Talk:Prom Night (2008 film)

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Contents 1 Wording 2 Killing Donna? 3 Leaked onto torrent sites? 4 Production? 5 ...If it's not a remake 6 Reception - Sunday Herald 7 Teacher's name? 8 Sequel?

[edit] Wording

I'll fix some of the grammar in the synopsis if nobody minds "and stabs her profusely". Hilarious Apple-I-mage (talk) 23:54, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Killing Donna?

The plot says "they didn't know that Fenton planned to kill them all," but Fenton only decided to kill Donna at the very end of the movie when she escaped from him in the closet. He wants to kill everybody around her so they can live together. Apparently whoever wrote that plot summary didn't comprehend the movie very well. 70.242.165.181 (talk) 13:58, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Leaked onto torrent sites?

Has it really? I've only seen fake copies of it on all of the BitTorrent sites that I have checked. (They say that a well-known person in the torrent community, aXXo, released it, but it actually requires you to download something and is just overall fake.) And even if it were true, would the torrent tidbit be suitable for Wikipedia? (note that I have no problem with torrents or illegal downloading) I have removed this for now, but if anyone has any input on why they feel it should be here, or if they've found a legitimate copy that has been leaked, please discuss.Ihatecrayons (talk) 17:44, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Production?

What the hell is that even talking about? Looks like we have someone bored with their own meaningless lives and decided to just mess with pages. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.255.253.8 (talk) 05:06, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] ...If it's not a remake

Why is it tagged as so everywhere else? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.122.79.5 (talk) 22:52, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

It is a remake, but some people just don't want to admit it. For some reason, they think that calling it remake means it is bad so they don't want to use that term (one of the reasons the term "re-imagining" was made for other, similar remakes).

I don't think it's a remake. The only similarity between the movies seems to be that they both happen on prom night. The plots are totally different. Besides, lots of teen movies happen on prom night.

Definitely not a remake. --PureRED - Kyle Floyd (talk) 22:00, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Well, I'm sorry that you don't see it that way. But it is a remake. When they decided to make the movie, the producers' intention was to remake the 1980 Prom Night, the script was originally written as a remake of Prom Night (although that may not have been J. S. Cardone's intention when he re-wrote the script), and the IMDb considers it a remake. Also, there are several articles in movie magazines and on movie websites which refer to it as a remake. Only as it got closer and closer to the film's release did people start to say that it wasn't a remake, seemingly only to distance themselves from the idea that all remakes are automatically bad. Think about Tim Burton's 2001 version of Planet of the Apes. It is unquestionably a remake, right? Well the only similarities between the original and the remake are the title and the basic situation (a man from our world visiting a planet ruled by sentient apes), other than these similarities the plots are very different and the films have several major differences. So, why is it people have no problem saying Planet of the Apes is a remake (despite the few similarities vs. the many differences) but have problems calling Prom Night a remake when it has a similar number of similarities and differences? —Preceding unsigned comment added by BigBang616 (talk • contribs) 17:25, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Reception - Sunday Herald

A couple days ago it said the Sunday Herald gave the film a 2/5, but now it says 4/5. Is this an accurate change? Dannysk89 (talk) 21:10, 10 April 2008 (UTC)dannysk89

[edit] Teacher's name?

Who is 'Mr Fenton' who escaped from the mental asylum? The teacher? If so, why is his name given elsewhere as Ramsay? Are there two people? Does he take a fake name? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.111.216.160 (talk) 09:01, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

He killed a guy and used his identity--from what I've gathered. --PureRED - Kyle Floyd (talk) 22:02, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sequel?

Is there any chance for a sequel? Rubixmike14 —Preceding comment was added at 01:03, 5 June 2008 (UTC)