Prom Night - Watch Order: Release Order
The Prom Night series functions as an anthology-style franchise centered around the horror of prom night at Hamilton High School, blending classic slasher elements with supernatural and psychological terror. While the films share thematic connections and setting, most entries tell standalone stories with varying tones and approaches to horror.
The series includes the original 1980 slasher, a supernatural subseries featuring the vengeful ghost Mary Lou Maloney (films II and III), a standalone religious horror entry (IV), and a complete reboot in 2008. Note that Prom Night II and III form the only direct narrative connection in the franchise, following Mary Lou's story, while the other films can be enjoyed independently as part of the broader prom night horror anthology.
Prom Night
At a high school senior prom, a masked killer stalks four teenagers who were responsible for the accidental death of a classmate six years prior.
Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II
When Hamilton High’s Prom Queen of 1957, Mary Lou Maloney is killed by her jilted boyfriend, she comes back for revenge thirty years later.
Prom Night III: The Last Kiss
Mary Lou, the prom queen burned to death by her boyfriend back in the fifties, has escaped from hell and is once again walking the hallways of Hamilton High School, looking for blood.
Prom Night IV: Deliver Us from Evil
Thirty years after slashing a Hamilton High couple on Prom Night 1957, psychotic priest Father Jonas gets loose from the chapel basement where the other church fathers had been secretly keeping him locked up and drugged.
Prom Night
Donna's senior prom is supposed to be the best night of her life, though a sadistic killer from her past has different plans for her and her friends.
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