Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II
Tags: revenge, murder, flashback

Plot synopsis:
In 1957, seventeen-year-old Mary Lou Maloney (Lisa Schrage) enters a church, where she confesses her sins to the priest (Jay Smith), claiming to have disobeyed her parents, used the Lord's name in vain and had sinful relations with various boys. The pastor tells her that "these are great sins and she should prepare herself for the consequences." Before leaving, Mary Lou tells the priest that she loved every minute of it and leaves her phone number in the confession booth along with a written message: "For a good time call Mary Lou."
Later, at the 1957 prom at Hamilton High School, Mary Lou is attending with rich Billy Nordham who gives her a ring with her initials on it. Shortly after receiving Billy's ring, Mary Lou sends him off to get punch while she sneaks backstage with Buddy Cooper, where the two are found making out by Billy. Storming off after Mary Lou claims she used him, Billy, while in the washroom, overhears two boys preparing a stink bomb and, when the boys abandon the bomb in the trash due to a teacher approaching, Billy grabs it. When Mary Lou is crowned prom queen, Billy, having snuck up onto the catwalk, drops the bomb on her before she is crowned. To the horror of Billy and everyone in attendance, the fuse of the bomb ignites Mary Lou's dress and she dies after going up in flames, but not before seeing that Billy is the one who killed her.
Thirty years later, high school student Vicki Carpenter (Wendy Lyon) goes looking for a prom dress in the school prop room after being denied a new dress by her overly religious mother. While searching, Vicki finds an old trunk containing Mary Lou's prom queen accessories (her cape, sash, ring and crown) and takes them, releasing Mary Lou's Hell-bound spirit. After Vicki leaves Mary Lou's clothes in the art room after school, Vicki's friend Jess Browning (Beth Gondek) finds them and, after wedging a jewel out of the crown, is attacked by an unseen force and hung from a light by Mary Lou's cape. Jess's death is deemed a suicide caused by her despair over her recent discovery that she was pregnant.
After Jess's death, Vicki finds herself plagued by nightmarish hallucinations caused by Mary Lou and she confides in Buddy Cooper (Richard Monette), who is now a priest and, after hearing Vicki's stories, believes Mary Lou may be back. Going to Mary Lou's grave, where his bible bursts into flames, Buddy afterwards tries to warn Billy (now played by Michael Ironside), who is now the principal of Hamilton High and the father of Vicki's boyfriend Craig (Louis Ferreira); Buddy's warnings fall on deaf ears, with Billy refusing to believe that Mary Lou has returned to reclaim her title as prom queen and to take revenge on those who wronged her.
During a detention caused by her slapping her rival Kelly Hennenlotter (Terri Hawkes), who she envisioned was Mary Lou, Vicki is dragged into the classroom chalkboard, which turns to liquid. Taking control of Vicki's body, Mary Lou visits Buddy at the church and, revealing her identity to him, kills him by stabbing him in the face with a miniature crucifix. Disposing of Buddy's corpse, Mary Lou makes over Vicki's body, her new mannerisms and style of dress arousing the concern of Vicki's friend Monica Waters. After confronting Mary Lou in the girls locker room, Monica is murdered by Mary Lou when, after hiding from Mary Lou in a locker, she is crushed when Mary Lou makes the locker collapse in on her, causing Monica's brain to spurt out through the locker ventilation slits.
After Monica's murder, Mary Lou seduces Craig and lures him away under the pretense of having sex, only to knock him unconscious and afterward confront and taunt Billy, revealing her identity to him. Finding the injured Craig, Billy takes him home and knocks him back out when Craig tries to go after Mary Lou. With Craig unconscious, Billy digs up Mary Lou's grave and finds the dead Buddy in the coffin, which prompts him to acquire a gun and head to the prom. At Vicki's house, Mary Lou seduces Vicki's father Walt and is found kissing him by her mother Virginia, who tries to stop Mary Lou/Vicki from leaving for the prom, only to be telekinetically smashed through the front door.
