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Prom Night .......No need to be uptight!

This isn't the best slasher film out there, but it is required viewing for all who love the genre. Jamie Lee looks her scream queen best, playing Kim Hammond. Just happens that today is the Prom and 6 years ago to the day Kim's sister was killed falling out a window. That is a bit of a bummer for Kim and her brother but it does not stop Kim from pressing on as prom queen. The real bummer is someone is stalking Kim and her friends. Breaking mirrors, making wierd phone calls and cutting up yearbooks are this psycho's MO. Could it be the slackjawed janitor, the hometown sex offender, or Leslie Neilsen, who disappears before the finale of the movie? Who knows? Who cares! We are here to watch Jamie Lee get down with her bad self. The "Let's show them what we can do" dance sequence makes this movie worth the price of admission. Students of the movie Carrie will find a whole host of similarities. Required genre and cheeseball viewing.

I'm a yankee and I was offended for them. Not everyone from the south lives in a trailer or on a plantation. Nor do they fry every form of food. This contrived love story is saccherine-light fare. You only had to have watched the commercials to know all of the plot and most of the storyline of SHA. We all took bets on who Reese Witherspoon's character would end up with. We all bet the same and we were all right, it was that obvious! SHA is a slightly entertaining love story about a white trash southerner who escaped her past. Her past being a husband she committed to at too young of an age. This left her feeling trapped, so she did what any woman would do. She ran away to New York and become a world famous fashion designer. When the mayor of NY's son wants her hand in marriage she must return to her whitetrash past to get her divorce papers signed. You can guess where it goes from there. Normally I like Reese Witherspoon a lot. She was awesome in Election as well as Pleasentville. J-Lo could have starred in this role. Just replace whitetrash husband with barrio spouse and there you go! I hope in the future Ms. Witherspoon picks the better roles she so obviously has the talent for.

Filmed in what looks like a cornfield in glorious Smyrna Delaware, Redneck Zombies delivers traditional Troma-fare. Somehow a vat of toxic waste makes it's connection with one rednecked family's moonshine. Before you know it......Zombie/Cannibal festival. While this is going down we have a subplot, i.e. potential victims/survivors added to the mix. A group of mismatched folks who look more like the local Smyrna drama club, than a bunch of hearty campers, start hiking through the danger zone. You can probably figure out what happens next. Being that this is Troma there will be lots of blood and guts. The movie, despite being extremely low budget, is generous with the gore. There are some faults to this movie though. A major one being the cheesy 80's computer graphics added in on occasion to create that "bad acid trip" effect. The creators also had a Texas Chainsaw fetish, as seen in the last few moments of the film. If you are into zombies, rednecks, hiking in cornfields, community theater, or moonshine. This may be the movie for you. It delivers what it promises plain and simple.