History Film / PromNight2008

* EvilTeacher: Fenton was seemingly a normal teacher before becoming obsessed with Donna, later trying to kill everyone else in her life to have her all to himself.

** Detective Winn, the lead detective for Fenton's case, curses [[ObstructiveBureaucrat his superiors]] for not bothering to warn him that Fenton escaped ''three days ago''. On the way to the Hotel, he tells his partner Detective Nash he'd thought the overwhelming evidence they'd brought against the guy for murdering Donna's entire family would convince the jury to give him the death penalty, but the jury decided imprisonment in a maximum-security asylum for the criminally insane was a better idea... [[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong because what could possibly go wrong]]? OhWait.

* StalkerWithACrush: The main reason behind Fenton's actions, from murdering Donna's family the first time around to breaking out and sneaking into the Hotel to crash prom, all to be with Donna again.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: The jury not sending Fenton to DeathRow like he deserved after murdering Donna's family is one of the first dominoes to fall that later leads to Fenton's second murder spree years later.

** The local police know the escaped killer is obsessed with ''one single person'' and though they discreetly post some guys at the prom to keep an eye on her, they elect not to tell her they're watching out for her escaped assailant because it would... ''[[SkewedPriorities ruin her prom night''. More competent police would have hustled her to a more secure location immediately, no matter ''how'' important the event.

** The same detective is later shown cursing [[ObstructiveBureaucrat his superiors]] for warning him that Fenton escaped ''three days ago'', and tells his sidekick he'd thought the overwhelming evidence they'd brought against the guy for murdering Donna's entire family would convince the jury to give him the death penalty, but the jury decided imprisonment in a maximum-security asylum for the criminally insane was a better idea... [[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong because what could possibly go wrong]]? OhWait.

* TheSociopath: Fenton.
* StalkerWithACrush: The reason why Fenton's at the hotel is because he wants to be with Donna again.
* StealthHiBye: Fenton pulls this on Donna a ''lot''.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: As stated above, it's because of the jury not giving Fenton the punishment he deserved that we even have the plot in the first place.

* WouldHurtAChild: As mentioned above, among Fenton's many victims is Donna's little brother.

* AlphaBitch: Crissy, who has been Donna and Lisa's nemesis forever. According to rumour she spent $10,000 over budget on organising the prom and her father had to write a cheque to cover it. A deleted scene has her delivering a rant to her GirlPosse about how the school owes her the honour of Prom Queen.

* AxCrazy: Fenton, albeit in a sinisterly understated way. In the ColdOpen, he was shown yelling and threatening Donna's mother, but on the titular prom night, he calmly and systematically knocks off everyone who gets in his way, one by one. At one point, he even casually asks one of his victims "Why the rush?" as she's fleeing.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler: Averted, very surprisingly. Out of the six main teens, the only two to survive are the FinalGirl and the black guy. Even her LoveInterest dies.]]
* BreakTheCutie: Donna: first her family are murdered, then all her friends, and then [[spoiler: her boyfriend.]]

* EvilTeacher: Fenton. A sexual maniac and a brutal killer.

* FinalGirl: Donna. ''Twice.''

* InNameOnly: The only things this film has in common with the original is the main character's sibling dying in the prologue, a [[HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday killer on the loose at prom]] and a convicted psycho escaping from prison.
* InvincibleVillain: Fenton is this in ''spades''. Coupled with everyone else in the movie being as dumb as a sack of bricks, and despite the fact he's pretty much going out of his way to draw attention to himself, he's ''always'' somehow in the right place at the right time to murder someone and/or avoid being caught.
* JumpScare: The movie overuses these, including a rather infamous example with a lamp.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Fenton is gunned down by the cop who arrested him, who wanted him dead for years.]]
* LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek

