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6E Sun-Sentinel, Tuesday. October 20. 1987 Nina Hagen's music for cosmically inclined Sequel to 'Prom Night' surprisingly entertaining f4" V' MOVIE REVIEW contract But that doesn't especially bother her. once had a dream and this one familiar god, who was probably one of my master teachers, said, 'You should not worry about being on the charts. That's not important' "I have my own strength.

Maybe one day I'll have a big hit and the world will make a big sex symbol out of me like they always do when there's a new chick. Then they will blow up the image and try to cast me away. But they can't do that with me because my strength keeps getting bigger and bigger." Though Hagen has yet to land a new U.S. record deal, she recently recorded a single called Punk Wedding. The song was written for her Aug.

9 wedding to a 17-year-old Spaniard, called Iroquois, whom she met in Rome in 1985. Does she have any apprehensions about marrying someone barely half her age? "Not at all," said Hagen, who now lives on the Spanish island of Ibiza. "It doesn't matter how old people are. It matters if they love each other and have fun with each other. It has nothing to do with age.

To get old is a mental disease." Remarkably, the vegetarian mother (she has a 6-year-old-daughter) insists she is not a rebel. "I don't have a rebellious streak," Hagen claimed. "I have a wish for world peace and the truth. I would like to see a society that will bring happiness to all life forms." will tT ,1 spirituality to a new extreme. stream churches think of her theological views.

"They don't involve the whole truth," Hagen said of most Christian churches. "They close the door to higher experiences that people like Shirley MacLaine have. People who are stuck in a Catholic church, that's OK for them because that's what they need right now." Hagen's music is too unpredictable and off-center to easily gain mass popularity, so it's not surprising that after making three albums for Columbia Records (her last one was 1985 's Nina Hagen in Ek-stasy), she's now without a label By JUAN CARLOS COTO Special to the Sun-Sentinel There are elements of five popular horror films in Hello Mary Lou, Prom Night II. But despite its lack of original material, this film is well-scripted, directed and acted and surprisingly entertaining. In Prom Night IL Mary Lou Maloney comes back for revenge she didn't win the title of prom queen in 1957 because her date, Billy, dropped a stink bomb that accidentally set her afire and killed her.

When Mary Lou's demon spirit (Lisa Schrage) possesses 1987 candidate Vicky (Wendy Lyon), it's time to kill the other contestants and claim the crown. Mary Lou's ghost also wants to get revenge on Billy (Michael Ironside), who is now the school principal, and another guy from that fateful prom, Buddy, who is now a priest, Father Cooper (Richard Monette). You've seen lots of this before. The prom setting and red-haired Lyon remind us of Carrie and its star, Sissy Spacek. However, the climactic prom scene in Prom Night makes the moment in Carrie look like an apple-pie commercial.

Borrowed from Poltergeist is the slimy gel left upon return from a supernatural experiences, as well as lunatic bedroom toys. An exploding gravestone in Prom Night II was first done in Friday the 13th Part VI. A bed with seemingly live sheets and hands, a chalkboard that sucks its victim into its blackness and a mirror that turns into silvery liquid are dreamy images not unlike those in the Nightmare on Elm Street trilogy. And finally, the heavy Catholicism in Prom Night II creates a mystique similar to that in The Exorcist. In addition to a priest's call: "The power of Christ compels you" (Max Von Sydow's ceremonial line in The Exorcist), there's a "Linda Blair, 360-degree neck." But Director Pittman is smart enough to realize he's being de- ir 2 ME I By JON MATSUMOTO Entertainment News Service Critics documenting the emergence of a "new spirituality'' in pop music may have overlooked one of the most cosmic and unlikely examples: German singer Nina Ha-gea Unlike U2, Lone Justice and others who sprinkle their work with straightforward biblical references, Hagen's galactic pantheism embraces everything from Buddhism to Christianity and wraps it all up in a world salvation-via-UFO outlook.

Amy Grant she's not. "It all hangs together," said Ha-gen about her belief in the positive power of both Jesus Christ and alien beings. "Jesus Christ will be the leader of an intergalactic Earth evacuation. We're getting some Earth leaders up there to check the mother ship. The Bible says that the sky will be glorious and Christ will come back to us all.

It doesn't exactly say in a spaceship, but uses other words." Hagen's frank outrageousness is one of the things that endear her to her fans. Her eclectic and eccentric music is similarly outlandish, embracing everything from punk and funk to electro-disco and opera. As a singer, she can mimic the operatic flights of Beverly Sills, the quirky tones of Yoko Ono and the pained growls of Marianne Faith-full. Hagen has been a cult favorite ever since the East German expatriate recorded her first album in LYNYRD SKYNYRD Legend MCA PINK FLOYD Momentary Lapse Ot Reason Columbia H5D v- jw? Nina Hagen, center, takes pop 1979. But it wasn't until she spotted a UFO while in Malibu in 1981 that the connection between flying saucers and religion became a dominant issue in her work and life.

