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'Prom Night'

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There ought to be a rule, stashed in the Screen Actor's Guild bylaws, that every actor cast as a villain in a slasher film has to watch "Psycho" and write a paper on Anthony Perkins.

"Psycho Killers with Character: The Tony Perkins Way." Johnathan Schaech could have used a few Perkins pointers. He makes the blandest slasher in years in a desultory remake of "Prom Night," that 1980 dead-teen...

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