The Prom (2017)

The Prom is a 2017 American Supernatural Slasher Horror film directed by Drew Goddard and written by Goddard and Joss Whedon. The film stars Richard Jenkins, Bradley Whitford, Amy Acker, Kristin Connolly, Kiersey Clemons, Cameron Monaghan, Bill Skarsgaard, Hannah Marks, Douglas Booth, Tyler Posey, Billie Lourd, Vanessa Morgan and John Boyega.

The film serves as both a surprise sequel and prequel to Goddard and Whedon's previous 2012 The Cabin in the Woods, upon which for the sequel Connolly, Jenkins, Whitford, Acker, Fran Kanz, Brian J. White and Tom Lenk reprise their previous roles respectively.

The film's predecessor did end with the destruction of the world at the hand by colossal dormant gods however the midquel serves to contradict the previous ending as nothing more than a final moments dream by Connolly's returning character Dana Polk.

The film serves as the first collaboration between distributing companies Lionsgate and Blumhouse productions after Jason Blum's approach of Whedon and Goddard for the sequel in 2015.

Veteran iconic horror actress Heather Langenkamp and her husband David LeRoy Anderson return with VFX company AFX studio to helm the special effects, prosthetics and design of the film.

The film's central storyline is divided between the aftermath of the failed 2012 North American ritual with Dana and Marty and the 1998 facility glitch when in place of the Cabin in the Woods ritual set up there was the St. Freudian Hall which is meant to cater to the gathering of five selected sacrificial youths but ends up playing host to a senior prom and offers an out of control massacre situation, revealed to be on the same set up of forest grounds that surround the Buckner cabin from the previous film.