DRIVE-IN SATURDAY
For pure horror, few experiences in life can rival the senior prom. So what could be more exciting than a horror film that takes place at the senior prom, right? Wrong. If the movie in question is Brian De Palma's Carrie, you'll probably have a more thrilling time if you stay home, brush up on your glass-blowing, and listen to Tir Na Nog's Greatest Hits.
Carrie to Classmates: "Nya Nya"
by Edouard Dauphin
For pure horror, few experiences in life can rival the senior prom. So what could be more exciting than a horror film that takes place at the senior prom, right? Wrong. If the movie in question is Brian De Palma's Carrie, you'll probably have a more thrilling time if you stay home, brush up on your glass-blowing, and listen to Tir Na Nog's Greatest Hits.
My own senior prom started peaceably enough, to the music of Lester Lanin and his orchestra. But a few minutes into the Last Slow Dance, I provoked a fist fight with a gatecrashing undergraduate and the brawl that followed turned the ballroom of the Hotel St. Regis into a bloody shambfes. To this day, when going crosstowhln Manhattan, I have to avoid 55th Street.