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Jul 18, 2025

Pete

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Pete has published a news story:

On This Day July 18, 1980 – Prom Night Premiered in Theaters.

On this day July 18, 1980, Prom Night premiered in theaters and gave horror fans a chilling new reason to fear the high school dance. Directed by Paul Lynch and starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Leslie Nielsen, the film mixed teenage drama with a masked killer plot that helped shape the earliest years of 80s slasher films.

Set in a small town burdened by the memory of a childhood accident, the story follows a group of...

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