Arriving at the prom, Mary Lou enjoys the festivities while Kelly, in order to become prom queen, fellates tally counter Josh as a bribe. When Josh changes the outcome of the votes to make Kelly winner instead of Vicki, Mary Lou, sensing this, electrocutes Josh through his computer and changes the outcome back. When she is crowned prom queen, Mary Lou goes up on stage, but is shot moments before getting her crown by Billy. Arriving after the shooting, Craig, reaching what appears to be the dying Vicki, is knocked back when Vicki changes into a charred corpse and then into Mary Lou. In the havoc caused by Mary Lou's appearance, Kelly is killed by a falling light fixture and Craig is chased into the school prop room by Mary Lou, who opens a vortex to the Underworld that begins to suck Craig in. Before Craig is pulled through the gateway, Billy arrives and places the crown on Mary Lou and kisses her, apparently appeasing her spirit, which vanishes, releasing Vicki.
With Mary Lou gone, Vicki and Craig leave with Billy, getting into his car. When Billy turns on the radio, Mary Lou's signature song "Hello Mary Lou" plays and Billy, revealing he is wearing Mary Lou's ring (apparently as revenge for killing her in the first place thirty years ago, Mary Lou had possessed him, making him her new host), drives off with the terrified Vicki and Craig.

Review: There seems to be a weird religious edge to it as well, as the girl possessed by Mary Lou asks the priest: "Will you pray for me?...Will you f**k me?" There's a hilarious line from the priest during a funeral, when he comments that the death should remind everyone of violence seen every day in life, on TV, and in films.
Good acting especially by Wendy Lyons as Vickie and Lisa Schrage as Mary Lou. If you like good horror movies like I do rent this one.
Lisa Schrage has the time of her life playing an over the top Mary Lou and Wendy Loyd channels Schrage's rage perfectly during her time "possessed".Not classic cinema but a fun way to kill a couple of hours with a wicked ending..
Clever, inventive, and funny totally non-related sequel to Prom Night takes various elements from just about every horror film and blends them together with successful results.
Wendy Lyon plays blonde-haired high-school goody-two-shoes Vicki Carpenter (just one of several characters in this film blessed with the surname of a horror director) who gradually becomes possessed by the vengeful spirit of promiscuous tart Mary Lou Maloney (Lisa Schrage), who was burnt to death during her high school prom in 1957 as a result of two men fighting for her affections.Before getting down to the messy business of exacting revenge on those responsible for her untimely demise, Mary Lou dispatches a couple of Vicki's closest friends (after all, practise make perfect), causing her next targets—local priest Father Cooper (Richard Monette) and high-school principal Bill Nordham (Michael Ironside)—to suspect that they might be next to die.
At the high school prom, Nordham attempts to stop the now fully possessed Vicki from causing further mayhem, but only succeeds in making the spirit within even more angry, ensuring everyone present has a totally unforgettable night.A non-related sequel to Prom Night, the 1980 Jamie Lee Curtis slasher, Hello, Mary Lou is an entertaining tale of revenge from beyond the grave featuring a grab-bag of supernatural elements borrowed from genre classics such as The Exorcist, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Carrie.The result is a derivative slice of 80s teen horror that is rather light on the gore (why, oh why, didn't they chop fashion disaster Jess's head off like they threatened to do?), but which is still lots of fun thanks to some great performances from a decent cast (including the always superb Michael Ironside) and a couple of surprisingly risqué scenes: Lyon strips off and gives us full-frontal as she hops in the shower with (big) bosom(ed) pal Monica (Beverly Hendry); nasty prom queen hopeful Kelly (Terri Hawkes) gives a blow-job to a lucky computer geek to convince him to rig the evening's voting; and the possessed Vicki not only comes on to her principal and a priest, but also her own father!!!Throw in some Elm Street-style nightmare scenes, the most memorable of which has a rocking horse come to life, and a daft 'shock' ending, and what you have is an eminently watchable time-waster..
While the original Prom Night was a straight slasher film, this time we get a possession/supernatural story.
Lisa Schrage is delicious as the evil Mary Lou Maloney and Michael Ironside is running around in it also as the principal of Hamilton High (always a nice bonus in any movie, this man).
Wendy Lyon (as the possessed Vicky Carpenter) provides some very unexpected full frontal nudity, resulting in a scene featuring the best kill of the movie.
