Did anyone else wonder...

Well at 10 years old there wasn't much that he could do, he probably spent the next six years planning just what to do with them until he hit on an idea that would work.

Alex waited until he was a studly Junior & the school's deejay...in other words, the only good-looking, well-built guy in the film who garnered mucho sympathy from the audience unlike the four alternate red herrings or the killers from any other slasher flicks at the time would have! Plus, his motive was believable (REVENGE IS A DISH BEST SERVED COLD!) & he had reasonable access to the movie's primary high school setting, knowledge of his target characters' whereabouts & an almost foolproof plan to wreak havoc upon the perpetrators of his twin sister's childhood demise! One of the best, most underrated "villains" in the genre during the slasher revival era!

I think that perhaps he decided to wait to see if anyone involved in Robin's death had any kind of remorse and was giving them a chance to redeem themselves by telling the truth about what happened, but when that didn't happen, he decided to punish them himself. Not only did they leave Alex and his family in anguish all those years, but they also allowed an innocent (of this particular crime at least) man took the blame for it all those years. Alex had a right to be angry for all of those years, however murder was most likely not the right way to express his anger.

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Good question....

But if it was up to me = and it's not - but don't you think it would have been a better twist if Jamie Lee's character was the killer? Who would have expected that? She was the one that went back for her school books so she would have had to walk past the school again.

Oh well.

and what was up with Wendy - I think the chase scene is great - but she ran to auto shop? She was already heading back to the gym because she just ran UP that same staircase and then ran back down!!

And would those doors be chained and locked? You are having a school function? FRIE HAZARD!!

Okay - I admit I am a fire marhsall's son....

LOL

He was probably waiting so he could be physically fit. But in the end you can tell his mind wasn't all there. Who knows the truth really.


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I'm coming late to this dance, but having just seen it again for the first time in YEARS, I think the reason why Alex waited "So long" to extract his revenge is that this is their senior year (the "Killers", he would be going into HIS Junior year.)So this would be his last oportunity to have them all in one place, and have the "home field" advantage if you will, with his dad being principle he'd have 100% access to the school at any time, and besides graduation day would be an entirely different movie. (lol) I think that Alex has to be the most sympathetic killer in any of these movies, he was seeking revenge for the killing of his twin sister, by a group of people that gave her life no value at all. I agree that it would have been a GREAT twist, if at the end it was revieled that Kim was involved in it too. While the remake of this film is a decent film in and of itself, I HATE that it's a "remake" of this film, this film deserves a remake following the same story line(more or less) but done with the same heart that this movie was done in. that's just MHO.

I just watched Prom Night again today and I think I know the answer. Alex was severely traumatized by this but I don't think he made any real plans to kill anyone at the time of Robin's death. The idea to actually start killing developed over time. I don't think he was getting the grief counseling and mental health care that he needed. I think people were so worried about Mrs. Hammond and just assumed that Alex was mentally okay (like Kim was). Nobody guessed that he was so far gone mentally and still grieving for Robin just as much as his mother was.

The idea to actually kill Wendy, Jude, Nick and Kelly probably began when he saw that they not only went about their lives unscathed, but they had the audacity to make friends with Kim as though nothing happened. Alex must have been outraged beyond words.