The ride to senior prom turns into a living nightmare for a group of unlucky teenagers in writer/director Kazeem Molake’s PROM RIDE, which Vision Films will be releasing onto DVD and VOD just one week from today, on March 15th.
Starring Heather Paige Cohn, Noah Nevins, Victoria Levine, Joseph Rich, Joi Liaye, Deanna Pak, Byron Thomas, and Ariella Rose, PROM RIDE combines traditional cinematography with footage from cameras being handled by the characters and security cameras to tell the story of
best friends riding to the prom together in a stretch limo. On the way, the limo is hijacked and the audience becomes trapped inside with the friends who are fighting to survive.
Their senior prom was to be a night of elegance, rejoicing and celebrating, but when a psychotic killer hijacks their stretch limo, the teens are tortured while being held hostage. Soon they turn on each other for survival. By the end, we learn that one of the teens had been keeping a secret that played a bigger role in their demise.
The killer in PROM RIDE is Molake’s attempt to create a new icon in the tradition of Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees. The mirrored mask they hide their identity with is called the Vanity Mask, “as the idea behind it is for his victims to see themselves one last time before they meet their demise.”
I’m up for giving Molake’s potential icon a chance. Check out the PROM RIDE trailer below and see if the movie looks like something you’d like to watch next week.