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Prom Night 2 - Hello Mary Lou

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Prom Night 2 - Hello Mary Lou is about a girl named Mary Lou who was killed at her prom on stage accepting the prom queen award sometime during the 1950's. And then the movie takes place 30 years later and the spirit of Mary Lou has come back from the dead to get revenge, wreak havoc and accept her award as prom queen. She possesses a girl to do so and nothing is going to stop her from getting what she wants.

BORE:
When I was a kid I came home one day and my brother had this movie playing, and I saw a seen that scared me back then, but stuck in my mind all these years. And now finally I have tracked down what that movie was and being a horror buff I must say I this is a pretty decent flick that rekindled me with that scene in my head and i also wasn't disappointed with the rest of the film around it.

Tho it didn't scare me at all this time (nothing does anymore) I still think it's a great horror movie. What's interesting about it is it pays tribute to many of the great horror movies made before it. The most noticeable is the prom at the beginning of the movie that resembles the prom from the movie Carrie. It's not a rip-off; it's a tribute to many, many horror movies.


SUMMARY:
This movie has some great scenes... especially in the locker room *squish*. I love the homage stuff, I like the catch phrases and I think this is certainly a terrific horror movie. The ending could have been better, but overall I'm glad I own this one. It's a shame there is no bonus features at all. I'd love to have heard an audio commentary.

NOTE: this film is not entirely a sequel to Prom Night 1. This movie uses the title as part 2, but it's kind of the same thing that was done for Halloween 3... only this movie doesn't suck!!! So keep in mind it's not a continuation of the first movie, but IMO this is the best Prom Night of them all!

All the prom nights are classics, I really love this one that revolves around Mary Lou Maloney, this is horror at it's best. Mary Lou is killed in a fire and her life is cut short so she comes back... and possesses an innocent girl to take revenge on the ones she feels is responsibile for her death.

This movie is not really that much of a sequel to Prom Night which starred Jamie Lee Curtis of Halloween fame. This is sort of a different movie and explains more about what happened in Highland High's past. In 1957 Mary Lou Maloney was crowned homecoming Queen but due to jealousy and anger, her just dumped boyfriend, played by Michael Ironside, threw a smoke bomb on the stage. Unfortunately, it caught Mary Lou's dress on fire and she died tragically burning up so fast no one could even approach her to try to put the flames out and save her. The school has been haunted ever since and when a troubled teenage girl searches for a new dress in the school's basement, she accidentally unlocks a trunk where Mary Lou's ghost can cross over and come into this world. Havoc is wreaked, but the story becomes totally unbelievable, if it ever was, about near the end of the movie where it becomes a rip off of Stephen King's Carrie movie. Good acting though and it's got the usual teenage angst and gore. I like the movie for it's 1950's glimpses at life like those awful school gym uniforms, the one piece blue uniforms that women who are a little older used to have to wear to P.E.! Yikes!

Although completely unrelated (not such a bad thing) to the original "Prom Night", "Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night 2" is an entertainingly dark movie that is rather low on actual horror. The name of this movie itself indicates that this is not an all-time great horror movie, nor does it try to be, but for people serious about rounding out their horror movie collection, I think this review is helpful. It should be noted that this sequel is better than the original, but that is faint praise. Mary Lou was the prom queen during the 1950s, but she was a very bad girl, and when a prank goes bad, a la "Carrie", a tragedy results.

Trying to separate itself from the original slasher, the sequel tries its hand at spiritual possession. Overall, the possession scenes are rather dull, and there is virtually nothing scary about them. Interestingly enough, "Prom Night 2" takes itself seriously for the most part as a horror movie, and this is partly what makes it fun, even if it's not scary. Give it credit for that much.

The acting is pretty good in "Prom Night 2", especially Michael Ironside. The movie is executed pretty well, and the movie reaches its maximum potential. On one level, "Prom Night 2" succeeds at being an entertaining movie with a dark side that actually takes itself seriously (for the most part) as a horror movie, but falls short in the scary department; and this is why "Prom Night 2" gets a decent rating of 2.25 STARS. Therefore, if you're looking for an 80s movie that is in the mold of a horror movie, but more fun than scary, this could be your thing. If you're looking for something scary, leave "Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night 2" on the DVD shelf.

movie claims to be "enhanced for 16x9" but this is meaningless market drivel. It's often referred to as "widescreen" in the DVD descriptions on the web, too. Not true. Seems the Prom Night series has DVD management consistently punting on widescreen support (read: showing the movie as it was filmed and intended by the director). It would be great if all the late-nineties first-run panic-to-market DVDs were reissued in widescreen.

I really enjoyed this film! it may be very corny but that doesn't matter, it has a fast pace, some great gore, a lesbian situation and a disturbing incest moment, but overall I still loved this film!

