Prom Night III: The Last Kiss

3/29/2023

**_The most all-around entertaining installment of the slasher series_** Mary Lou returns from the Underworld to seduce a male student at Hamilton High (likable Tim Conlon) and wreak more havoc at the school. “Prom Night III: The Last Kiss” (1990) and the previous film, "Hello Mary Lou," "Prom Night II" (1987), are the only installments in the franchise that are directly related in that they involve the malevolent spirit of Mary Lou Maloney. The original “Prom Night” (1980) is a whodunnit slasher with Jamie Lee Curtis while “Part IV” (1991) involves a crazy puritanical priest. Yet all four films (not including 2008's "Prom Night") are connected in that they begin with the 1957 prom at Hamilton High School, near Cleveland, Ohio (this location is clearly established in the original

7/15/2023

In the third, but not the last, entry in the series, the horror is played for laughs. Alex (Tim Conlon) is an average high school student, and he is tired of it. His height is average, his shoe size is average, his grades are average, there is nothing special about him except his relationships with his girlfriend Sarah (Cyndy Preston) and best friend Shane (David Stratton). Luckily, Mary Lou Maloney (Courtney Taylor) has escaped from hell and is headed back to her old high school. Mary Lou was wronged in the past and decides to help Alex. He is soon the star of the football team, making the honor roll, and has the love of Mary Lou to thank for it all. The problem is Mary Lou is killing those who have hindered Alex in the past, and Alex is burying the bodies in the school's football field