The "Scream" channel has been playing the "Prom Night" quadrology and last Sunday was part trois. From what I've read, numero uno was actually an intentional horror film, so no good. Part four also apparently tries to return to actual scariness, so I skipped that one too.
I don't quite know how it's supposed to work with bad movies and sequels. Sequels are expected to be bad, but a sequel to a bad movie is expected to be… good or bad? And if bad, then bad-bad, or good-bad? Luckily for me, I found this particular sequel to be good-bad.
I won't go through a detailed description of this film, since it wasn't quite as good as the second one, but enjoyable nonetheless. It did have some great lines though:
Alex: I think we have to set a few ground rules. Firstly, you have to stop killing people.
Mary Lou: Hi honey, welcome home.
Alex: I don't want any fucking pie!
Alex: I told you to stop killing people!
Mary Lou: But Alex, it wasn't a person… it was a guidance counselor.
Alex had buried all the bodies in the football field and about halfway through the movie, we see a big yellow truck that says "Bob's Sod" on the side, with the little tagline "we specialize in high school football fields!". And as lame as it was, it was still hilarious.
There was also a part near the beginning where over the PA they announced "chess club has been canceled, members are to report to the library and play with themselves". Again, uber lame, but it somehow worked. Whether they intended it to be funny in the unintentional way is another matter all together, and possibly something that can't even be achieved. I mean, you can't actually intend to make something unintentionally funny, right?
Reading the IMDB boards, I found someone who commented on the "superb dialogue, characters, and special effects" and I realized they actually meant it. Obviously not in the sense that people would judge normal films, because the scale is different for these types of movies. In that sense, the statement was completely true, and it just kind of blew my mind with its absolute truthfulness.
The cute guy from the second film returned, as he does in all the "Prom Night" films, albeit with a shorter and less cool role this time. He plays Larry, the police officer with about ten lines. Hey, wasn't that my exact role description in the short-lived "Plan 9" play? Which, by the way, wasn't all that good in a bad sense. Some people dig the 50s badness, but I much prefer the 70s/80s variety. I find 50s badness is too slow for my tastes.
I've found myself lately accepting a lot of things about myself that I previously didn't much like. My birthday, terrible terrible time. Last day of the year, I'm always younger than everyone else. But y'know, I now realize that's kind of cool, and I like it.
Speaking of being younger, my brother got two copies of his "Guitar World" magazine because his old/renewed subscriptions overlapped, and so he let me keep one, which just so happened to have Monsieur Edward Van Halen and his son Wolfgang on the cover. I was kind of torn with the Wolfgang thing, you know. I mean, he's younger than me! That makes me ooold! But then I think, well, I'm older than his son, so that means Eddie's fair game! (Whereas, of course, with other rock stars, their sons are all older than I am, which just makes the whole situation awkward).
But where was I? I've also accepted my unfortunately common name, because that means I have lots of songs about me. When I was on my search for said songs recently, my mom complained about not having any songs with her name in it. Nonsense, I say! There are songs about everyone! Naive little Jenny, who has never known a lack of Jenny songs, looked it up, and she was right.
But where did this whole spiel come from, you ask? Of course it's connected in some way, and today I'm feeling generous and I'll actually explain it. The "Prom Night" series are Canadian, you see, and they make me proud to be as well. It was much more obvious the origin of the series in this sequel with the "you ain't seen nothin' yet" line out of nowhere and the random rap song sampling "American Woman" (which was however a disgrace otherwise — the rap song I mean).
Canada makes some pretty kickass TV shows and movies. Sure, they're quirky, and most people won't like them. But most people are stupid, and so, that makes me right, as always.