At first I wasn't sure what I was watching since Prom Ride spends its first half on silly drama musical antic. After a while it suddenly sprints towards creepy horror scheme. The transition feels awkward as these teens barely go through decent characterization and eventually all the gory gimmicks later on seem like they are done for cheap shock effect.
It opens with usual juvenile antics, and in an ultimate odd direction it shows musical score as the teens dance and sing for a good five minutes. Mixed with incessant babbling, the first half becomes very tedious as though it's seemingly lost on romcom drama genre. Plot appears fragmented, it doesn't show the characters beyond stereotypical high school students and it's doubtful that audience would care much for them aside from one or two sexual illustration.
The second half trudges with the same confusing manner. Gore isn't believable, which makes the disorganized narrative even sillier. Visual has no clear direction either as it cripplingly shifts between found footage and usual third person with no merit on doing so. What dread it has is without concrete motives, the plot twist is forced and none of the actors have the ability to deliver the shoddy narrative.
It tries to deliver depravity among friend just like Unfriended did, but it lacks any solid consistency. Prom Ride is a movie that smashes many different genres and plots, then futilely try to pieces its broken fragments to create any kind of story.
It opens with usual juvenile antics, and in an ultimate odd direction it shows musical score as the teens dance and sing for a good five minutes. Mixed with incessant babbling, the first half becomes very tedious as though it's seemingly lost on romcom drama genre. Plot appears fragmented, it doesn't show the characters beyond stereotypical high school students and it's doubtful that audience would care much for them aside from one or two sexual illustration.
The second half trudges with the same confusing manner. Gore isn't believable, which makes the disorganized narrative even sillier. Visual has no clear direction either as it cripplingly shifts between found footage and usual third person with no merit on doing so. What dread it has is without concrete motives, the plot twist is forced and none of the actors have the ability to deliver the shoddy narrative.
It tries to deliver depravity among friend just like Unfriended did, but it lacks any solid consistency. Prom Ride is a movie that smashes many different genres and plots, then futilely try to pieces its broken fragments to create any kind of story.