Always sad when the screenplay and final cut don't match. Appears a ton of stuff that was shot was lopped out of Prom Night, and most of what remains in the film was edited in completely out of order. Here's the script:
http://www.mediafire.com/view/?512f9jeospjw96r
Thanks, always wanted to read it.
Apparently Jamie Lee Curtis hated Prom Night because the script she agreed to do was completely different from what the film came to be. Quoting her own words "all that psychopath killing stuff was added post production and the film felt like a Halloween rip-off".
It had been understood all along that not everything in the script was filmed (it was only a 30 day shoot, not counting the 'psychopath killing stuff' that Peter Simpson forced them to add in pickups because he wanted a 'Halloween rip-off') and it would have been a 3-hour movie if they did film everything, so it had to be pruned considerably, but I was rather surprised to learn how little of it actually was filmed. I have a photo showing Sykes and McBride talking outside the school with a reporter present and that wasn't even filmed.
There was some really good stuff in the script that it's unfortunate to learn never went before the cameras - the stalking scenes at the indoor pool; the car ride scenes, etc. On the other end of the stick, the Adele and Davy characters added nothing and were deservedly tossed. Vicki should have been dumped as well. If she was there to serve any purpose besides showing her tight little ass, I don't know what it was.
It had been understood all along that not everything in the script was filmed (it was only a 30 day shoot, not counting the 'psychopath killing stuff' that Peter Simpson forced them to add in pickups because he wanted a 'Halloween rip-off')
Vicki should have been dumped as well. If she was there to serve any purpose besides showing her tight little ass, I don't know what it was.
Curtis wasn't terribly clear but, correct, she was referring to the Leonard Mirch subplot, the obvious "Halloween" rip-off aspect, which is what Simpson forced them to tack in after the original shoot. That's not in the original screenplay, and Bill Gray said he had nothing to do with scripting any of it. Not all of those scenes were directed by Paul Lynch either, although I forget which ones he shot vs. which ones he didn't. I haven't listened to the commentary yet so perhaps it's stated on there.
And you leave Vicki's ass alone ;)
Curtis wasn't terribly clear but, correct, she was referring to the Leonard Mirch subplot, the obvious "Halloween" rip-off aspect, which is what Simpson forced them to tack in after the original shoot. That's not in the original screenplay, and Bill Gray said he had nothing to do with scripting any of it. Not all of those scenes were directed by Paul Lynch either, although I forget which ones he shot vs. which ones he didn't. I haven't listened to the commentary yet so perhaps it's stated on there.