Here we have two very similar trailers for two seemingly similar movies:
PROM NIGHT, the remake of the 1980 Jamie Lee Curtis slasher classic, starts out like a lat 90's-early 00's teen movie with the kids getting for and then going to their prom. Then things take a turn for the macabre when some lunatic starts bumping off the photogenic teen revelers in order to get some alone time with our blonde heroine.
Next up is
ALL THE BOYS LOVE MANDY LANE wherein out gaggle of horned up teens throw a weekend kegger at a remote ranch. Things start out like any Freddi Prinze movie from 8 or 9 years ago but then all hell breaks loose and some wackjob starts bumping off the photogenic teen revelers in order to get some alone time with our blonde heroine.
So what we have here is pretty much the same movie, right? Right!
Then why does the trailer for MANDY LANE get me all geeked to see the movie while PROM NIGHT's trailer bores me to tears?
Maybe it's because the MANDY LANE trailer just looks cooler. The film is shot grittier and less polished than PROM NIGHT and the murders have a real Tobe Hooper's TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE feel to them.
But the kicker is probably how the use of the old 1960's song
"Sealed With A Kiss" is used to make the proceedings feel so gotdamn creepy.
Of course my anticipation will most likely be rewarded with a movie going experience that is just as shitty as I assume PROM NIGHT will be but dammit I can't help but get excited by that trailer.
