Talk:Prom Night (2008 film)

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It's NOT a remake.

It says so on the DVD in one of the interviews. The only thing that each movie shares is the title. The director says it himself. Check up on that.

Wording

I'll fix some of the grammar in the synopsis if nobody minds "and stabs her profusely". Hilarious Apple-I-mage (talk) 23:54, 23 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Killing Donna?

The plot says "they didn't know that Fenton planned to kill them all," but Fenton only decided to kill Donna at the very end of the movie when she escaped from him in the closet. He wants to kill everybody around her so they can live together. Apparently whoever wrote that plot summary didn't comprehend the movie very well. 70.242.165.181 (talk) 13:58, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Leaked onto torrent sites?

Has it really? I've only seen fake copies of it on all of the BitTorrent sites that I have checked. (They say that a well-known person in the torrent community, aXXo, released it, but it actually requires you to download something and is just overall fake.) And even if it were true, would the torrent tidbit be suitable for Wikipedia? (note that I have no problem with torrents or illegal downloading) I have removed this for now, but if anyone has any input on why they feel it should be here, or if they've found a legitimate copy that has been leaked, please discuss.Ihatecrayons (talk) 17:44, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Production?

What the hell is that even talking about? Looks like we have someone bored with their own meaningless lives and decided to just mess with pages. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.255.253.8 (talk) 05:06, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

...If it's not a remake

Why is it tagged as so everywhere else? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.122.79.5 (talk) 22:52, 6 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It is a remake, but some people just don't want to admit it. For some reason, they think that calling it remake means it is bad so they don't want to use that term (one of the reasons the term "re-imagining" was made for other, similar remakes).

I don't think it's a remake. The only similarity between the movies seems to be that they both happen on prom night. The plots are totally different. Besides, lots of teen movies happen on prom night.

Definitely not a remake. --PureRED - Kyle Floyd (talk) 22:00, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I'm sorry that you don't see it that way. But it is a remake. When they decided to make the movie, the producers' intention was to remake the 1980 Prom Night, the script was originally written as a remake of Prom Night (although that may not have been J. S. Cardone's intention when he re-wrote the script), and the IMDb considers it a remake. Also, there are several articles in movie magazines and on movie websites which refer to it as a remake. Only as it got closer and closer to the film's release did people start to say that it wasn't a remake, seemingly only to distance themselves from the idea that all remakes are automatically bad. Think about Tim Burton's 2001 version of Planet of the Apes. It is unquestionably a remake, right? Well the only similarities between the original and the remake are the title and the basic situation (a man from our world visiting a planet ruled by sentient apes), other than these similarities the plots are very different and the films have several major differences. So, why is it people have no problem saying Planet of the Apes is a remake (despite the few similarities vs. the many differences) but have problems calling Prom Night a remake when it has a similar number of similarities and differences? —Preceding unsigned comment added by BigBang616 (talk • contribs) 17:25, 20 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Reception - Sunday Herald

A couple days ago it said the Sunday Herald gave the film a 2/5, but now it says 4/5. Is this an accurate change? Dannysk89 (talk) 21:10, 10 April 2008 (UTC)dannysk89[reply]

Teacher's name?

Who is 'Mr Fenton' who escaped from the mental asylum? The teacher? If so, why is his name given elsewhere as Ramsay? Are there two people? Does he take a fake name? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.111.216.160 (talk) 09:01, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

He killed a guy and used his identity--from what I've gathered. --PureRED - Kyle Floyd (talk) 22:02, 19 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sequel?

Is there any chance for a sequel? Rubixmike14 —Preceding comment was added at 01:03, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

the plot

deciding that the plot was overly detailed and that simply deleting some stuff wouldn't work, i dumped the entire section alltogther--Jakezing (talk) 02:36, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

How about a short summary of the film in the plot section? Possibly, in the same manner as they do when a movie is released on DVD? Not only that, it won't contain any spoilers.

Just a suggestion. What do you think? I could write it. Frschoonover (talk) 04:32, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I added a short plot summary rather than an overly long plot description with spoilers. I don't know if this is more appropriate or not, but it seems to be compared to an overly long plot description with spoilers. I hope that it's good enough to be on the article for this film. If not, than I tried.

Let me know what you think. Anything such as advice or comments are truly appreciated. 71.126.6.104 (talk) 18:12, 17 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently, someone has restored the entire plot with spoilers to the article. In my humble opinion, this actually makes the article look too huge and I think that the the short plot summary without spoilers is more appropriate. What do you guys here think? Frschoonover (talk) 13:56, 20 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'll have a crack at shortening it up after I've watched it fully. It's definitely too big and a smaller number of spoilers is OK. Farslayer (talk) 06:03, 23 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dumped it again.--Jakezing (talk) 13:31, 8 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Minor Vandalism

I just removed a little bit of minor vandalism that was left by another anonymous user. It was next to Iris Elba's name and I just removed that. Apparently, there are a lot of immature people out there who love to cause trouble by vandalizing on Wikipedia. I figured that it was the best that I could do. Frschoonover (talk) 18:21, 17 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]