First time you saw this?

I saw it on NBC in April of 1981 as a young teen and was totally blown away! The network purchased the rights just months after its 1980 theatrical release! That was right before the big VCR/VHS era (and Prom Night was one of the first slashers from that era to feature the movie on video! It also premiered on Cinemax in the early 80's (among the movie channels); I've owned so many versions of this film: the television version with additional scenes and Cinemax version (both recorded on blank videotapes), several VHS versions (the best was Video Treasures Collector's Edition) and two DVD's (Echo Bridge and Synapse).

I loved how Jamie Lee Curtis was the central character whom everyone else was connected through, yet this is her only slasher in which she's not a target character! Her Kim Hammond role was so opposite from Laurie Strode in Halloween; she was still the heroine but as Kim she possessed way more sex appeal and was more interesting because of her relationships with the other characters (Alex, Nick and Wendy especially plus she had parents in Prom Night and friends who actually cared about her (Jude, Kelly and Vicki) whereas in Halloween, Annie and Lynda exploited and used her!

I loved how the killer had an actual motive (revenge) and was sympathetic in the big reveal!

The opening scene of the kids playing that macabre game of hide and seek was the most disturbing aspect of the film!

The disco soundtrack kicked major ass!

Wendy was such a great bad girl and awesome rival for JLC!

And I also liked the fact that unlike other slashers of that era, characters like Drew, Vicki and Sykes weren't killed off just to raise the body count (but Lou and Slick didn't fare as well!).

The list is endless! I've been in love with this movie for 36 years!

I first saw this film on cable TV in the early 1980's.

I've been chasing grace/ But grace ain't easy to find

Summer of 1981 at the drive-in. First feature was The Howling, second feature was Prom Night. Avco Embassy double feature.

I saw it in 2003-ish. Rented it from a Hollywood Video when I was in junior high. I was very into horror movies at a young age and my dad would take me every Friday to rent movies. If I recall, I first saw it on VHS, and later bought that terrible Alliance Atlantis DVD with the really awful print (you couldn't even really see what was going on onscreen).

I loved the movie so much that my dad actually ordered me the Anchor Bay DVD on eBay for a pretty penny (I think he spent $40–50 on it) for my birthday one year. I still have that DVD. I upgraded to the Blu-ray though when Synapse put that out a couple of years ago. The film looks fantastic. It's still one of my all time favorite slasher movies.

I saw it for the first time in the late 90's. It was on television one night, but it was during the prom scenes so I didn't see the whole thing. The next day I asked my mom (I was 9 or 10 at the time) if she could rent it for me when I was in school. She said no, but when I came home it was there. I ended up watching it like five times before it had to go back. It was the Virgin video vhs release I believe.

I saw it on the first tv broadcast, which, weirdly, was just a few months after it had been in the theaters (in those days, movies usually took three years to show up on regular television).

About 1996 on a budget VHS label after reading about it in 'Games of Terror' with 5-6 other slasher films of the era I was hellbent on finding - this was the first one I tracked down.

The cassette was cheap and under lit but the film is gold, even if it takes a gazillion years for the killing to start, it has a... tone that's not present in most films of this type.

Wendy's chase scene is still up there as one of the best in the genre too.

Only downside was that the book had revealed who the killer was, so I didn't get immersed in the mystery element.