100 things I learned from Prom night
100. The sequel could be bachaleors night.
share99. The killer has a teleport machine.
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97. You might get killed by the killer EVEN IF you haven't had sex with your date (which really sucks).
~ I'll overlook your horrific grammar, even your stupidity. I can't overlook your ignorance.~
96: It's Donna's uncle's fault that three of her friends and members of a hotel staff are dead.
share95. While the man who's obsessed with you and killed three of your friends is breaking down the door with a fire extinguisher, just stand right in the middle of the door frame, cup your mouth with your hands, and cry.
shareIn her defense, she was scared as *beep*
shareThat's true, but your brain doesn't just shut down. Need for survival should overpower. Anyways:
94. When you realise your best friend's stalker is in the same hotel as her, don't call her (cause of course she doesn't have a cell-phone) or her boyfriend, who might be next to her, to warn her. No, just get killed by the stalker on your way down to tell her face-to-face.
93. It is impossible to stay upright in heels, and it is also impossible to take them off.
92. If you have a bad dream about going to the bathroom and the killer finding you, you should wake up and go to the bathroom.
91. It is always best to hide in a cramped area where you wouldn't be able to escape if you were found. After all, killers never look inside the closet.
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90. You can be a detective and not know anything about a serial murder that occurred in your own town a few years ago.
89. You can be a serial murderer/stalker and check into a hotel in the town where you murdered people and not be recognized.
88. You can get into an elevator with someone who murdered your family in front of you and not see them standing 2 feet away from you. A hat is the ultimate disguise!
87. You can stab a maid in the belly from 1 inch away and not get any blood on you.
86. When your teacher catches you smuggling a bottle of whiskey into your prom she will just take it away, tell you "good job", and let you go into the prom anyway.
85. If you murder someone's entire family and escape from the mental institution, no one will notify you or your family for 3 days.
84. You can hang around menacingly at a Prom for the high school where you used to teach (and murder your student's family) and no one will notice you.
83. When the cops DO notify your family that the murderer has escaped your family won't tell you.
82. All high schoolers can easily acquire $3000 a night hotel suites for their prom.
81. You can stab a teenage girl to death on white tile but there won't be any blood.
80. Hotel closets are 6-8 feet deep, providing maximum room to hide and then pounce on people from the shadows.
79. If you murder a housekeeper, just leave her cart in the hall. No one will be suspicious. Also, housekeepers are always cleaning rooms at 8pm.
78. No matter how loudly you scream while being murdered, no one will hear you.
77. If you're face to face with your former teacher who stalked and murdered your best friend's family, you won't recognize him.
76. When you know for sure that the killer is on the loose in the hotel, you don't warn the person he's there to kill, in fact, you leave her alone then haphazardly evacuate the hotel. Don't bother checking who's leaving the hotel!
75. If you're extremely paranoid about being murdered, you always leave the door open behind you in your hotel.
74. If someone is about to murder you, just stand there and scream "leave me alone". The best offense is a good defense!
73. If you're a cop looking for a girl that's about to be murdered and you're told she's on the 3rd floor, you immediately go outside and busy yourself with crowd control.
72. Stringer Bell is the worst cop, ever (even worse than Donnie Wahlberg in Dead Silence).
71. When the targeted victim leaves the hotel, send her home with 1 cop and have the rest of the police force stay at the hotel.
70. No matter what size clothes you wear, they'll fit Jonathan Schaeaeaeach like a glove.
69. The hair and makeup person on this film did Brittany Snow no favors.
68. If the entire hotel is being evacuated, you must go back upstairs to your suite to get your shaw.
67. Friends continue to go up to the suite and never return, but hey, it's your prom, go dance.
66. A stalker/killer can sneak into your room while you are in the bathroom and slit your boyfriends throat and you will come back to bed and never realize it until you roll him over.
65. Slitting someone's throat produces no pool of blood anywhere.
64. You find out your niece's stalker who killed her family is on the loose, but you leave her to enjoy her prom instead.
