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...probably come up with as many examples as I can, but let me remind you of a recent one: television commercials for Prom Night, which is still cleaning up at theaters and drive-ins, showing teenage girls "making themselves beautiful" for that special event, only to encounter a homicidal maniac. (The ads, incidentally, are more successful than the movie, which turns out to be a dull, inept mystery with actresses closer to menopause than high school.) The not-even-subliminal message is Come see the teenage girls get killed! They've got it coming...
...probably come up with as many examples as I can, but let me remind you of a recent one: television commercials for Prom Night, which is still cleaning up at theaters and drive-ins, showing teenage girls "making themselves beautiful" for that special event, only to encounter a homicidal maniac. (The ads, incidentally, are more successful than the movie, which turns out to be a dull, inept mystery with actresses closer to menopause than high school.) The not-even-subliminal message is Come see the teenage girls get killed! They've got it coming...
...have no empathy for the victims in Humanoids, Prom Night, or Friday the 13th-- dubbed by horror novelist Stephen King in a Phoenix interview as a "snuff movie," where the audience waits eagerly for 13 campers and counsellors to be gorily dispatched. The violence in these low-budget horror films signals a new irreverence for the human body: no longer a vessel for the mind or soul but for blood, bone, pus, intestine and anything else that can come spurting, splashing, oozing, or quivering out; a source of irridescent colors, strange and squashy textures, squishing and crunching sounds. Devising these...
...Litko, Deborah Solomon and Joan Webber unfold like used cocktail napkins seeped in ritualized sexual juices at the bottom of a human sink. They go to single bars, they talk about sex as if it were running for president, they talk dirty in bed ("cum tastes like the junior prom...it smells like clorox but it tastes like the junior prom,") and they comment on the sexual revolution ("what do you think this is, the past...
...shuddered at the news: Barbie was turning 20 this season. What would happen to the "teen queen" doll now that she was too old to go to the prom? Would she leave Skipper and P.J. to move in with Ken? Or would she forsake them all for the satisfaction of a career...