YMMV / Prom Night (2008)

• Cliché Storm: The movie uses a whole lot of horror/slasher and high school cliches while trying nothing new with them. You could play a drinking game for every one you see.
• Complete Monster: Richard Fenton was a former teacher who had a hidden obsession with one of his students, the fourteen-year-old Donna, whom he began stalking and harassing. When he got fired for this obsession and was served a restraining order, Fenton decided to kidnap Donna so he could have her all to himself. To this end, he murdered her whole family, including her younger brother, before Donna managed to flag down the police and they caught him. At his arraignment, he unrepentantly insisted to Donna that she belonged to him and he would return to get her. Three years later, Fenton breaks out of prison just before Donna's prom night, and attends her prom party at a local hotel incognito, murdering most of Donna's friends and anyone else who crosses his path, including some of the hotel staff. When corpses start turning up and the police hustle Donna back to her home for her safety, Fenton quietly murders a cop while sneaking into her house, and slits her boyfriend's throat in his sleep. He then attempts to rape and/or murder Donna before being gunned down by the police.
• Inferred Holocaust: Because the movie ends right after Fenton dies, we have no idea what kind of performance review headquarters handed down to the police force for their sloppy work and the ensuing tragedy that resulted from it, nor do we see any of what must have been a considerable outpouring of grief from the families of the three murdered teenagers and the murdered adults that resulted from this incompetence.
• Misaimed Fandom: There's a surprising amount of fanfic pairing Fenton and Donna, considering the former is an Ephebophile and the latter wants nothing to do with him after what he did to her family.
• Rooting for the Empire: When the police after the villain are as dumb as a pile of bricks, it is kind of hard for some of the hard-core horror fans in the audience not to root for him.
• So Bad, It's Good: How some people view the film. While not remotely scary, the movie is quite goofy and ridiculous in the right mindset.
• The Woobie: Donna. Her hebephile teacher murders her entire family, and then to make matters worse, just as she is starting to recover, he breaks out and murders her closest friends and boyfriend as well.

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