63. Maids can go hours without responding to requests from the front desk and only a bus boy is sent to look for you.
62. If the bus boy never makes it back either, the hotel staff just gives up.
61. Dead people don't leave blood stains on hotel carpet after being hidden under the bed.
60. Nominees for prom king and queen always go up to their hotel suite right before the announcement is made. Especially when the nominee for queen is very excited to win over the competition.
59. Stalker/killers can move like the wind and go un-noticed by everyone including trained cops who are stationed outside your house.
58. They also know which room you are in a that you will go into the closet to hide.
57. Always hide under the bed when your crazy stalker is trying to murder you. He'll never think to look there.
"Who knows where thoughts come from...they just appear!" ~Empire Records
56. If one of your high heels breaks and you're running away from a killer, keep the non-broken one on so you can limp and make loud noise.
share55. Dead bodies can turn a very weak color in less then 30 mins.
54. When a girl is stabbed multiple times, and she's lying dead on the floor, there will never be pool of blood around her...ever.
55. The prom kind and queen were lisa and ronnie.
54. The gym teacher was the prettiest gym teacher the dj has ever seen. She really wasn't though.
53. Britney Snowe's character has the worst nites ever.
52. The killer *beep* up Britney Snowe's character's life really bad. I mean really bad. First she loses her dad, then her brother, then her mom, then her best friend, then her other best friend, then her boyfriend/fiance in a couple of years. Dayuuum. Sucked to be her.
Lucian-"We can be slaves, or we can be... LYCANS!"
51. When falling down flights of stairs from the third floor you will somehow end up on a higher floor.
52. Your boyfriend will assume you accidentally went to a higher un-occupied under-construction level and wandered off.
53. Andy Samberg does a better job of making you jump when a bathroom mirror is closed.
50. Basically that this movie is ****.
share49. It's appropriate to make a joke about a teacher having a crush on your friend, when your other friend's family died because of the same thing.
48. Every female P.E. teacher is a lesbian, it's not just a stereotype.
47. When being chased by a serial killer always hide under a clear sheet of plastic.
46. Not being Prom Queen will haunt you for life.
45. Brittany Snow has a dent in her forehead.
44. It's suicide to go outside without a shawl (it was cold that night).
43. The prom cost $100,000, way above budget.
42. The DJ was crap, not worth the overspend.
41. Cover your mouth when hiding as it completely does not make your heavy breathing sound louder.
40. Cops always sit with their windows open when staking out.
39. Always get the scrawniest, least threatening cop to sit in front of your house. Most effective if it's just 1.
38. No matter how dangerous the killer is, cops don't call for back up.
37. You just locked a killer in the other room, scream and pace, but whatever you do, don't call 911 on the phone behind you.
36. Detective to the front desk manager: A killer is on he loose. "No you don't have to be concerned."
35. Elevators always fail when you need them most.
I hope you pass a kidney stone the size of a golf ball
Hotel lamps are scary.
If you're paranoid about getting murdered and a police officer evacuates your prom, you don't think there is anything strange about it, don't worry at all and quietly go get your shawl upstairs... cause you know... it WAS your dead mom's...
Eibhlinn Savage
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59. Stalker/killers can move like the wind and go un-noticed by everyone including trained cops who are stationed outside your house.
He KILLED the cops outside the house. He wasn't unnoticed. share
Hallelujah!!! Thank you for number #60!!! This was bugging the CRAP out of me!!!!!!!!!!!! I want to strangle the writer and all of the people who let that go!!!
shareSeriously. Do you not pay attention to any sort of detail in movies at all?
90. You can be a detective and not know anything about a serial murder that occurred in your own town a few years ago.
He could have been new.
89. You can be a serial murderer/stalker and check into a hotel in the town where you murdered people and not be recognized.
He didn't look like he used to. The pictures of him before, and the clip of him being identified as the killer, shows him with medium-lengthed, stringy hear, and a full goatee. When he was in the hotel, he had little stubble, and very short hair.
88. You can get into an elevator with someone who murdered your family in front of you and not see them standing 2 feet away from you. A hat is the ultimate disguise!
