 Welcome to another episode of frankly forgotten horror movies, but before we get started what are we drinking today? We are drinking Tommy Doyle smashed pumpkin ale Today we are doing another patreon request it is 1987's prom night to hello Mary Lou This one was requested by Stephen Bay. It was directed by Bruce Pittman This movie stars Canadian acting legend Michael Ironside. He was in visiting hours, which we covered And he's also in minefield Which I found on VHS at a value village a couple of weeks ago It's a good find Wendy lion is also in this and she is a Canadian television Mainstay 80s and of Green Gables show The wholesome Canadian show that she shows up in this movie naked and killing people Jesus Louis Ferrera is also in this and he is in a quite a few horror movies He's in saw four five and 3d as well as the dawn of the dead remake the movie starts out in 1957 and Mary Lou is in Confessional and she's confessing to the priest disobeying her mother, which is a no-no Numerous relations with boys right and loved every minute of it, and then she just leaves the confessional We then see at the prom. She's with Billy Nordham She goes and tells Billy to go get some punch and when he comes back She's gone and so he goes looking for behind the stage making out to some other fucking guy drinking some flask We've been going out for a year. We never even made it close to this far Billy goes to the bathroom. He's all His hair is all thinning and everything and he's supposed to be like 17 There's kids in the bathroom pull a prank, right? They've got this it's like a stink bomb the principal comes in and the kids ditched the bomb the garbage And so Billy kind of sees it and he gets an idea and he goes up to like the cat walk above the stage Mary Lou gets called on stage because she's the prom queen Billy lights the fuse throw the stink bomb down The sparks from the fuse light her dress on fire must have been some cheap ass dress As she's burning and dying she kind of looks up at him and sees who it was Yeah, nothing happens to Billy for pulling this prank for burning a woman alive Thirty years later Billy is now the principal of the school We also get introduced to a new character Vicki Carpenter very wholesome girl. So Vicki needs a dress She goes to the prop department at school. There's this big trunk sitting there And she opens it up dress the sash and the tiara She ends up taking everything to art class and that's where she leaves everything for the night Vicki's friend Jess in the arts Overnight finds the sash and the tiara all hell breaks loose all this shit goes flying everywhere And there's one of those slicers Teasing you right gets thrown up over a beam and hung and then she gets thrown out a window Everyone believes this to be a suicide because Jess just found out She was pregnant distraught because her friend just committed suicide or so she thinks starts having all these weird Visions and hallucinations. I just got this rocking horse thing And it starts like looking at her and her blankets come all super tight across her body And you can see these hands start to groper and everything grabs the radium throws it at that rocking horse Vicki's super religious mom makes her go to confessional one day. She mentions Mary Lou This kind of sparked something in the priest and we find out that this priest was the boy from 1957 that was making out with Mary Lou backstage He grabs his Bible what not and goes to Billy's house want some scotch telling the principal spirit of Mary Lou has come back She's out to get us now Vicki is starting to act very strange This girl starts making fun of her in class and Vicki actually sees that it's Mary Lou making fun of her Slaps her and then oh it's not Mary Lou which is this other kid So she's got to go to detention now seeing on the chalkboard Help me being written backwards and she goes up to the chalkboard to get a closer look and these arms pour into the chalkboard When she comes out, she's like a different person. She's now fully possessed by Mary Lou So she goes to confessional and the priest starts realizing this isn't Vicki. This is Mary Lou talking to me Yeah, she busts through the confessional booth and stabs him in the mouth of the cross There is no heaven the worst thing of all no fucking wings Billy has to convince himself that Mary Lou isn't back from the grave He goes to her grave and digs it up Yeah, opens a casket and the priest is in there with that cross Yeah, yeah, that's a pretty good scene Vicki is approached by her friend in the girl's change room Concern you're acting different you're dressing different you're not yourself and Vicki comes up to her in the shower It's the kind of apologize and she starts coming on to her very strange So she runs away and they're both naked it's not too often you see the killer naked in a movie chasing after She's the opposite. Yeah, yeah her friend hides in one of the lockers and she kind of zeroes in on one And you think she's gonna open it, but no she just Crushed by all the other lockers and see the blood come out prom night. She's getting ready for the prom She's got her dress on and she's acting all strained She's on that rocking horse kind of panning it and everything and it's all the horse is even more Her dad comes in wish her good luck for prom night and she starts