Pita Oliver in Prom Night (1980)

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Following the frightening success of Halloween (1978), blood-soaked romps named for key events throughout the calendar year came to dominate the horror genre. In 1980 alone, screens ran red with Friday the 13th, Mother's Day, New Year's Evil, and, of particular interest to teenage audiences, Prom Night. Another key component of the early-'80s slasher-flick bonanza is also on hand in the reliably robust form of Jamie Lee Curtis. Jamie plays the sister of a little girl who died accidentally during a game of hide-and-seek six years earlier. As the season of tuxedo rentals, pinned corsages, and backseat virgin sacrifices looms, the dead kid's playmates start getting offed by a masked murderer. "If you aren't home by midnight," warned Prom Night's ad campaign, "you won't be coming home!" Regardless of the hour, viewers who check out nude Prom queens Pita Oliver and Mary Beth Rubens will be coming. Plenty.