Explained above. Also, he was in the very back of the elevator
85. If you murder someone's entire family and escape from the mental institution, no one will notify you or your family for 3 days.
They didn't act as if that's normal procedure. The main detective and the girl's uncle were both outraged when they found out he guy escaped 3 days prior.
84. You can hang around menacingly at a Prom for the high school where you used to teach (and murder your student's family) and no one will notice you.
Explained above
82. All high schoolers can easily acquire $3000 a night hotel suites for their prom.
They made it pretty damn obvious that the girl was rich. She expected to be able to "buy" winning Prom Queen. They mentioned her rich father.
77. If you're face to face with your former teacher who stalked and murdered your best friend's family, you won't recognize him.
Again, explained above
73. If you're a cop looking for a girl that's about to be murdered and you're told she's on the 3rd floor, you immediately go outside and busy yourself with crowd control.
He wasn't told she was upstairs until AFTER he went outside and began busying himself with crowd control. He's out side, told she's inside, and runs back inside. share
34. Girls in high school will fight and bitch with other girls about being honored prom queen.
33. When girls pay a lot to get their hair done at the salon before their prom, their hair will look exactly the same as when they go in.
32. When caught sneaking liquor into your prom, your teacher will just laugh and let you go in anyway.
31. When you are looking for your girlfriend in your hotel room during your prom, you just sneak around until you find her because its normal for her to hide from you. She especially likes to hide in the shower behind the curtin til your rip the curtin open only to find that she isnt there either!
30. Brittany Snow will tell a hair dresser that her hair looks really good even though the hairdresser did nothing to make it look different.
29. All girls get extremely nervous for their senior prom, the most intimidating and important night of their lives.
28. Friends all get really depressed at their prom because they realize they will never see their friends ever again after that night.
27. Really pretty girls are always nominated by their classmates even if they are snobby mean b*tches.
26. Even though the black prom queen hangs out with all popular rich white kids, she still needs a black boyfriend.
25. A psychopathic killer can clean up a teenage girl's blood off a bathroom floor in seconds after discovering her boyfriend has entered the room.
24. Brittany Snow's boyfriend is actually 30 years old but is still a high school student.
23. Never watch a slasher movie that is rated pg-13 ever again.
22. When you hear a sound while you are re-touching your make up in the bathroom, it just means that your best girlfriend is hiding from you in the room so slowly walk around to see if you can find her, and chant her name because you guys love to scare eachother!!
21. When there's a serial killer on the loose, the best thing to do is send the killer's target home and post 2 cops outside.
20. If you're going to be a serial killer, make sure the last photo taken of you is one of you with long stringy hair and wild beard, so that when you escape, all you have to do is shave your hair and beard and no one will recognize you.
19. When you're running from a killer in a long dress and it rips, don't worry, because it'll rip in the right places and become a cute cocktail dress.
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Who are you calling a cootie queen?! You lint licker!!!
18. Hotel rooms, especially that hotel's rooms, have sound proof walls.
17. All High School students now look like they are in their early 20's minimum.
16. As with every horror movie made in the last 10 years or more, when you close anything with a mirror on it someone will have snuck up behind you at least every other time.
15. Before storming the hotel with a swat team make sure "the hotel knows what is going on"
14. High schools arrange proms so that their students can get rooms (conveniently located in the same building as the prom) together.
13. A serial killer is able to put a body in the ceiling vent in the hotel room, but Stringer Bell needs a ladder to climb up there.
12. Walking backwards and weeping is the best way to avoid a serial killer. After all, they NEVER appear just behind you.
11. Losing your hair and no longer being a pretty boy is a sure fire way to get cast as a deranged serial killer in a crap movie.
10. Serial killers are the fastest people on earth. They can even beat a cop who is speeding through the streets in a fast police-car and running red lights, despite having no obvious transport of their own. Perhaps they can fly.
9. SWAT teams are always late.
8. A knife is a way more formidable weapon than guns.
7. Despite being a cop for years, you would never suspect that an escaped nutjob would shave off his beard and cut his hair to escape detection, and thus prepare a photo-identikit to hand out to people.
