Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II

1987 "You Can't Keep a Bad Girl Down!"
5.7| 1h37m| R| en| More Info
Released: 16 October 1987 Released
Producted By: Simcom Limited
Country: Canada
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When Hamilton High’s Prom Queen of 1957, Mary Lou Maloney is killed by her jilted boyfriend, she comes back for revenge thirty years later.

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Bruce Pittman

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Simcom Limited

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ThrillMessage There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.
Tymon Sutton The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.
Jakoba True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.
Roxie The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;
punisherversion1 Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night 2: Directed by Bruce Pittman and written by Ron Oliver. The original Prom Night was a classic slasher that was part of the original run of horror films where Jaime Lee Curtis was front and center. Her main scream queen phase. It was a tough sit for me. It had an odd hazy look about it almost like they rubbed bacon grease on the camera lens. It was honestly very odd. But the sequel is a completely different animal all together. This movie comes after the success of the Elm Street movies. They make the villain of this movie, Mary Lou into a supernatural villain much in the vein of Freddy Krueger in Freddy's Revenge. Mary Lou after jilting her date for a cooler kid to get busy with. He gets revenge on her by setting her on fire and killing her. 30 years later the demonic version of Mary Lou is trying to find her way back to the world through a young religious girl. The one thing right off the bat to mention is this is definitely not a scary movie. I'm not entirely sure it's even trying to be scary. It's over the top in a fun way. Mary Lou is in a corporeal state for the majority of the film. The deaths are wild and over the top. A stalking sequence in a girls locker room and shower with both characters completely nude. Even with this weird movie, this came out of left field. But then it comes to the eventual prom scene and this honestly felt like the ending of Carrie. It didn't have all the same details mind you. The mechanics were similar and the feeling was similar as well but the nuance was different. It does get wild and crazy in parts and Michael Ironside is pretty good in this but he's good in most of anything he does. This is the definition of a whatever movie. It's fine mostly. It's not scary. It's not funny. It doesn't offend your sensibility cinematically. I give this movie a C.
jadavix The name-only sequel to 1980's "Prom Night" is a tiresome exercise in schlock horror, taking cues from the "Elm Street" movies, "Carrie", and I guess, "The Exorcist", too.It's not as good, or anywhere near as interesting, as those movies.It's about a repressed, goody-two-shoes girl from a religious family ("Carrie") who discovers the dress of some slut from 1957 and, putting it on, is possessed by her spirit ("The Exorcist"). She has a number of scary hallucinations that cause rocking horses to grow teeth and make everything look dirty, like any of the dream sequences in the Elm Street movies. She starts behaving badly, though not interestingly, and the movie culminates in some mayhem at the titular "Prom Night" ("Carrie" again).The movie is really nothing you haven't seen before. The only horror movie it doesn't crib from is, well, the one it's named after! It's not even really a slasher.
callanvass Mary Lou is a promiscuous teenager who gleefully indulges in boys, sex, and booze. On Prom Night in 1957, she goes too far by leaving her boyfriend, Billy Nordham hanging to have sex with another guy. Billy decides to get revenge and kills her. 30 years later, Bill Nordham is now the principle of Hamilton High. Mary Lou is awakened by a trunk in the basement and possesses Vicki Carpenter. Bill must face his traumatic past before it's too late. I'm gonna get this out of the way right now! I loved this movie. It's not a great film by any means, but it's great fun! It goes all out to ensure the viewer has a good time, and I'd say it exceeded expectations in a pretty big way. This movie is NOTHING like the first one. It's full on fantasy, resembling a Nightmare on Elm Street movie more than anything else. Wait until you see Vicki being attacked in the bedroom! (That creepy unicorn, brr) I really enjoyed the different approach from the first one, and it was way more fun as a result. This movie wants you to have a good time, everything else is secondary. There isn't much gore, but we do get some light lesbianism in the shower! Even a weird incest scene! A newly pregnant student gets killed as well (Ouch! God, I miss the 80's!) I was really impressed by the creativity and the guts the director, Bruce Pittman had. The acting is surprisingly above average for the most part. Wendy Lyon is excellent as our heroine. She's sympathetic, vulnerable, even a little creepy when she goes completely in Mary Lou mode. Lisa Schrage is a blast as Mary Lou. I had no sympathy for her being killed, because she's so unsympathetic. But I think they intended it to be that way. Michael Ironside phones it in here. I hate to say it, but he looked visibly unsure on what to do here. This is clearly a paycheck role! There were only brief flourishes of what makes him so great. Louis Ferreira is OK as Vicki's love interest. He didn't embarrass himself and held his own. The ending is similar to Nightmare on Elm Street 2 in some ways. I dug it and even clapped a little bit. I dig the false happy ending if it's done correctlyWhere is the love for this movie? It's unabashedly corny, and I loved every minute of it. It represents everything I adored about the 80's! Where you at, Mary Lou? I'll go on a blind date with you any day!7/10
AaronCapenBanner Loose sequel to "Prom Night" only uses the same high school, Hamilton High, where another horror takes place as the vengeful spirit of Mary Lou Maloney, who was accidentally killed at her senior prom thirty years previous, is unleashed from a trunk(?!) by Vicki Carpenter(Wendy Lyon) who is dating the son of principal Bill Nordham,(played by Michael Ironside) who, just by one of those standard movie coincidences, happens to be Mary Lou's old boyfriend that she blames for her fiery death. So evil Mary Lou possesses poor Vicki to destroy Bill, and be crowned senior prom queen, no matter who has to die...Typically violent and idiotic horror exploitation is just another illogical and crass film where the supernatural protagonist has all kinds of superpowers because the script says they do, with no regard to plausibility or coherence, with the ending being the final insult.