Prom Night is a 1980 Canadian
slasher horror film directed by
Paul Lynch, based on a story by
Robert Guza, Jr., and starring
Leslie Nielsen and
Jamie Lee Curtis. The story concerns a group of high school seniors who are targeted by a mysterious masked killer in revenge for their culpability in the accidental death of a young girl six years earlier. The anniversary of the incident falls on their high school's
prom night, when the older sister of the dead girl is being crowned Prom Queen.