Sorority Row

Plot synopsis:
After finding out that her boyfriend Garrett (Matt O'Leary) has cheated on her, Theta Pi sorority sister Megan (Audrina Patridge) enlists the help of her friends and fellow sorority sisters Cassidy (Briana Evigan), Jessica (Leah Pipes), Ellie (Rumer Willis), Claire (Jamie Chung), and Garrett's sister Chugs (Margo Harshman) to pull a prank on him. After Megan fakes her own death while having sex with him, Garrett and the girls bring her to a lake, where they intend to dump her body. When Jessica mentions they need to release the air out of her lungs so her body will not float to the surface, Garrett stabs Megan in the chest with a tire iron, killing her for real. Realizing what they've done, the group dump Megan's body and the tire iron in a nearby mine shaft. Everyone swears to never mention the incident to anyone, much to Cassidy and Ellie's dismay.
Eight months later, the girls are graduating from Rosman University and have put the incident behind them, but Cassidy has grown apart from the rest of the group. During the party held after graduation, the girls all receive on their cell phones a photo of a robed person holding the bloody tire iron. Suspicion immediately falls on Garrett, but Chugs insists he's changed after killing Megan. Maggie (Caroline D'Amore), Megan's younger sister, arrives, wanting to honor her sister's memory by attending the party. Later, Chugs leaves to go to an appointment to visit her therapist. However, upon arriving for her appointment, an unknown figure also arrives and kills both Chugs and her therapist.
Later that day, in the sorority's shower room, Claire and Jessica talk about the night Megan was murdered. After they leave, a sorority girl named Joanna, who overheard their conversation, is murdered. At the party that night, Claire's ex-boyfriend Mickey is attacked and murdered by the killer, which Ellie witnesses while hiding. Cassidy, Claire, Jessica, and Ellie regroup and all receive a text containing the video of Megan's death and a message telling them to go to the mine shaft in twenty minutes or the video will be sent to the police. The girls drive to the mine shaft, and encounter Garrett, who has cut his wrists and begins threatening them.
Thinking Garrett is the one stalking them, Jessica runs over him with her vehicle. However, they discover afterward that Garrett has been receiving the same text messages they have. Ellie suspects that Megan is the killer, believing that she did not actually die and is seeking revenge. To prove that Megan is dead, the girls lower Cassidy down the shaft to check, but instead of finding Megan's body, she finds a message written in blood which reads, "Theta Pi must die". Back at the now empty sorority house, the girls receive a text from Chugs' cell phone, telling them that she is dead. Afterward, Claire is murdered with a flare gun. Searching the house for Jessica's boyfriend, Kyle (Matt Lanter), the girls run into Maggie and their house mother, Mrs. Crenshaw (Carrie Fisher).
After finding out about Megan's murder, Mrs. Crenshaw tells the girls to lock themselves in Jessica's bedroom and to call the police while she searches for the killer. Maggie is horrified when she learns what happened to Megan and, thinking she's the killer, leaves the room to find her and convince her to stop killing. After many failed attempts to shoot the killer in the kitchen, Mrs. Crenshaw attempts to reload her shotgun but is killed by the hooded figure. With no cell phones around, Cassidy and Jessica decide to find Mickey's body and use his cell, telling Ellie to run if she gets the chance. Downstairs, the killer confronts Maggie and after she begs the killer to stop, throws a Molotov cocktail at her, setting the house on fire. Cassidy and Jessica run into Kyle, who injures Jessica after getting into an argument with her. Cassidy and Jessica flee to an under-renovation bathroom where they find Megan's decomposing corpse hanging in a closet.
