Prom Night is a Well Made Film

To say Prom Night wasn't well made is to say that Halloween III was good. Prom Night was well made, whether you like the movie or not. The technical aspects of the film was obviously handled with care, including the distinct attention to lighting, sound effects, etc. Now to argue that the story and characters were bad, well, that's a different story. If anyone has seen the making-of featurette on the DVD, the filmmakers really believed they had a good thriller on their hands, not a slasher. The film was never meant to be a slasher. You can argue otherwise but you can't argue against a filmmaker who wants to create his/her film the way s/he wants it. The film relied on suspense, not idiotic scare tactics, gore, and nudity.

I truly thought Prom Night was a well made film, with filmmakers behind the camera who cared about the movie, who paid every attention to detail, from the set designs with the Gothic architecture giving a morose atmosphere, to the script, to the use of sound effects, including the spine-tingling sound of the metal hangers moving innocently in the dark closet, to the lamps with the broad shoulders which may look like a person in the darkness. I don't know why people laugh at that when the film tried to make the protagonist get scared by the lamps when she bumps to them. It really does look like a person in the dark, and when filmmakers pay this much attention to these details, how can one say Prom Night was a badly made film? How can one carelessly ignore some of the meticulous details throughout the film? I find it sad that people don't appreciate something from this film. Technically, it was brilliantly made. Story-wise, one can argue the other, but, in my opinion, I liked the movie.

There comes a time in a serious movie goer's life where one should watch a film for what it was and not one wants it to be.