Prom Night

Prom Night is a 1980 mystery slasher film directed by Paul Lynch, written by William Gray, and starring Leslie Nielsen and Jamie Lee Curtis. The film follows four high school seniors who are targeted at their prom by a masked killer, seeking vengeance for the accidental death of Robin Hammond, a young girl, from six years earlier. The film also stars Casey Stevens, Eddie Benton, Mary Beth Rubens, Michael Tough, Robert A. Silverman, and Antoinette Bower. Lynch began developing Prom Night after a meeting with Irwin Yablans, producer of Halloween (1978), who suggested he make a horror film similarly centered around a holiday. Instead, Gray wrote a screenplay adapted from a revenge-themed story by Robert Guza Jr.—an acquaintance of Lynch—using a school prom as a unifying se