Prom Night 2 - Hello Mary Lou
by Bruce Pittman
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Director: Bruce PittmanPrimary Contributor: Justin Louis
Primary Contributor: Michael Ironside
Primary Contributor: Lisa Schrage
Primary Contributor: Wendy Lyon
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Color, Widescreen
Running Time: 94 unknown-units
Published: 1987
Movie Reviews of Prom Night 2 - Hello Mary Lou
Movie Review: If Only My Prom Was That Exciting...
Summary: 5 Stars
Released 7 (!!!) years after the original Prom Night, "Hello Mary-Lou" is a very well made film and (in my opinion) the last GOOD Prom Night movie (yes, I'm counting the 2008 remake 'cause it's gonna suck). Though it doesn't directly relate to the first Prom Night, it DOES take place at the same high school "Hamilton High" (same as the other two movies in the series).
This film is awesome because:
The Makers of this film took their time, and set a very good tone w/ pacing, and how they set up the shots. The High School and Church is always looming over the characters (repeated in Prom Night 3/4). The designs of the school, Prom and the "hell school" that Vicky sees is amazing. I remember being scared to death when I was little of the dead lunch lady scooping out soup w/ worms in it. Gross!
The acting is very real. Nobody was overdramatic and everybody seemed to really feel like high school students. Maybe the Priest was a bit much...but I think he was supposed to be a bit dramatic.
Wendy Lyon who plays Vicky the unfortunate student who becomes posessed by Mary Lou is one of my all-time favorite horror heroines. Though she doesn't really do much she played Vicky perfectly. Though I don't believe her as Prom Queen once she starts loosing it you really start to feel for Vicky. She was able to balance the line of sane/insane/scared/evil....once she's posessed Wendy Lyon is down right creepy.
The death scenes are okay....I've seen better. But my favorite is obviously the locker sequence. That blood oozing out is perfect and I like that what u don't see is just as gross. When Mary-Lou bursts out of Vicky at the prom I thought that was really scary (more so when I was little). Although in one shot you can see the line of the mask she's wearing...I even remember noticing that when I was 11!!!
People say that this film has nothing to do w/ the Original.....I beg to differ. Although there's no masked killer, and doesn't involve any of the characters from the original...it still happened at Hamilton High and I like to think that Prom Night and Prom Night 2 exist in the same timeline. We saw Hamilton High in 1980....Mary Lou burned in 1957....and Prom Night 4 opens up on Prom Night 1957, but we don't see the queen ceremony....so all four movies could have happened in one time-line. We just didn't hear about Mary-Lou in the first film, and Prom Night 4 didn't even take place at the prom. Although, Part 4 said "here's to Jamie Lee Curtis"...so maybe Prom Night 4 happens in real life. Who knows. Not to mention they were all produced by the same Peter Simpson.
Back to this film, it also tackles a very serious teen subject. Pregnancy. One of the characters becomes pregnant by (I'm assuming) some popular jock who refuses to call her back. She dies like, 5 min. later so it's insignificant but still....for them to slip that in a horror movie was pretty intersting. Perhaps trying to tell teens they weren't alone.
If you're looking for a good scary movie that takes itself a little seriously but doesn't dumb down the main characters this is for you!! Though it's slow on the gore 'till the middle/end the setup is worth it. And there's many elements of "A Nightmare On Elm Street" (my fav) which makes it more that just a simple slasher which is what Prom Night 1 was. Even if you didn't like the first Prom Night check this one out. I don't think you'll be dissapointed.
Summary of Prom Night 2 - Hello Mary Lou
When Hamilton High's Prom Queen of 1957, Mary Lou Maloney is killed by her jilted boyfriend, she comes back for revenge 30 years later. Bill Nordham is now the principle of Hamilton High and his son is about to attend the prom with Vicki Carpenter. However, she is possessed by Mary Lou Maloney after opening a trunk in the school's basement. Now Bill must face the horror he left behind in 1957.Similar DVD Movies
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