Kyle finds and attacks them, but is killed with an axe by Andy (Julian Morris), Cassidy's boyfriend. A confused Cassidy realizes that he's the killer after spotting a tire iron on his belt. Jessica regains consciousness and tries to negotiate with Andy, but Andy fatally stabs her. Andy reveals he had hoped for a bright future with Cassidy, but because she was involved with Megan's murder, he feared that she would be found out, so he decided to kill everyone who knew about it. Despite Cassidy's opposition, Andy tells her that they need to kill Ellie, the only other person who knows about Megan's murder. Andy reveals that she was the one who confided in him about Megan's murder and will likely report it the police. Cassidy plays along and tells Andy that Ellie is in the basement
Just as Cassidy fetches Ellie from upstairs, they're discovered and attacked by Andy. Cassidy stuns Andy and escapes, but finds Maggie, who is trapped behind the flames. Andy attempts to kill Maggie, resulting in a fight between him and Cassidy. The floor then crumbles underneath Cassidy, and she is left hanging over the burning basement. As Andy recovers and is about to finish her off, Ellie appears and shoots him with Mrs. Crenshaw's shotgun. He falls backward onto the burning floor, which collapses under him and he falls to his death into the flames. After Maggie and Ellie save Cassidy, the three girls escape from the burning sorority house just as the fire department and other emergency personnel arrive.
Months later, the Theta Pi building is being renovated from the fire and Maggie is now a Theta Pi sister. As the girls sing the Theta Pi song, a man comes into view, holding a garden trowel. The camera pans up to his wrist, revealing scars, implying that Garrett is still alive.

Tags: violence, comedy, murder, prank

Review:
It is well shot, the death sequences are well put together and inventive, there are the comical moments, characters you hate and can't wait to meet there makers and the who is the murderer guessing game.Don't get me wrong the film is not special, it's no Oscar nominee and has so many plot holes it is swiss cheese but what you do get is a fun slasher flick that won't let you down as long as you don't expect too much from it..
Sorority Row has a typical slasher film setup, some hokey dialog, and the usual MTV-style direction, but it manages to build some good suspense and action throughout its interesting plot.
Sorority Row seems to be receiving a lot of bad press for the same reasons that all slasher flicks seem to garner - it's clichéd, the characters aren't likable, the plot isn't handled well, the set-up is botched, blah blah blah.
The other 2 VERY good reasons to watch this movie are as follows: gratuitous cat fights (in a burning house with a psycho killer running around none-the-less!) and Carrie Fisher blowing her kitchen to smithereens with a shot gun, all the while taunting the masked killer with lines such as "Come to Mama."All in all, Sorority Row is not a good film but it is sheer entertainment.
I mean sure some of them may have been a little stereotypical at times, some of them may have been just like the girls in every slasher movie from the last 15 years, but the dialog is actually handled in a very witty way.
A group of sorority sisters find themselves the target of a maniacal killer in retaliation for their involvement in a prank gone wrong on one of their friends and must survive the attacks before they're all killed off.A lot better remake than initially expected, as it appears to be a glossy-looking, safe slasher that intends to tease rather than deliver, ably demonstrated by the rather low amount of nudity and sleaze offered despite their being not only one but two drunken college parties and more opportunities spread throughout the running time that would've been nice to show off a little more than it did, but also applying to the gore as well with it's rather lame-looking CGI bloodspurts that aren't nearly as much as what would've been unleashed had the kill actually gone down as it should've, yet the stalking in here is rather good with numerous chilling spots, the finale chasing has plenty of action and a nice recurrence of the old burning-down-the-house spirit so common in the Corman/Poe classics and a rather novel killer identity revelation that works really well.
Like the first series of Skins everything is spicy and elegant with colourful unknown protagonists.From Bruce Willis' daughter to Step Up 2 star Briana Evigan we see a collection of attractive personalities engage in a sorority gathering and when a sexual prank goes from bad to worse in the middle of nowhere we dive right into gritty drama.The dialogue in this sequence feels quite ordinary, as if plugged straight from any other horror.
During the big end of the year graduation party, a cloaked killer starts offing the sisters, and their boyfriends, one by one.Unlike 2005's dreadful 'Black Christmas,' another sorority set slasher, this is a fun, fast paced, gory whodunit filled with well rounded (for a horror film) characters and some actual scares.
If I were to compare Sorority Row to any other movies, I'd say it had the sharp bitchy dialogue of Clueless or Heathers, the almost satirical horror styling of Scream and all the clichés of any 80's slasher film.
The soundtrack and score are interwoven surprisingly well with some great party tunes evolving expertly into some typical but appropriate horror suspense themes.Sorority Row will be ridiculed by many, but if you take it for what it is – a fun thrill ride of a slasher film with a great sense of humour and some very witty characters, you may just enjoy yourself.8/10..
