Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II
Movie • 1987 • Horror
ReportWhen Hamilton High's Prom Queen of 1957, Mary Lou Maloney is killed by her jilted boyfriend, she comes back for revenge 30 years later. Bill Nordham is now the principle of Hamilton High and his son is about to attend the prom with Vicki Carpenter. However, she is possessed by Mary Lou Maloney after opening a trunk in the school's basement. Now Bill must face the horror he left behind in 1957.
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Is a minor sexualized?
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One scene features two (high school-age) girls in the school shower where we see explicit nudity, and one girl tries to make a move on the other. However, it quickly turns into a tense horror scene once her advances are rejected. It's shot more tactfully than the description makes it sound, and it's clear that Mary Lou in this scene is being predatory, but it's still worth warning for.
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Sweet_Gwendolyn
I'd say no. There is a ghost who is killing people, but it doesn't seem that targeted and it definitely isn't romantic.
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Is there domestic violence?
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Vicki's mother is essentially a Margaret White wannabe who is controlling. Thankfully, her father is in the picture and is more understanding, and it isn't super dwelled on.
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Are there bugs?
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Vicki sees large cockroaches in a dream sequence in the lunchroom.
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KamiSteele
Vicki hallucinates a boy calling her 'Mary Lou' and pinning her against the lockers in a way that is clearly meant to be sexual. It doesn't go any further, but it may be uncomfortable. Mary Lou-as-Vicki behaves in a sexually predatory way. One scene has her crawl into an older man's lap and attempt making out with him. Another features her in a makeout session with Vicki's boyfriend, only to tightly grab his groin and harshly insult him in a sexual way. She also tries to kiss Vicki's friend in the shower while they're both naked, and after her advances are rejected Mary Lou chases her through the locker room in what's clearly intended to be frightening. A different scene has her make out with Vicki's father. There's also a scene where mean girl Kelly is coerced into giving oral sex in exchange for rigging the prom votes; while it's framed in the movie as a 'mean girl gets her comeuppance' outcome typical of the era, modern viewers may find this uncomfortable.
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Is someone crushed to death?
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One character hides inside a locker, but Mary Lou finds her and crushes her with the lockers using telekinesis. The actual corpse isn't shown but there is blood obviously leaking out.
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Is someone burned alive?
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Happens right in the opening scene, with Mary Lou being set on fire using a stink bomb. It's revisited multiple times after.
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Does a head get squashed?
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A character's entire body is crushed by Mary Lou's powers in a locker room.
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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A character roughly grabs a male character's groin causing pain but no damage.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Paroxysms while being killed by electrocution
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Mary Lou is presumably a minor when she dies, and several other high school students die, as well.
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Sweet_Gwendolyn
It's unclear. A parent is thrown through a glass door and doesn't move immediately afterwards, but it wasn't with enough force to necessarily be fatal. It is also unclear what happens to the other parent who is not pictured after that.
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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Not destroyed, but Vicki hallucinates her childhood rocking horse with moving eyes and tongue.
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Does someone cheat?
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Sort of, while under the influence of magic
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Mary Lou Maloney (the antagonist) is a spirit/ghost.
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Are there jump scares?
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There is one during the climax. It starts with Mary Lou standing at the top of the stairs, before the shot is obscured by a second, more deformed Mary Lou moving upwards and screaming at the camera.
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Is there a shower scene?
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A long and tense scene involving full-frontal female nudity (which notably is NOT sexualized by the director).
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A major plot point is Vicki being haunted by and later possessed by Mary Lou, a malevolent ghost.
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Some cops fleetingly appear at the end to secure the scene, but it's too brief for them to make an impression one way or the other.
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Is there bisexual cheating?
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With a bit of a stretch, you could maybe argue it's there. Mary Lou possesses Vicki, who is already in a relationship with Craig, and makes obvious moves toward other characters, including Vicki's female friend. The conflict is also set off by Mary Lou being caught cheating on her boyfriend with another boy. The main issue here, though, wouldn't be cheating but Mary Lou being an example of the 'predatory bisexual' trope.
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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Vicki increasingly has dark, surreal visions as Mary Lou tries to possess her. Most of them have to do with Mary Lou's life, though a few involve things like being served bugs and worms. Other examples include a greaser guy pinning Vicki against a locker in an amorous way while calling her 'Mary Lou,' a group of girls chanting 'Mary Lou' as Vicki gets wrapped up in a net like a spiderweb, and a rocking horse gaining demonic red eyes.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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One character is killed in a way that looks like a suicide
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Two characters, Buddy and Bill, have lasting trauma from that fateful prom night years later. They don't expressly have PTSD, but are haunted (both literally and figuratively) by the experience.
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Are there abortions?
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No, but a character obliquely states that she needs to decide if she wants an abortion.
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Does a pregnant person die?
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One of the teens reveals she's pregnant shortly before her death scene.
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Are there homophobic slurs?
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One, and it's hard to understand because someone who is possessed is saying it in a distorted voice.
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Mary Lou is an evil ghost whose death is depicted in the opening scene. She appears to fall under the 'predatory bisexual' trope as, while she mostly makes the moves on men, she also hits on Monica.
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Does the black guy die first?
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There are no Black characters with speaking roles.
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Sweet_Gwendolyn
More of a "twist" ending than a tear jerker, but it is a poor outcome for the main characters.
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Barely.
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Is there gun violence?
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(SPOILER) A possessed person is shot, but they are ok once the ghost leaves their body.
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