Prom Night

The 1980 slasher movie that confirmed Jamie Lee Curtis as her generation's scream queen is reworked as a high school horror flick starring Brittany Snow as a senior stalked by an obsessed psychopath (Johnathon Schaech). He murdered her entire family years before and now he's back to hack up a few teenagers during her senior prom. The director and writer have "made an obvious effort to avoid (or at least revise) many clichés and conventions associated with thrillers of that sort," writes Variety critic Joe Leydon, who calls it "a surprisingly effective teen-skewing thriller that soft-pedals graphic violence (in marked contrast to the R-rated 1980 original) while generating a fair degree of suspense." Idris Elba and Ming-Na co-star. Available in PG-13 and unrated versions, both with commentary by director Nelson McCormick and stars Snow and Schaech, four featurettes, deleted scenes (with optional commentary) and an alternate ending. Also available in Blu-ray, which features the (barely) longer unrated version plus an optional picture-in-picture storyboard track.