Prom Night III: The Last Kiss is one of those movies I'd been wanting to see for years, but could never seem to get a hold of. Now that I finally have it, I feel somehow cheated--apparently, the two-in-one DVD of Prom Night III and IV features the TV-edited version of Prom Night III! All of the nudity, gore, and curse words have been rudely cut out, and the DVD transfer looks sloppy and terrible. Tim Conlon's nude scene, Courtney Taylor's nude scenes, and many of the deaths have been very rudely trimmed down! Judging from the movie alone, however, I thoroughly enjoyed myself… maybe even more so than the second film. It's been so long since I've seen the second film, however, that I can't really be sure until I pick up a copy of it sometime. Prom Night III: The Last Kiss stars Tim Conlon (Starship Troopers 2, Revenge of the Nerds III), Courtney Taylor, Cynthia Preston, Dylan Neal, David Stratton, and Jeremy Ratchford (Angel Eyes).After being burned to death during prom night in 1957 (from Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II), Mary Lou Maloney (Courtney Taylor) is back with a vengeance at Hamilton High School. This time around, Mary sets her sights on a young student, Alex (Tim Conlon), who dreams of becoming a doctor. Alex is just your average ordinary high school guy in every way imaginable. After she seduces Alex, he gets drawn into her world as the body count rises. As things spin hopelessly out of control, Alex's girlfriend, Sarah (Cynthia Preston), and his best friend, Shane (David Stratton) try to save Alex from the seductive powers of Mary Lou.The acting in Prom Night III is some of the best in the series. Tim Conlon plays Alex with such emotion and overacting that it perfectly fits the comedic overtones of the film. Courtney Taylor plays Mary Lou almost as if she were Lucy from "I Love Lucy", and I would have loved to see her naked! Much like the second film, Prom Night III is a horror/comedy, but much more lenient on the comedy. One of my favorite scenes is where Alex is talking to his parents on the phone and they're speaking some sort of gibberish and he plays like they're having a real conversation. No other film you ever see will have death by jukebox, hair dryer, or projection reel film. The characters are all so stupid and stereotypical that it's hard not to laugh.As for the gore and kills, they were all unique and over-the-top. Since most of the gore was cut out in the version I saw, I didn't enjoy the deaths as much as I could have, but they were all hysterically funny.Overall, Prom Night III: The Last Kiss was a raunchy, hysterical horror/comedy that is not to be missed. Although I didn't particularly care for the ending and concluding fifteen minutes, I did enjoy the rest of the movie, and I would recommend it if you're looking for a good time. However, make sure you skip the horrible edited DVD; just buy the VHS instead.

"Prom Night III: The Last Kiss" is the third installment of the series, following Part II, which was virtually unrelated to Part I. Mary Lou continues her rampage again at Hamilton High School. This time, Mary Lou's ghost falls for a teenage football player named Alex. She begins appearing to him, and she seems to be able to give Alex what ever he wants, when he wants it. But what he isn't aware of is that Mary Lou is an evil spirit, and she begins killing off all of his enemies and rivals, and he ends up losing his girlfriend too. Since Mary Lou is a ghost and nobody can see her, Alex is the only link to the murders and he becomes the prime suspect.I'm not sure if this sequel was intended to be scary or funny, because to me it was a heck of a lot funnier than it was scary. The whole setup of the movie is a bit random, and there are some genuinely funny scenes. Cheesy, but funny. Prime examples of this campy humor are when when Mary Lou appears to Alex at an ice cream stand in the biology classroom, and when Alex wakes up naked in the school and has to wrap himself in a flag. There are lots of gory scenes throughout the movie, but none of it is really taken seriously and the special effects aren't great. The acting was alright, and the plot was unrealistic. But it's what you would expect from a movie of this type.Overall, "Prom Night III: The Last Kiss" is a campy but funny horror flick. It's not scary at all, it turned out to be much more funny than terrifying. It's an okay way to pass an hour and a half. 5/10.

This movie is really bad and the acting by the hole cast is bad and the story line is bad but i have seen worse horror movies like Jack Frost 2: Revenge Of The Mutant Killer SnowMan.In this movie the plots about how Mary Lou has came back from hell once again and she gets a living boyfriend to take to the prom and she starts to kill heaps of people that get in her way.There are some OK gore scenes in this movie like when Mary Lou rips out a mans heart and the scene when she threw a foot ball at a man on the football field and it kills him and he gets pinned up on one of the goal posts.Over all this movie was bad but it is still a fun way to spend an hour and a half and my rating is 3 out of 10.

I'm a bit surprised by all of the negative reviews of this film ...it's got more wit and grue than 90% of the films of its genre and era, yet it's called "crap" (which says little for everything else). Yes, PN3 is very juvenile, but so is the intended audience - the evil heroes of horror of the late 80s and early 90s generally play to such tastes. The male lead is easy to like (the chemistry between he and his girlfriend reminds me of that of the lead guy and his girlfriend in "Fright Night"), as is the actress portraying Mary Lou. The film doesn't pretend to be anything more than a "USA Up All Night" flick, but the dialog, style and gore of the movie are all above average (I think of "Girlfriend From Hell" as the prototypical decent "USA Up All Night" film, and this one is definitely in a class above). The horror just erupts from nowhere in this film, like the scene in which the principal cuts off his finger and wind starts blowing all over, slamming doors shut ...my reaction to this was a big laugh: what a great, madcap way to foreshadow. I love films in which the hell just starts right away and keeps going until the end (Evil Dead 2 is probably the best example of that). And I laughed a lot while watching PN3, but perhaps one needs a rather free - and yet very juvenile - sense of humor to get the most out of it. If you ever snickered at the humor and one-liners of Freddy Krueger, Angela Baker, or even the Wishmaster, you'll probably like this incarnation of Mary Lou. In any case, this film is very representative of its time and genre, in good ways and bad, depending on your take.