6. Serial killers can go to a special store to buy blood-repelent clothes!
5. All teenagers in the States look about 25 or older.
4. Actors come in pairs. Two from Wired and two from Heroes. These people should fire their agents.
"14. High schools arrange proms so that their students can get rooms (conveniently located in the same building as the prom) together."
Our prom did that. xD
18. When you're getting ready for prom in the bathroom, you're mother might just be standing behind you without you knowing.
17. When you're mom is being stabbed, just sit under your bed and watch.
16. Talk about having sex at the prom really loudly while you're getting your hair done.
26. Even though the black prom queen hangs out with all popular rich white kids, she still needs a black boyfriend.
So what? because she hangs out with white kids, she needs a white boyfriend? She shouldn't have a black boyfriend? share
I guess I found the mook who wrote the screenplay. Nice work!
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12. Ex-teachers somehow obtain super sneaking and killing abilities, allowing them to take out armed cops with ghostly movements(with only a small knife).
11. There is no reason to assume that an escaped killer who is obsessed with your niece is headed in her direction.
10. The movie forgot to mention that Richard Fenton was a memeber of the League of Shadows.
8. All the teenager actors in Hollywood are forced to portray twelve year olds because all the twenty and thirty year olds take their work.
9. Some people somehow like this movie.
They mostly come at night, mostly......
8. Hotel maids carry key cards conveniently labeled “Master” so that if they ever loose one, honest guests will know to turn it in.
7. If you’re a psycho-stalker/killer at a hotel, be sure to have a maid’s cart parked nearby so you'll have a supply of towels to clean up your mess. Of course, this doesn’t apply if you’re a PG-13-psycho-stalker/killer as there isn’t going to be any blood for you to clean up.
6. If you’re seeing things in mirrors, paint over the mirrors. Oops. That was different nonsensical-horror movie.
5. If you’re a psycho with a beard, shave it but keep the stubble. That will keep you fashionable (maybe even sexy) and help you go unnoticed in a crowd of clean-shaving folk.
4. If there is an alarm going off in the hotel, immediately go back upstairs to get your shawl. it might not be there ten minutes later when the emergency is over.
3. If you are Brittany Snow's boyfriend's parents, sure let him spend the night with her. It's not like three of her other friends didn't die.
2. When your getting your hair done and you talk about having sex for two or three times, the people doing your hair won't be weirded out at all about it. They'll just be smiling at eachother like nothing is going on
And I will get him back even as he gloats. In the meantime I'll practice on less honorable throats!
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Bonus 8. Even though the psycho killer murdered your entire family to get to you, there is absolutley no reason for the police to think he would go after your friends and innocent bystanders once he escapes from prison! Therefore, the police do not bother to warn anybody until after 5 people are already dead.
I'm going to punch you in the knee!
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1. Blonde chicks walk into friends and lamps when they are nervous.
Captain Jack:. ‘....Savy’
"So what? because she hangs out with white kids, she needs a white boyfriend? She shouldn't have a black boyfriend?"
Who cares? And to answer your question...YES!
He didn't look like he used to. The pictures of him before, and the clip of him being identified as the killer, shows him with medium-lengthed, stringy hear, and a full goatee. When he was in the hotel, he had little stubble, and very short hair.
Yeah but before Claire died she said "Mr Fento-"
Smelly Cat, Smelly Cat What are they feeding you?
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Some people were actually defending this movie? Now that's funny....
and this is great...
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88. You can get into an elevator with someone who murdered your family in front of you and not see them standing 2 feet away from you. A hat is the ultimate disguise!
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"Explained above. Also, he was in the very back of the elevator "
Elevevators are not really that big...even at 5 star hotels. You see all corners.
no 87, he stabs 5 ? people with no blood ? absolute crap film
share68. If you have an actress with a prominent scar on her head (Which is still hot, by the by), and you're shooting a horror movie, and you're going to light it so as to not cover it up... don't use it at all. There's not reason to add it in and explain it. Just keep everyone waiting for the story that never comes.
share90. The last place a killer would look in a bedroom would be under the bed, so if you are inside a bedroom, the best place to hide is under the bed. While you are hiding there, just shut your mouth and don't cry too loud, or the killer may find you quicker.
sharebetter yet leave your boyfriend in the room and go out alone when you know a killer is in the room . she would have atleast told the boyfriend - oh *beep* thats the guy that killed donna's whole family
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I've learned it's LESS traumatizing to know someone who killed your parents and brother has escaped from prison COMPARED to him finding you and killing your friends one by one at your Prom.