making out with her dad and the dad isn't like pushing it away The mom comes in like You harlick and starts giving Vicki shit Push your way or anything better go confess right now go confess mother goes flying through the front door Then Mary Lou walks out of the house in his honor way to the prom night That's we're gonna end the plot point so finish watching the prom night to to find out what happens So this movie didn't start out as prom night to hello Mary Lou, right? It started out as something completely different It was originally the haunting of Hamilton high as soon as the execs got a hold of it just before was ready to be released They wanted to attach it to the prom night saga a sequel and people've already seen the original more chance to go see it Yeah, then something just you know Completely new the haunting of Hamilton high sounds very generic. Yeah, it doesn't sound as intriguing as prom night to hello Mary Lou Yeah, it's like it just seems to work So it's just kind of like a different story that takes place in and around the prom night The movie did suffer though from budget issues, right? And it didn't really make that much money another great thing about the movie is the effects Yeah, and that's probably why the budget was so high because the effects are so good that in Michael Ironsides Pay was probably most of the budget out of the 2.5 million. He's like I'll take 2.4 million Well, it doesn't really leave us that much Michael I don't care the effects are great and they're done by Jim Doyle and he also worked on nightmare and Elm Street Yeah, and you can kind of see the parallel like a lot of the effects are kind of similar I have a similar vibe that dreamy type vibe. That's right. Yeah, like coming through the chalkboard. Yeah Oh, yeah looks something exactly like you'd see in nightmare and Elm Street even like the horse You know that that that horse when she starts seeing the horse come alive like it looks really good It's got red glowing eyes, yeah, and it's the tongue is all sticking out It looks scary when Mary Lou starts to be reborn at the end of the movie again That's a great sequence and the effects are really good. The kills in this movie are great teasing with the with that Cutter yeah, I like the tease even though they don't use it's a little disappointing, but the tease is fun Yeah, they expect them to go that route and they don't the locker scene is great The effects for that are pretty cool again the lead-up to it's really good too because you don't expect that When would you expect the lockers to kind of implode on them? So you expect her to open up the locker and do something to her, right? But no, it just looks at the locker boom. Yeah, and how they did that who knows again But great practical effects exactly the kills in this movie Don't lend themselves to typical slasher because that's not what this movie is tease you that it's Maybe there's gonna be slasher type kills and they're still there aren't right. It's all supernatural kills Which is great. It's a nice twist on it. Yeah humor in this movie is really good It's all in the dialogue and the delivery right which seems very natural For the characters girl complaining that she doesn't have a date Yeah prom night and then the guy behind her could have talked to you after class Get lost asshole the one girl wants to be prom queen and she tries to convince the computer nerd to Change the votes to make sure she wins and well, he's got a price Yeah, it's a little bit of action She goes back to her boyfriend after going down on this guy He's all kissing her. He's all like, where'd you get those mince from I didn't feel like it looked Canadian I felt it did because the effects were so good See, I kind of forgot that it was Canadian until they open up that fridge And you see all the LeBat blue beer in there like oh, yeah, it's Canadian. Yeah, there's tons dude And it's all the old-style bottles the 80s bottles Yeah, but I thought the production level of this was top-notch. It was pretty good It looks really good. The effects are great Acting's good. There wasn't like any performances. It stood out as being like the directing I thought was really good and there's a lot of cool shots the door opens and there's all that light Yeah, and then Mary Lou's standing in front of it, you know, like that's cool Yeah, like that's neat and then suddenly she's in front of the guy like just like in a split second And the pacing is good too like it kind of starts off a little slow But then once you get to when she shows up at the prom and you know shit's gonna hit the fan and That ending is great like Michael Ironsides up in the catwalk again And you think it's gonna kind of mirror the beginning a little bit past gonna relive itself And it kind of goes in a different direction. Yeah, but it's just complete havoc. The lights blowing up Neon lights falling and killing people. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's really good. It's like Carrie on steroids yeah breath of fresh air because you're expecting a Slasher type movie like the first one and it's not you know, like you said, it's a supernatural slasher Yeah, and it's it's kind of a slow burn and it's tons of fun Looks good affects your good good acting so we can't knock it and we definitely recommend it until next time keep drinking