Every week, we spotlight a kill that we just can’t get enough of. This is Kill of the Week.
Just three years after the release of Prom Night 2, Mary Lou Maloney was brought back from the grave for 1990’s Prom Night 3: The Last Kiss. Actress Courtney Taylor took over the role for the franchise’s third installment, centered on the spirit of Mary Lou’s quest to win over the heart of a hunky high school student.
Anyone who gets in the way of that, well, they don’t live much longer.
Like the previous film, Prom Night 3 took more than a few things from the Nightmare on Elm Street playbook, doubling down on the surreal kills in a way that was completely nonsensical and totally absurd. The camp factor is high in this one, and the death scenes are nothing if not interesting conversation pieces.
In one scene, a football tossed by Mary Lou turns into a deadly drill in midair, pinning an unlucky student to the goal post. But perhaps the most ridiculous death in Prom Night 3 is the murder of the high school’s science teacher, who is first impaled through the hands by a pair of ice cream cones. Like, almost literally crucified… by ice cream.
Later, we see that Mary Lou has literally turned his corpse into a banana split.
Hey, you have to applaud the bonkers creativity, right?!
