Brittany Snow discusses how she coped with Prom Night's negative reviews: 'A lot of good came from that and so I guess it was a lesson in not caring about the results of something,' she said.
Brittany Snow has discussed her reaction to the critical panning of Nelson McCormick's 2008 film Prom Night, a loose remake of the 1980 film of the same name. Snow is now best known to audiences for her role as Chloe Beale in the Pitch Perfect franchise, but also has a starring role in another horror film currently in cinemas, Ti West's X. Snow is additionally soon to direct her first feature film, September 17th, which will star Kid Cudi.
In the 2008 version of Prom Night, Snow plays Donna Keppel, a high-schooler whose entire immediate family is murdered by her former biology teacher and stalker Richard Fenton. On the night of Donna's high school prom, Fenton is found to have escaped from prison in pursuit of Donna. He goes on to kill everyone who gets between him and Donna, including both strangers and Donna's loved ones.
"I’m really glad that I was at an age where there were so many other things that I was worried about as opposed to what critics thought of me. I was 21 and I really didn’t care about what the critics said. Now, in hindsight, in my 30s, I care a lot more I think. But I knew that it did really well at the box office, I knew that it was the number one movie for many, many weeks and I knew going into doing Prom Night that it wasn’t going to be Schindler’s List.
Prom Night was primarily panned not because of Snow's performance but because of what critics perceived as predictability, particularly in contrast to the 1980 original. The lack of a mystery aspect common to slasher films was criticized as turning Prom Night into essentially nothing more than a gorefest with no payoff. The film was nevertheless very successful at the box office, landing at #1 for its opening weekend and grossing almost three times its budget.
Snow's comments speak to the importance of actors maintaining a distance between one's own work and the final product of a film when things don't go quite as well as planned. Though Snow was no newcomer to acting when Prom Night was released, she was still only 21 years old at the time, and so chose to view her time working on the production as a learning experience rather than as a knock to her confidence.
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