and queen, but Lou and his lackeys tie up Nick, and Lou takes his crown. Mistaking him for Nick, the killer approaches Lou from behind and decapitates him. Lou's severed head rolls onto the dance floor, sending the prom-goers fleeing in horror. Kim finds Nick and frees him. As they prepare to escape, they are confronted by the killer who attacks Nick but not Kim. In the ensuing brawl, Kim strikes the killer's head with the ax. She and the killer stare at each other and Kim realizes his identity. The killer runs outside where the police have arrived. The killer collapses and is then revealed to be Alex, who explains to Kim that he witnessed their sister's death, and that Jude, Kelly, Wendy and Nick were responsible. He cries out Robin's name before dying in Kim's arms. Kim cries over the death of another sibling. Cast Leslie Nielsen as Mr. Hammond Jamie Lee Curtis as Kimberly "Kim" Hammond Casey Stevens as Nick McBride Eddie Benton as Wendy Richards Michael Tough as Alex Hammond Antoinette Bower as Mrs. Hammond Robert A. Silverman as Mr. Sykes Mary Beth Rubens as Kelly Lynch Pita Oliver as Vicki David Mucci as Lou Farmer Joy Thompson as Jude Cunningham George Touliatos as Lt. McBride Melanie Morse as Henri-Anne David Bolt as Weller Jeff Wincott as Drew Shinnick David Gardner as Dr. Fairchild Sheldon Rybowski as Seymour "Slick" Crane Production Development Director Paul Lynch developed Prom Night after a meeting with producer Irwin Yablans, who had previously produced Halloween (1978). Lynch had wanted to work on a horror film, and had initially pitched Don't Go See the Doctor, a film about a physician who murders his patients. Yablans instead suggested that Lynch utilize a holiday as a basis for the film, which resulted in Lynch deciding to build the premise around the event of the high school prom. Writer Robert Guza Jr., a University of Southern California film student of whom Lynch was an acquaintance, had written a story about a group of teenagers whose involvement in a tragic event as children came back to haunt them. Guza's story was then adapted and incorporated into the film as the central premise and motive for the film's villain. While attending a Telefilm Canada event in Los Angeles, Lynch met producer Peter Simpson, to whom he pitched the idea. "I said, 'I'm working on this thing that