Prom Night III: The Last Kiss

There’s little doubt that Prom Night III: The Last Kiss, which is easily as ineffective as its two predecessors, suffers from a pervasively tedious vibe that’s exacerbated by the inclusion of an entirely uninteresting lead character, with the end result an exceedingly awful endeavor that often seems to be daring the viewer to keep watching. Tim Conlon stars as Alex Grey, an average high schooler who finds himself in a whole mess of trouble after befriending the ghost of murdered prom queen Mary Lou Maloney (Courtney Taylor). Infused with an egregiously slow-moving sensibility, Prom Night III: The Last Kiss remains an unusually mundane experience throughout its primarily interminable running time – although, to be fair, the film does boast a few appreciatively imaginative deaths (eg Mary Lou dispatches a hapless teacher with a hand mixer to the face). Such mildly watchable kill sequences are ultimately few and far between the film’s long stretches of sheer tedium, however, and there’s little doubt that the utterly nonsensical finale, which hardly makes a lick of sense, ensures that Prom Night III: The Last Kiss concludes on as anticlimactic a note as one could possibly imagine.

* out of ****