Directed and written by Gene McPherson, The Last Prom is a remake of the 1962 film and it updates it in a way that it kept shocking students for decades. I mean, I know that I saw it in 1988 in my high school.

Sandy Clark (Sheelagh Bevan) may have broken up with her boyfriend, but her friend Judy Grant (Mary LeClair) and her boyfriend Jim Miller (Ron Bohmer) fix her up with Bill Donovan (Jamie Bozian). Soon, they’re at the big event and the boys are getting trashed on vodka while no one is watching and they’re all joy riding and you see where this is going. Nearly everyone is about to die, as this is a slasher movie as much as anything that came out in the golden era of the genre.

Even though Bill caused the crash and killed everyone, he still goes to Sandy’s funeral. I have no idea why this happens.

This film also led to the mock accident that schools put on outside in the parking lot every year. When they did mine, the effects looked so bad and I had begged to be allowed to do them and was refused, as I was told that the levels of gore that I had planned would upset people. Isn’t that the point? Wouldn’t people at prom maybe behave a little better if they had seen a cheerleader’s intestines all over the Lincoln High School teacher’s lot?

I kind of love the ghost images and foreshadowing with the scenes of the bloody van and Sandy’s face heading toward a windshield. It’s shot like a documentary otherwise but man, it sure comes off as the most doom student scare movie I have ever sat through numerous times. If only everything they forced us to do in school was this good.

You can watch this on YouTube.