YMMV / Prom Night III: The Last Kiss

• Adorkable: The nebbish Leonard can feel endearing to a lot of fans due to his rehearsed, overly formal request for Sarah to got to the prom with him and his silly dancing at the prom.
• Ass Pull: The beginning: Mary Lou is in Hell and her punishment is to.. dance in place with a bunch of other girls forever, which is pretty odd to start with, but it gets weirder as Mary somehow obtains a nail file (despite being chained in place) and said file is somehow strong enough to cut through the steel chain holding her in place, after which she immediately escapes Hell and returns to Earth. What?
• Awesome Moments: Sarah fighting off the inhabitants of Hell with a flamethrower.
• Complete Monster: Mary Lou Maloney, again.
• Designated Hero: Alex has cheated on his girlfriend repeatedly with Mary-Lou, helped assist Mary-Lou in her many murders by covering them up, feels no remorse for all the deaths caused by her and is only worried about how it will affect him, treats everyone around him like crap, and is genuinely just an awful person. He's so awful throughout the film, it makes it quite difficult to sympathize with him and instead easier to root for Mary-Lou when she drags him down to hell, seeing it more as him getting his just desserts rather than a Downer Ending.
• He's Just Hiding: Given the way Sarah screams for several seconds after being impaled, her heart apparently wasn't hit, and she might have only passed out and survived.
• Ho Yay: Between Alex and Shane, as repeatedly pointed out by Phelous in his review.
  Phelous: Our main dumbass is Alex, and he's got a tough choice now - spending the summer with his girlfriend, or his best friend, who he has a totally heterosexual relationship with!
• Special Effect Failure:
  • When Mary Lou attacks Mr. Walker with the electric mixer, he is replaced by an obvious dummy when the mixer exits the back of his head. Not an issue in the TV edit, which cuts that particular shot.
  • Scenes where Mary Lou is consumed by her purple glow effect utilize obvious chroma-keying.
  • Shots of Sarah utilizing her flame-thrower clearly feature optically-inserted flames.
  • After Alex and Sarah seemingly escape from Mary Lou's hell in the '50s car, the faces of the stunt drivers are plainly visible as the car proceeds towards the camera.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Sarah is the Deuteragonist has far more fans than Alex, or perhaps even this version of Mary Lou.Sarah's popularity and Alex's relative unpopularity make some fans wish more of the story had been from Sarah's point-of-view and that her victory over Mary-Lou had stuck.

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