This is why the Prom Night sequels are so embarrassingly bad.The original film entailed a group of children hiding a dark secret that eventually get them all killed, bar one, in a brutal act of revenge.
Some scenes are really bizarre, like possessed Vicky on her rocking horse or the blackboard that turns into a smutty pool, but whenever the script doesn't try to be overly ambitious, "Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II" is harmless 80'entertainment..
This would be a great film on it's own, I don't know why the producers saw it necessary to leach onto the "Prom Night" title when this is actually a totally different movie.
Michael Ironside puts on a great performance in this as the man responsible for Mary Lou's fiery death who later becomes the high school principal and whose son is dating the girl who has been possessed by the spirit of the vengeful Mary Lou. There are a couple of attempts to blatantly rip off "The Excorcist" and some inconsistencies in the story line but all in all this is a fun little flick and you don't need to watch the original to appreciate it since it's a totally different movie..
There's one scene I had to rewind a few times to see again, and that was when Vicki and the other prom queen nominee were talking the day or two after Jess's death, and the nominee said something mean referring to Jess, and Vicki returned with, "You shut your f-ing (don't know if I can curse or not) mouth, you bitch!" That really got me loving the movie.
Michael Ironside plays the principal of the school, the man responsible for the girl's death decades earlier.Sometimes subtitled "Hello Mary Lou," "Prom Night II" (1987) is disconnected from the original 1980 film with Jamie Lee Curtis, although there are some trivial links.
This one discards the disco dancing while upping the ante with the "Carrie" (1976) elements and mixing in components from the first two "A Nightmare on Elm Street" flicks (1984/1985), like the illusions and possession.The original was more of a coming-of-age drama/whodunit with a masked assailant appearing in the last act whereas this sequel is actually a little better in that it adds creative horror pizazz, which some might say makes it "cheesy." In any case, Wendy Lyon stands out as the winsome protagonist who's shown totally nude on a few occasions in the second half which ties-in with the possession angle.If you favor any of those other horror films noted above, "Prom Night II" is arguably on par, although I suppose "Carrie" is superior on a technical level.The movie runs 1 hour, 37 minutes and was shot in Edmonton, Alberta, with other stuff (post-production) done in Toronto.GRADE: B.
Loose sequel to "Prom Night" only uses the same high school, Hamilton High, where another horror takes place as the vengeful spirit of Mary Lou Maloney, who was accidentally killed at her senior prom thirty years previous, is unleashed from a trunk(?!) by Vicki Carpenter(Wendy Lyon) who is dating the son of principal Bill Nordham,(played by Michael Ironside) who, just by one of those standard movie coincidences, happens to be Mary Lou's old boyfriend that she blames for her fiery death.
So evil Mary Lou possesses poor Vicki to destroy Bill, and be crowned senior prom queen, no matter who has to die...Typically violent and idiotic horror exploitation is just another illogical and crass film where the supernatural protagonist has all kinds of superpowers because the script says they do, with no regard to plausibility or coherence, with the ending being the final insult..
HELLO MARY LOU: PROM NIGHT II is such a cheesy film that if you watch it, your cholesterol level will rise exponentially.
The actress who plays Mary Lou, Lisa Schrage, was 15 years too old and watching her play a teenager is bad enough but having her play a teenage girl possessed by the vengeful spirit of dead teen girl is too much.
Watching her vamping it and trying to have sex with anything with a heartbeat (including her dad) was the funniest and yet unfortunate thing I've ever seen.Nevermind that the story is dumber than a box of rocks, nevermind that the effects are horrendous (in the final "Carrie" scene, you can see makeup fx coming off actors' skin), nevermind that the cast is befuddled and embarrassed by it all (Michael Ironside is almost as bad as Schrage), nevermind the cinematography is just plain ugly, nevermind the fact that this awfully titled "sequel" has nothing to do with the first film, HELLO MARY LOU: PROM NIGHT II is pure, unadulterated cheese on the merit of Lisa Schrage's ne-plus-ultra performance.