Hagen tunes such as Gods of Aquarius and Flying Saucers and her remake of Norman Greenbaum's Spirit in the Sky all explore this association. Hagen, 32, isn't surprised or concerned that her ideas often are met with skepticism. During a recent phone interview, she prefaced her account of her UFO sighting by saying, "If you don't believe me, I don't care." She also doesn't care what main HEART Bad Animals Capitol SUZANNE VEGA Solitude Standing 1 14' i Dead teens, bad acting: 'The Outing' has it all Hello Mary Lou, Prom Night II Killed on prom night in 1957, Mary Lou's ghost returns to claim her crown. Credits: With Michael Ironside. Wendy Lyon.

Justin Louis, Lisa Schrage and Richard Monette. Directed by Bruce Pittman. Screenplay by Ron Oliver. Violence, gore, nudity. Poor Fair Good Exceent rivative.

When Vicky starts to show signs of her possession, one friend calls it "Linda Blairs-ville." The thread of originality running through Prom Night II is the ghost's 30-year leap, which in some ways results in a yuppie slasher flick. When Father Cooper comes to tell Bill (Billy) that Mary Lou's back to get them, the skeptical principal says, "It was another life, we're different people now." Mary Lou is an '80s ghost, though. At one point, she kills a teen-ager through a computer cable. His Macintosh zaps him to the core. But perhaps Prom Night ITs strongest feature is that for all its rehashing, this Canadian production is simply well-made.

The special effects are skillful and virtually seamless, no makeup falls off actors, Pitt-man's images are compelling and well shot, and he shows a sharp sense for the material. He even even allows a little sensitivity for his characters to creep in. However, for all the filmmakers' deftness with story and visual style, it's a shame they didn't apply their talents to something more original. Juan Carlos Coto is a freelance writer based in Coral Gables. MOVIE REVIEW (No Stars) The Outing A teen-ager discovers a genie that systematically murders her friends.

Credits: With Deborah Winters, James Huston, Danny D. Daniels and Andra St. Ivanyi. Directed by Tom Daley. Written by Warren Chaney.

Violence, gore, nudity. Poor -Fair Good Excellent her beau in a convertible, then films it from above Alex's teenage mate suddenly becomes a 40-year-old stunt driver. The Outing definitely wins the prize for hackneyed horror. Still, its most obvious support of the low-budget horror tradition is that it's simply awful. WHODUNNIT? KEY WEST'S THE PERFECT FANTASY FEST KICKOFF.

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Albert Wallace (James Huston), comes across an Aladdin's lamp, which is brought to his museum after it murders three teens (unbeknownst to him or the police). The lamp comes complete with a matching bracelet to entrance Alex during key moments in the film. Of course, the lamp also has a genie, which, when it appears at the end of the film, is a monsterlike version of Arnold Schwarznegger in The Terminator. During The Outings final moments, the genie chases Alex in a sequence not unlike The Terminator's climax; it busts down metal doors as Schwarznegger's robot counterpart did, and Alex's closing insult before the genie is destroyed (not suitable for print) is word-for-word from The Terminator. Unlike The Terminator, however, The Outing is neither suspense-ful nor terrifying what it is, is contrived.

One of the popular axioms in low-budget horror films is that if teen-agers are making love, or just alone together, they're dead. Forty-five minutes into the film (just about the point when the audience is getting ready to walk out) one of Alex's brilliant friends suggests they spend the night in the museum. So three couples bring their sleeping bags into the basement and the stage is set. There's no tension, no chase, just a distribution of kids to different rooms for systematic slaughter. For most of the film, director Tom Daley refrains from showing us the killer, and substitutes it with flying point-of-view shots.

It's probably best, though, since the actual beast looks like a clump of papier-mache with mouth movements by Edgar Bergen. Besides a museum security guard with a penchant for singing opera (the only interesting character in the film), the sole reason to consider seeing The Outing is to pick out different mistakes by the filmmakers. During a mini car chase, Alex and her boyfriend are pursued by some thugs. Daley, a grossly incompetent director, puts Alex and JANE FONDA'S FITNESS WALKOUT 2 Cassette Set ONLY I CARS DEF Door To Door LEPPARD Hysteria i Eleklta rTllTSSSa 99 mmoi Reg. $20.99 SALE EACH MULTI-PACK CONTAINS A TDK TRAVELCASH COUPON WORTH $00 IN TRAVEL SAVINGS SAVE UP TO 200" ON YOUR NEXT VACATION T-120 HS 4 PACK Movie J7irTrt IT U-T Boynton Beach Mall 736-5166 Coral Square 753-3400 Rentals L3 TATM.