Loyola Greyhound

Issue date: 4/8/08 Section: Arts & Society

Media Credit: movies.yahoo.com The star lists "The Exorcist" and "The Children of the Corn" among her favorite horror films. She did not see the original "Prom Night" in order to create her own character. Snow also stresses that her movie is not a remake of the Jamie Lee Curtis classic.

April is the final stretch for high school seniors. It is the season for graduations, proms, and psycho killers; well at least in a Hollywood prom.

Brittany Snow ("Hairspray") headlines the latest horror flick to hit the theaters. Snow's "Karen" will attend her prom only to have her happiness trumped by an encounter with the man who once stalked her every step on "Prom Night".

The Greyhound was able to talk to the rising star about her latest project and her experiences on the set of her stab at portraying a horror herione.



Q: Did you get to ever go to a prom?



A: I didn't actually. It's funny, because I did this movie and one of the first things they asked me when I went out for the part was, "How was your prom? What was your prom like?"

I told them, "I never went to prom. I was working on American Dreams at the time. I was actually working the day of my prom," but I went to prom on American Dreams and then shooting Prom Night for three months I pretty much fulfilled all of my prom wishes by being in a prom dress for three months straight. I think I had enough of that, so I'm pretty happy with my prom experience I guess, but no, not really.



Q: With horror films they always feed off of intensity. For you playing the lead in a horror film what was the most intense moment for you that you either had to play or get into character for?



A: I think probably there's a scene where I have to view my mother getting killed right in front of me. It takes place when I'm, I think it's, 16 years old, so not only am I playing much younger than I am, but I'm also on the ground, under the bed, watching my mom get killed. Getting into that mentality is actually even worse, I think, than getting chased by a crazy killer or a psychopath, because you're actually viewing somebody kind of getting killed and it's your mother and you're supposed to be 16 years old and still vulnerable. Getting into that sort of head space, I never want to do something that's fake or act in any way that's kind of the cliché version of somebody portraying somebody who's watching their mom get killed, so getting into that head space was not very fun because you don't want to think about those sorts of things, but it was challenging. Afterwards I think it came out okay, so probably that.

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