Bonus:
* Sometimes you just can't wait that whole three minutes until the announcement of prom king and queen before having to sneak off for a piece of action.
*The brother doesn't always die first.
bonuses:
* When a fire alarm is pulled and over 25 cops and/or firemen come, none of them search the floors and rooms for people.
* When trying to kill someone who is locked in their hotel room, bang the door as loudly as possible with a fire extinguisher. This will never attract attention of cops searching the floor OR people leaving their rooms to exit hotel.
* Snow's character does not have peripheral vision. Good thing for the killer or he would have been seen in the mirror when she bent over to pick up her purse/shawl.
*Cops think it's okay to circulate pictures of serial killers from 3 years ago even when the killer in question has shaved off all his facial hair and regular hair and not mention the fact he looks completely different.
*Never ever flirt with your teachers and think it's just a bit of fun.
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Not sure if this has been mentioned in any form (did a cursory reading) but here goes.
If you find members of your family butchered and you have a baseball bat in hand, by all means ditch it right away and hide.
If someone with a knife is chasing you and you enter a construction zone with hammers, 2x4s, etc, the best thing to do is ignore them and get behind a translucent and noisy plastic sheet.
Fear is the Mind Killer
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* Never think to use a fake name when checking in a hotel room if ur an escaped convict.
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Bonus: When your niece is mentally traumatised to the extent that, even after three years of therapy, her psychiatrist says she's actually doing well despite having horrific nightmares, the standard way of approaching her when you spot her rummaging through a bathroom cabinet is to silently and methodically sneak up behind her in a manner that would make Solid Snake proud and watch her like some sort of voyeur - positioning yourself so that when she closes the cabinet door he'll suddenly see you in the mirror. Any other sort of approach, such as calling her name to get her attention, might frighten her unduly.
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Extra Bonus: A serial killer who has broken out of a maximum security compound - and has already killed several people in the hotel he is currently in - will be decidedly non-plussed by a black girl recognising him and running down the stairs screaming. So much so, in fact, that he will pursue her at a pace of approximately 0.5 miles per hour, safe in the knowledge that there's probably a construction-related dead end on the next floor down - a floor on which the black girl will presumably make a series of ridiculous decisions such as ignoring potential weapons, choosing pathetic hiding places, failing to remove movement-impairing shoes and backing noisily down hallways, bumping into everything she can.
Of course, the killer's seemingly apathetic disposition towards the potential escape of his victims could be explained by his apparent ability to teleport silently throughout the hotel at will; it would be interesting to know whether these traits were scripted or ad-libbed by the actor playing the killer, because someone, somewhere along the line is deserving of an Oscar. The killer even has the time and presence of mind to set up some sort of pneumatic device to spring Michael's cadaver out of a cupboard in order to frighten the two police officers who, of course, are baffled at the killer's teleportation from the room after Donna's escape.
To top it all off, the killer's body appears to emit a cell-phone jamming pulse.
A killer who could emit a cell phone jamming field might actually be an interesting movie. They should have made that one instead.
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Not showing the dead bodies right away when Donna is walking through the house at the beginning makes it extra super traumatizing when she finds her brother dead than watches her mother get murdered. Also if you are still in therapy b/c of a traumatic event three years later maybe going to prom isn't the best idea.
*Bonus*: How strong are people making simple ducting. It's only suppose to carry air, and is usually only tied to the building with wire hangers. But it can support two fully grown adult males? And the only blood in this movie manages to trickle itself out of a ceiling vent. Well done.
shareThe Keystone Cops are alive & well.
shareI learnt that:
Anyone can be a teacher in America as they don't do any sort of background check or even talk to eachother so other teachers have spotted that a teacher has become obsessed with a student until they have murdered her whole family. (I'm a teacher in the UK and we're too nosey not to spot another teacher going off the rails!!!!)