Her jealous date, who just wanted to embarrass her in front of the school, accidentally set her ablaze.30 years later, nosy goody-two-shoes Vicki Carpenter, opens a treasure chest that contains a few relics from Mary Lou's prom night of 1957.
Mary Lou wants three things above all, revenge for her murder, numerous sexual encounters and to be crowned as this year's prom queen.
Paul Zaza's score should be released on CD,Lisa Schrage should've won an oscar for her Bedazzling Performance as Mary Lou,Wendy Lyon was fantastic, especially in that blue dress, but last but not least is Brock Simpson, HE IS THE MAN!!!!I busted a gut through the whole movie, He was so Funny!!!(He was in all the prom night films and worked with writer Ron Oliver on Liar's Edge.)I mean him and Randy from Scream could become the next Siskel & Ebert!
Or rather possessing Vicki Carpenter (Wendy Lyon) who is dating the son of Bill Nordham (Michael Ironside) who was hurt by Mary Lou 30 years prior on prom night.
In the film, hot-to-trot hussy, Mary Lou, gets her comeuppance when a jilted boyfriend accidentally sets her ablaze during her crowning as Prom Queen.
Thirty years later, she returns to her old stomping grounds to possess a new Prom Queen hopeful and to hassle her old boyfriend, played by Michael Ironside, who just so happens to have grown up to be the principal of their high school.More "A Nightmare on Elm Street" meets "Carrie" than "Halloween" or "Friday The 13th," "Prom Night II" is a quirky but entertaining sequel.
Overall, "Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II" is an entertaining if not odd little sequel that will entertain those who love their '80s cheese dished up with a bit of the strange..
Plenty of scare factor, lots of wonder, "Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II" is one movie that makes the first one, nonexistent.
Eschewing the straight forward minimalist slasher approach of the first Prom Night movie, this sequel in name only goes for a more supernatural, fantastical style more reminiscent of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies with it's dream sequences, reality bending and revenge from beyond the grave plot.
If anything it reminds me to a certain extent of a gender reversed A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 with it's central possession plot, but with less homoerotic undertones, no exploding budgies and no Grady.Hello Mary Lou seems to aim toward being a fun, cheesy horror movie as well as trying to be more serious and creepy.
Lisa Schrage is satisfyingly malevolent as Mary Lou, Wendy Lyon is an adequate and likable lead doing well as the good girl and possessed and Michael Ironside is as fun to watch as ever.If you like cheesy eighties horror you could do a lot worse..
Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II wasn't very scary, but I have to say that it was a lot of fun.
Now it's thirty years later and she's inhabiting the body of a teenage girl, still wanting to be prom queen...at any cost.There's much more to the festivities than a routine slasher film usually offers, plus a great ending..
We skip thirty years later, where it's Prom Night again and Mary Lou possesses a hopeful prom queen Vicki, who stumbles across her chest of gear in the school's basement."Prom Night" was a mildly interesting slasher from the early eighties, but had too many flat moments, but it's unrelated sequel "Hello Mary Lou" improves on it greatly and adds a new spin to it.
I don't know if this or NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3 was released first, but even if PN 2 came out after it still deserves a solid B+ when it comes to innovative deaths and horror (The evil, living rocking horse is one of my faves, to this date.)  Another thing that the viewer should keep in mind is that this film came out with the self-referential idea (There are jokes made in relation to THE EXORCIST.) over a DECADE before the SCREAM series!
This was probably a gag that was missed by any those who disliked the film.Anyways, watch this film and its equally creative (with more black comedy) sequel -- PROM NIGHT 3: THE LAST KISS -- when feel like watching a criminally underrated horror movie of any decade.
High school slut Mary Lou Maloney (Lisa Schrage) dies in 1957 on prom night due to an accidental fire caused by her spurned boyfriend.
It's about a glamorous goody-two-shoes girl next door named Vicki who gets possessed by the spirit of a glamorous 1950's bad girl named Mary Lou, who died in a cruel prank on prom night.
After opening a box down in the school's basement, Vicki releases Mary Lou's spirit - which begins possessing Vicki, and plans on taking revenge as this year's prom nears.This is your typical '80s horror movie, it is pretty cheesy at times but was surprisingly alright for it's type.
