Prom Night (1980)

Name: Prom Night (1980)
Start: 2024-10-11T22:00:00-04:00
Location: Tampa Theatre

Schedule

Fri Oct 11 2024 at 10:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Tampa Theatre | Tampa, FL

A Nightmare on Franklin Street” series event
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1h 32m / R / Slasher
TRAILER:

VENUE: Historic Duncan Auditorium
$10.00 - General Admission
$7.00 - Tampa Theatre Members
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All movies are the result of thousands of tiny decisions. Nearly perfect movies like 1978’s Halloween, therefore, require thousands of good decisions. Many of those decisions are legible in the work itself: the soundtrack, Michael Myers’s mask, casting Jamie Lee Curtis, etc. But some are almost imperceptible, like the fact that when you name your movie after an annual holiday, it’s going to get watched every year forever. Congratulations, you just made yourself a cult classic.
Prom Night has at least three things in common with Halloween: the good decision to cast Jamie Lee Curtis, a plot about a shadowy killer in a mask stalking and murdering suburban teenagers with an implied motivation of revenge, oh and producer Irwin Yablans, who suggested to director Paul Lynch that instead of making a picture about a doctor who kills his patients, he should make a movie based on a holiday. Voila, Prom Night.
Hector Sotomayor, professor of Film, Art, & Media at the Ringling College of Art & Design, will provide an introduction for the film.

This screening is held in the Historic Duncan Auditorium. This space utilizes open seating for this event, seat selection is not required.
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Discover the rest of the 2024 “A Nightmare on Franklin Street” series lineup at https://tampatheatre.org/tour-category/nightmare/
Support for the 2024 A Nightmare on Franklin Street series is provided in part by Melting Pot Social. Promotional support is provided by Spookala, Florida’s Horror Convention and Axios Tampa Bay.