It's relatively easy to escape from maxmium security psychiatric wards in the US when you are an obsessed maths teacher (I mean it only took Michael and the guys from Prison Break to escape after about a week and months of previous planning)
That you are a 'top' deective watching a prom from the back but another cop can sneak up on you close enough to stab you if he was the psycho killer you are looking for.
And lastly, that hotel evacualtion policies are so good in the US that if it was a fire, all the people evacuated stand close enough to the buliding to either get hurt by faling debris, burnt or just cause a huge obstrucion to the emergency services trying to attend the emergency!
You absolutely got to love a film with so many plot holes that you can't even suspend reality for a few minutes to enjoy the excellent acting, at least with Scream you knew what you were getting!
I love all the posts on this, but can I also point out that it does appear that the actors do come in pairs as both 'Donna' and her aunt were in Nip/Tuck and I couldn't help thinking who would let their innocent duaghter be looked after b a sex-crazed, AIDS ridden drug addict who gave her son to Dr Christian to raise!!!
P.S I hope to goodness this school offers a counselling service to the kids considering in 3 years they've had a psycho maths teacher, had numerous classmates murdered and had their senrior prom ruined!
Plus any self-respecting woman would send her boyfriend to go and get their shawl with clear instructions on where to find it while she stood outside with her friends bitching about what other people were wearing to prom.
Bonus:
- As long as the light in the target's room is on, everything is fine.
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You don't have a TV?! Where are your furnitures pointing to?
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When the fire alarms go off, the elevators don't automatically shut down, and return to the lobby.
shareThis is the thing I didn't get.
If you're a cop and you've just got to the Hotel where the target of a serial killer is, DON'T position anyone on the floor of her suite, prioritise how awesome a time she wants to have at Prom first.
If you are part of a swat team searching a hotel, the staff won't give you a master key so you get to kick down every door in the hotel.
you can stab ppl to death in such a way as they don't bleed....seriously look at the murders...no *beep* blood
i loved i love u beth cooper the book. y did it become one of the *beep* movies i've ever seen
*Never hang out with Brittany Snow... you colud get murdered.
share-When you're a girl heading for the prom, leave the cell phone at home, so you're sure that nobody can get in touch with you.
-When the police shoot the bad guy, a single bullet is never enough to put him down. An entire clip is the minimum, otherwise the criminal already stuffed with bullets always move and can hurt you.
-When you gently touch an inert body, it always conveniently turn itself by 180 degrees to show the exact location of the wound.
-Murdered people always have the eyes wide open.
-Girls spend half of their life in bathroom, never peeing but just taking pills. No exit from there without a sudden appearance in the mirror:criminals, stalkers, obsessed boyfriends, ghosts, your stepfather, Bloody Mary, Candyman, Boogeyman, Superman, Satan, Mickey Mouse, whatever...
-At the prom, no food on the table, no drinks, no cigarettes, only some music, a lot of speech in microphone, you can get a knife in your throat or, if you escape, the police kick you out in the street. Sad party...
-The victims are always called on the regular phone, but the wires are cut. Never ever call them on cellular, because they can answer and take care.
-When the criminal grab you from the feet, fight silently with him. Screaming for help is strictly forbidden, the cop who's 5 meters away in another room can hear you.
When a hotel decides to fix the gym they always let in a few pidgeons, to make it look like an abandoned warehouse
shareClosing the bathroom mirror and seeing a face in it, bodies falling from airducts and hanging down half-way, people jumping out of closets, pulling back the shower curtain to see if anyone is there when no one technically *should* be there, and bitchy blonde prom queen wanna-bes are in no way cliches.
These are all very original ideas and should be used at every turn.
Apparently having a good prom is more important than people's lives. Also sending thousands of people outside is a good way to flush out a killer. ALSO they keep vents/windows that are easily accessable in maximum security psyche wards.
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