The only thing this sequel has in common with the original "Prom Night" is the school, Hamilton High, but other than that, this is just a supernatural horror movie, not a slasher like it's predecessor.
I enjoyed some of the sequences in this movie, especially the scene with Vicki's friend who is killed in the art room by Mary Lou's spirit.
"Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II" took the series in a radically different direction, one of quasi-comedic supernatural horror.
Thirty years later, good girl Vicki Carpenter stumbles upon Mary Lou's tiara in an old store room.
The creepy rocking horse returns for a late moment of incestuous kissing, easily the film's most disquieting bit.The stand-out moment of "Hello Mary Lou" comes after Vicki is completely taken over by the evil ghost.
The final scene, which I will not detail except to say it involves Ironside behind a wheel, much like one scene in Highlander II, effortlessly achieves the fear factor that the rest of the film so desperately tries for.So what else does Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II have to recommend it?
Her spirit then comes back 30 years later via possessing high-school good girl, Vicki Carpenter, to get revenge and have the prom night that she's alway wanted in this (in name only) sequel to the classic Jamie Lee Curtis starrer.Micheal Ironside, usually quite a good actor, seems to sleepwalk through most of the film as Mary Lou's ex, now principal of the high school and every scene he's in brings the film down.
And the girl who plays Mary Lou in Prom Night 3 looks like Monica Lewinsky..
starring: Michael Ironside, Wendy Lyon, Lisa Schrage, Justin Louis, and Richard Monette.plot: In 1957, Mary Lou Maloney (Lisa Schrage) burned to death right before being crowned prom queen.
If you like The Exorcist, Carrie, A Nightmare on Elm Street, or Prom Night, see this movie!.
Poor tenderhearted innocent, Vicki Carpenter(Wendy Lyon), the lonely teenage daughter of a repressed religiously fanatical Catholic mother(obviously modeled after Piper Laurie in CARRIE) and pu ss y whipped father, is invaded by the vengeful spirit of Mary Lou Maloney(Lisa Schrage, a real sex kitten who isn't in this film nearly long enough), who seeks retribution for the one responsible for her tragic demise.
Clearly an 80's spoof of CARRIE among other films, HELLO MARY LOU, PROM NIGHT II is a black-hearted horror-comedy loaded with off-the-wall special effects, taking cheerful jabs at Catholicism, with a priest getting a certain symbol shoved down his throat when Mary Lou, working through Vicki as her host, complains about not even getting wings after her death.
This film is not a squeal or is in any way related to the Jamie Lee Curtis classic.The promiscuous Mary Lou Maloney (Lisa Schrage) upsets her date Bill (Steve Atkinson) at the prom as it seems she has had sex with everyone in school except him.
It also owes a fair amount to Stephen King's "Carrie".We are introduced in Prom Night II to the memorable "Mary Lou Maloney", who plays a main role again in the third film of the series.
Bud (Richard Monette) is now a priest, that terrible night 30 years ago still haunt both Bill & Bud. One day Vicki is looking around the schools basement when she discovers a large trunk which she opens, this turns out to be a bad move as the vengeful spirit of Mary Lou is set free & is intent on claiming her crown as prom queen & in her spare time sets out to avenge her untimely death.
Originally entitled The Haunting of Hamilton High, this film is rife with horror trivia, such as lockers that look exactly like A Nightmare on Elm Street, allusions to Carrie and a character who references The Exorcist.
Mary Lou takes Vicki home and makes out with her father and then tosses her mother through a door.At the prom, evil girl Kelly gives Josh, the geeky horror movie fan, a blowjob in order to win the prom queen crown.
Basically, badass Mary Lou – the best character in the film, gets her just deserves by burning to death in 1957 at her prom and is inadvertently resurrected 30 years later to cause random FX on her old school.Ahhh, the 80s.
~Spoiler~ Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II is actually a much more enjoyable film than the original.
Prom Night II has some good sequences but it mainly borrows its ideas from other horror films most heavily from the "Nightmare on Elm Street" series.
The same thing happened to me concerning "Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night 2" I saw this one for the first time about 10 years ago, and last weekend, I re-rented it, because I remembered it being this great nail-biting horror that was written and acted superbly.