Prom night 2 "Hello Mary lou" good old fashion scare flick Mary lou is the ghost of a 50's Prom queen BUT before she is crown, a joke turned bad ( she gets burned to death Before she's crowned) So she is trapped in the past till a trunk is opened that the crown she was to wear is open and set her Spirit free( after 30 years and she enters the body of a girl In the present) Mary Lou is set on revenge & she wants to be crowned "Prom Queen " at Any price ( even if she has to to Kill to get it.............. Good 80's horror flick ( don't get Prom night 3 it was Just Dumb & silly )

"NO F*****G WINGS!".....this is just one line from this movie, which is by far, in my collection as one of the creepiest movies I own. I have seen this movie countless times and I think it was very well done in an era when these kinds of movies ran rampant.............the 80's, I don't know if it would stand up against some of the ones if it were made today the same way but it still gives me chills.

Mary Lou Maloney was Prom Queen of the 1957 prom but unfortunately, a jealous boyfriend decided to play a joke on her a throw a stink bomb on stage from the rafters and ruin the proceedings, but as luck would have it, he ruined a lot more than that, he ruined her dress, her hair, her makeup and pretty much any chance for a life after High School because the stink bomb ignites the dress and turns her into a toasted Marshmallow...........BUT HEY, what kind of a movie would it be if it ended there, eh?.................CIRCA: 1987, 30 years later and strange things are happening at this school and most of them to poor Vicki Carpenter, who is running for Prom Queen, unfortunately for Vicki, someone else wants the crown who missed it by a stink's breath, MARY LOU and nothing is going to stand in her way......or NOBODY so, she does what any self respecting life entity does in a movie like this...she takes over Vicki's body and the fun starts and so does the body count.

Hey, this movie is a slam dunk for anyone's collection who likes horror, it stars great Character actor Michael Ironside, from the TV Mini-series "V" and movies like THE NEXT KARATE KID.

Released 7 (!!!) years after the original Prom Night, "Hello Mary-Lou" is a very well made film and (in my opinion) the last GOOD Prom Night movie (yes, I'm counting the 2008 remake 'cause it's gonna suck). Though it doesn't directly relate to the first Prom Night, it DOES take place at the same high school "Hamilton High" (same as the other two movies in the series).
This film is awesome because:

The Makers of this film took their time, and set a very good tone w/ pacing, and how they set up the shots. The High School and Church is always looming over the characters (repeated in Prom Night 3/4). The designs of the school, Prom and the "hell school" that Vicky sees is amazing. I remember being scared to death when I was little of the dead lunch lady scooping out soup w/ worms in it. Gross!

The acting is very real. Nobody was overdramatic and everybody seemed to really feel like high school students. Maybe the Priest was a bit much...but I think he was supposed to be a bit dramatic.
Wendy Lyon who plays Vicky the unfortunate student who becomes posessed by Mary Lou is one of my all-time favorite horror heroines. Though she doesn't really do much she played Vicky perfectly. Though I don't believe her as Prom Queen once she starts loosing it you really start to feel for Vicky. She was able to balance the line of sane/insane/scared/evil....once she's posessed Wendy Lyon is down right creepy.

The death scenes are okay....I've seen better. But my favorite is obviously the locker sequence. That blood oozing out is perfect and I like that what u don't see is just as gross. When Mary-Lou bursts out of Vicky at the prom I thought that was really scary (more so when I was little). Although in one shot you can see the line of the mask she's wearing...I even remember noticing that when I was 11!!!

People say that this film has nothing to do w/ the Original.....I beg to differ. Although there's no masked killer, and doesn't involve any of the characters from the original...it still happened at Hamilton High and I like to think that Prom Night and Prom Night 2 exist in the same timeline. We saw Hamilton High in 1980....Mary Lou burned in 1957....and Prom Night 4 opens up on Prom Night 1957, but we don't see the queen ceremony....so all four movies could have happened in one time-line. We just didn't hear about Mary-Lou in the first film, and Prom Night 4 didn't even take place at the prom. Although, Part 4 said "here's to Jamie Lee Curtis"...so maybe Prom Night 4 happens in real life. Who knows. Not to mention they were all produced by the same Peter Simpson.

Back to this film, it also tackles a very serious teen subject. Pregnancy. One of the characters becomes pregnant by (I'm assuming) some popular jock who refuses to call her back. She dies like, 5 min. later so it's insignificant but still....for them to slip that in a horror movie was pretty intersting. Perhaps trying to tell teens they weren't alone.

If you're looking for a good scary movie that takes itself a little seriously but doesn't dumb down the main characters this is for you!! Though it's slow on the gore 'till the middle/end the setup is worth it. And there's many elements of "A Nightmare On Elm Street" (my fav) which makes it more that just a simple slasher which is what Prom Night 1 was. Even if you didn't like the first Prom Night check this one out. I don't think you'll be dissapointed.

i loved the movie, i have been looking for it for a long time. Now, i finally have it. Thank you!