Horror Night Revisited

Prom Night. It's one of those days that every high school senior either dreads or looks forward to and the economy cherishes. All of those kids spending money on garish outfits, limousines, and corsages, is sure to boost the trading day the NYSE and NASDAQ exchanges.

Hopefully, it doesn't effect this weekend's box office that much though. Yes, Prom Night is the latest in the line of obvious horror flicks where teenagers who played some accidental role in someone's death year's prior get stalked by a vicious killer on what is the best night of their lives, effectively making it the worst.

My question is, can't we stop making a new one of these every year? Why don't studios just continuously re-release 1997's I Know What You Did Last Summer and 1998's I Still Know What You Did Last Summer? It would be easier and cost a lot less. If they don't want promote it as the 10th anniversary re-release they can just change the title each year. I'm sure they'd get more bang for their box office buck from people who are nostalgic to see what teens were wearing and what their hairstyles were like back in 1997 and 1998.

People really only go see these movies to laugh at the horrendously bad plot and poor acting anyway, why not add that third dimension of nostalgia...I mean it's a win win situation for the studios. They don't have to make a new movie...and they can take the money they make to either pad their wallets and pocketbooks or they can spend that money to make something decent that people want to see.

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