lonnie]

Prom Night was filmed over twenty-four days in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from August 7 to September 13, 1979. The Don Mills Collegiate Institute served as the main school location, while the Langstaff Jail Farm in Richmond Hill was used for the abandoned building featured prominently in the movie's beginning.

[nora]

The shots of the killer tearing the photos out of the yearbook were shot by producer Peter R. Simpson after principal shooting on the movie had wrapped.

[terry]

According to "The Horrors of Hamilton High", a documentary about the making of Prom Night, Eve Plumb was all set to play Kim. At the last minute, Jamie Lee Curtis' people expressed an interest and Eve was replaced.

[tammy]

When Ms. Benson says to Mr. Weller at the prom "I believe this is OUR dance, Monty", he was in the company of Adele Cooper, the substitute secretary for Principal Hammond. She is a character whose scenes were removed from the theatrical version (but returned to the TV version) of the movie.

[maureen]

When the raspy voiced caller in the room dials the residences of Jude, Kelly, Nick and Wendy respectively, the area code on the rotary phone begins with 614. Although the movie was shot in Toronto, Canada, this area code is for Central Ohio.

[ethel]

Composer Paul Zaza wrote all the disco songs in only five days.

[manuel]

Michael Tough keeps the mask that he wears in the movie.

[francisco]

Director Paul Lynch originally conceived a movie about a psychotic gynecologist to cash in on Halloween (1978), but upon being told that such a movie would be distasteful, retooled it into this movie.

[manuel]

Gene Siskel called this a watered down version of Halloween crossed with Carrie. Another critic called it a combination of Friday the 13th and Saturday Night Fever.

[sandra]

The main plot about four children committing a horrible sin and all swearing to secrecy only to be stalked years later by a vengeful killer would later be used as the plot for I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997).

[ken]

This was much more artfully made then Friday the 13th (1980), (which came out the same year and was a similar holiday themed slasher movie riding on the coattails of Halloween (1978) with a revenge story at its core). But for some reason Friday the 13th was a phenomenon, and while this was a hit, and it got better reviews, it did not have the same impact.

[mathew]

Both Jamie Lee Curtis and Leslie Nielsen starred with Adrienne Barbeau in two separate horror movies. Curtis in The Fog (1980), the same year as this movie and Nielsen in Creepshow (1982). But neither shared scenes with Barbeau.

[gabriel]

The official soundtrack CD for this film was released in June, 2019.

[victoria]

Eve Plumb originally auditioned for the role of Kim Hammond.

[morris]

There were deleted scenes of Leslie Nielsen talking morosely about his daughter's death to a doctor, and also scenes of him chopping wood, which were meant to point him out as a suspect. There were also deleted scenes with a psychiatrist informing Leslie Nielsen that his wife has serious problems, not just depression over his daughter's death, and another scene with her looking at a picture of Robin on the wall surrounded by flowers, which were meant to make Mrs. Hammond look like a suspect. There was also a scene with Leslie Nielsen speaking to a psychiatrist about Robin's death and its impact on Kim, how she gets depressed from time to time; and how Robin and Alex were twins, but Alex doesn't remember the death at all.

[jessie]

In the series episode Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Prom (1999). One of the movies that Tucker Wells used to train the Hellhounds to attack people wearing formal wear is Prom Night.

[dustin]

According to Paul Zaza, the prom scene was shot with actual disco hits that the production company later realized they could not afford the rights to. This gave Zaza a week and a half to create similar, original disco songs for this movie that were close, but not so close, that they could be sued.

[janice]

Movie debuts of Jeff Wincott and Mary Beth Rubens.