* PoliceAreUseless: Kicked around a bit in this film. The head detective is actually shown mentally kicking himself at one point when he realizes that he let the killer ''walk right past him'' [[spoiler: out the hotel's front door, right before the SWAT team tossed the place]] in his PaperThinDisguise [[spoiler: of a uniform he stole from one of the employees he murdered]]. Sure, [[spoiler:they ''do'' finally shoot Fenton dead, but by then, he's killed a ''lot'' of Donna's closest friends.]].
** He's also shown cursing [[ObstructiveBureaucrat his superiors]] for only ''now'' warning him (so he could warn everyone else) that Fenton escaped ''three days ago'', and tells his sidekick he'd thought the overwhelming evidence they'd brought against the guy for murdering Donna's entire family would convince the jury to give him the death penalty, but the jury decided imprisonment in a maximum-security asylum for the criminally insane was a better idea... [[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong because what could possibly go wrong]]? OhWait.
** Also, they know the escaped killer is obsessed with ''one single person'' and though they discreetly post some guys at the prom to keep an eye on her, they elect not to tell her they're watching out for her escaped assailant because it would... ruin her prom night? More competent police would have hustled her to a more secure location immediately, no matter ''how'' important the event.
* PromWrecker: Being a remake of ''Film/PromNight1980'', this trope shows up. In this case, the perpetrator is [[StalkerWithACrush Mr. Fenton]], who attacks at Donna's senior prom.

* SeriousBusiness: The prom for the town, apparently. There's a red carpet, people all holding signs congratulating the kids... In a bit of ArtisticLicense, one teen's wealthy father is even indicated to have rented most of the hotel for this event. Hell, the police are even reluctant to interrupt it over an ''escaped serial killer obsessed with one of the attendees''.

* NiceHat: Fenton mainly uses a baseball cap to hide his appearance from the cops.

* KnifeNut: Fenton's WeaponOfChoice is a sharp knife.

* PaperThinDisguise: Fenton manages to avoid the police partially by [[BeardnessProtectionProgram shaving his beard]]. This was originally a BeardOfEvil, but by no means an all-concealing one, and he only shaves it down to PermaStubble, not clean off.

* SlashedThroat: [[spoiler:Lisa]] and [[spoiler:Bobby]] both have their throats slashed by Fenton.

''Prom Night'' is a SlasherMovie from the year 2008 starring Creator/BrittanySnow, Creator/IdrisElba, Scott Porter, Creator/JohnathanShaech, and Creator/JamesRansone. It is [[InNameOnly an extremely loose remake]] of the [[Film/PromNight1980 1980 film with the same name]].

''Prom Night'' is a SlasherMovie from the year 2008 starring Creator/BrittanySnow, Creator/IdrisElba, Scott Porter, Creator/Johnathan Shaech, and Creator/JamesRansone. It is [[InNameOnly an extremely loose remake]] of the [[Film/PromNight1980 1980 film with the same name]].

''Prom Night'' is a SlasherMovie from the year 2008 starring Creator/BrittanySnow, Creator/IdrisElba, Scott Porter, Johnathan Shaech, and Creator/JamesRansone. It is [[InNameOnly an extremely loose remake]] of the [[Film/PromNight1980 1980 film with the same name]].

* AssholeVictim: Unusually averted in Crissy’s case.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Even though Fenton is killed at the end, Donna’s friends and boyfriend are dead and Donna is more traumatized than before.]]

* InfantImmortality: Averted. Along with her parents getting killed, Donna's little brother got knifed as well (they even show his body).

* CouldhaveAvoidedThisPlot: Winn notes that Fenton wouldn't be alive to escape and murder Donna's friends if the jury at his trial didn't believe him not guilty by insanity.

* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Fenton.]]

* PeekabooCorpse: Happens twice to Detective Winn. First when Michael's corpse falls out of the closet while he searching the suite, and later when he finds the bellhop's corpse in the air vent.

* InvincibleVillain: Fenton is this in ''spades''. Coupled with everyone else in the movie being as dumb as a sack of bricks, he's ''always'' somehow in the right place at the right time to murder someone and/or avoid being caught.

* JumpScare: There's a rather infamous example with a lamp.

''Prom Night'' is a SlasherMovie from the year 2008. It is [[InNameOnly an extremely loose remake]] of the [[Film/PromNight1980 1980 film with the same name]].