Synopsis
You Can't Keep a Bad Girl Down!
When Hamilton High’s Prom Queen of 1957, Mary Lou Maloney is killed by her jilted boyfriend, she comes back for revenge thirty years later.
1987 Directed by Bruce Pittman
When Hamilton High’s Prom Queen of 1957, Mary Lou Maloney is killed by her jilted boyfriend, she comes back for revenge thirty years later.
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The Haunting of Hamilton High. A Carrie meets Elm Street supernatural slasher jam—complete with a Night of the Creeps worthy 1950’s intro with funeral pyre prom queen, a confessional booth massacre, possessed horny tongued nightmare rocking chair, death by locker crushing, a touchy feely chalkboard that turns into an immersive whirlpool, father daughter makeout scene, Mary Lou immerging out of a bullet hole and going full Carrie retro demon during the gooey effect filled finale, AND Michael Ironside.
I love this movie and the specific vibes at play here—late 80’s post elm street ‘nightmare feddy’ fun that’s paced well with lots of the pizazz that a few of those later sequels from movies it’s riffing on lack. Solid kills, great effects... all the ingredients I dig.…
Sweet Mary Lou Maloney. All she wanted was to be Prom Queen. She got her wish, but she also burned to a crisp. Now, it's 30 years later. Same high school, and it's prom time. Here we meet Vicki Carpenter. She's a natural blonde, innocent, soft-spoken, has an understanding boyfriend, and is a candidate for Prom Queen. What happens when Vicki accidentally wakes up the ghost of Mary Lou? Well, let's just say, it's The Exorcist meets A Nightmare on Elm Street meets Degrassi High meets Carrie meets Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday meets Canadian horror wackiness.
There's no need to watch the original, to fully enjoy. Sure it's Prom Night II, but with almost zero connections. Although,…
Definitely a case of the sequel being better than the original. You know, for when you have those Scream 2 style superior sequel discussions with your friends. I do love the first one because of JLC and the whole disco dance scene, but it's also a little boring at times which is a problem this sequel does absolutely NOT have!
It's a little bit Carrie meets The Exorcist with a main character who is possessed by the spirit of a murdered prom queen, it's a little bit Nightmare on Elm Street with a really fun scene where our final girl falls into a chalk board that becomes water and she's swimming around with the letters that were written on the…
This is a Carrie spoof comedy, and there’s nothing anyone can say or do to convince me otherwise.
But seriously, this was such a fun time. Initially, it starts out as any stale, poorly acted teen drama, but as our title character properly possesses our other lead girl things take on a life of their own. It goes from 1 to 11 in a matter of seconds with pony toys sucking fingers, incest, sexy locker scenes culminating in one of the coolest death scenes from the 80s horror genre, and so much more.
In general, the performances are not great, but Wendy Lyon is awesome as our poor possessed chick, Vicki Carpenter, and you can tell she's having a blast,…
If anyone's looking to introduce their friends to the world of 80's horror "Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II" would be a great place to start. This movie has it all. You want blood? Got it! You want boobs? They got ya (un)covered. How about some wild hairstyles, outfits and makeup? It's here in spades. Plus, the story is a bundle of campy fun.
If you take "Carrie", "A Nightmare on Elm Street" and "Poltergeist" and stuck them in a blender, you'd probably get something similar to this. Despite its obvious influences, "Hello Mary Lou" has a vibe and pulse of its own.
This film is a fucking revelation, i can't believe its taken me this long to watch it. Mary Lou is an inspiration, from that first scene I was like yep, I am down for this fucking film AND IT DID NOT LET UP UNTIL THE END so much fun like honestly no matter what kind of horror you like I bet you'll find something in this to love.
The only 80s movie bold enough to say "what if the 50s were actually NOT as nice and idyllic as all the other pop culture of this decade says?"
I can't believe I didn't know this existed until last week. It rules.
A prime example of post elm street fun. This movie gets better everytime I watch it and tbh I like this better than most elm street sequels.
Okay, no one told me this would have an iconic kill in it involving gratuitous nudity and "Tutti Frutti" lyrics in a locker room. This should have launched a thousand sequels, a few book spinoffs, and a TV series. This gets horror-comedy right: the flippant tone and off-kilter humor heightens the violence and menace rather than detracts or distracts from it. It's wielded by the killer to make her seem unpredictable, dangerous, rather than wielded by the filmmakers to insert jarring "laughs" into a gorefest. While this loses some of its power at the end - it just keeps going - it still manages to be a wild, intense, bizarre fucking slasher that has a lot of fun.
Wacky supernatural shennanigans are at an all time high in this ambitious and superior sequel to Prom Night. This is 80s Canadian horror at its finest. A surreal trip through demented dream logic that results in one of the best Nightmare on Elm St influenced films of the 80s.
All the best 80s horror ingredients are here. Cheesy acting, gory kills, awesome practical FX, low budget hazey atmosphere and lots of WTF moments. The evil possessed rocking horse and guy getting zapped by his computer are some of the highlights. And yes theres low budget blue electricity bolts! The lead actress gives a perfectly weird and convincing performance that makes her the perfect possessed killing machine. You never quite know…
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Sometimes the sequels blow the original out of the water.
Ok, this isn't really a sequel. It has nothing to do with the original that is aggressively mediocre. This one is just classic. "Vicky doesn't live here anymore." That one line is enough to keep this movie above 3 stars.
Plus this movie does not really worry about some contrived twist. Half way through the movie we know who the villain is, what she is doing, and why.
Plus possessions are the one form of ghost movie I actually find unnerving. Being out of control of your own body is something I really find scary.
Also it is super sleazy which adds to some fun value.
This may not be a good sequel to Prom Night, but by far is it a better movie. This is my first viewing and I am sad it took me this long to watch it.
Mary Monday
Rewatch Review
I have to say I have always enjoyed this second film better than the first(Sorry Jamie Lee Curtis) and not for the young Lisa Schrage running around a locker room in her complete birthday suit(but is a treat for anyone that is interested) but for me it is how the kills were more entertaining and how scenes of this film felt like it was paying homage to great horror movies before it, also I can't forget to mention the creepy score.
Although like most 80's horror this film was not shy with it's abundance of cheese but still a fun and entertaining time looking back into the 80's horror.
6.7/10
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