Every night is another party, there are no real consequences or adults, just older kids with family's who have plenty of money to do whatever without supervision....until something bad really happens to them.It is true it starts out very much like "I know what you did last summer" (or any other horror movie where a teens do something stupid and immature, and then try to cover it up), but the quick-witted scrip and GOOD ACTING (yes, good acting, in a slasher film) save this movie from the junk pile.
The actresses in this film were in full-form, showing genuinely their ability to capture what its like to be 21 again, thinking that "we are adults now" but then quickly realizing that they don't even have a clue of how to behave like adults or make good decisions when confronted with the death of their sorority sister after a prank goes wrong.It is the oldest morality-play in the book: people making bad decisions and then being forced to suffer the consequences, that being their own gruesome deaths from a mystery killer.It also didn't hurt that the camera work was excellent as well as the score.
Her sisters Jessica (Leah Pipes), Claire (Jamie Chung), Ellie (Rumer Willis), Cassidy (Briana Evigan) and Garrett's sister Chugs (Margo Harshman) suggest to dump her "body" in a lake and the stressed Garrett sticks the tire iron through the Megan's chest killing her.
Eight months later, in their graduation party, the sisters receive a creepy message with the picture of the tire iron in the beginning of a nightmarish night."Sorority Row" is another rip-off of the franchise "I Know What You Did" and other sub-products of the slasher genre combined with "American Pie", with those sorority houses where the women are stupid sluts and the guys are stupid drunkards.
I have seen the original back in the 1980's and it was called house on sorority row and i think this one is better,more gory and pretty creepy,although not very original but it does have the look of a 1980's slasher flick.the sorority sister come off as snobby types.Carrie Fisher turns up as the house mother.kind of a far cry from her role in the first stars wars films.the plot is a little like i know what you did last summer.i don't think i ever seen a tire iron as a murder weapon before.as one of the girls says;a pimped out tire iron,with blades,Fred Krueger take notes.it is however a pretty good horror film,i enjoyed this almost as much as the much better one missed call.8 out of 10..
A Nutshell Review: Sorority Row. I can't help but to compare this with I Know What You Did L:ast Summer, where one can make a slasher film by assembling a bevy of hot looking girls, never mind if they can act to save their lives, and designing enough innovative ways to make them fall to the killer's weapon of choice.
When the prank goes too far, Megan ends up dead and the girls throw her body in an old mineshaft, and swear never to speak of it again.Eight months later on graduation day, someone wearing a black hooded robe comes to kill off all the girls who knew one at a time.
With it's excessively asinine plot, crazy killer armed with a particularly impractical weapon (a modified tire iron), exaggerated death scenes, a larger-than-normal quota of bitchy, big breasted bimbos (including the obligatory sexy nerd) and their equally obnoxious boyfriends, and a fair smattering of gratuitous nudity, I'm pretty certain that Sorority Row was intended by its makers to parody the countless, moronic, teen slasher remakes that have blighted horror in recent years.
However, it appears that their motive may have been lost on many viewers, who seem to have mistaken the deliberate playing up of genre stereotypes and intentional over-use of dumb clichés for a case of plain, old-fashioned bad movie-making—something which there has been plenty of over the last decade or so.It's a shame, because when armed with the knowledge that much of the film's apparent awfulness is by design, one can have quite a bit of fun with Sorority Row.The film opens with one of those frat parties that only ever seem to happen in the movies (or maybe I just went to the wrong parties): it's thumping with the latest cool tunes, heaving with physically perfect specimens of both sexes indulging in all manner of hedonistic activities, and overflowing with an endless supply of alcohol.
Is it Megan, back from the dead for revenge, or does someone else have a motive for the rapidly rising body count?What follows is undeniably silly, but as I have said, when viewed with the right frame of mind, it's also rather enjoyable; one can have fun spotting the deliberate attempts by the makers to ridicule the more idiotic conventions of the genre (the over privileged students, the stern but protective den mother, the innocent girl who unwillingly goes along with her friends' plans) whilst also revelling in the brutal violence, ogling the many attractive women, cheering on a shotgun toting Carrie Fisher, and marvelling at just how much Rumer Willis sounds like her mother.It's not a brilliant piece of film-making (if it was, the parodic content would have been obvious to all), but it's not nearly as dreadful as many might have you believe.
The female leads act alright, Cassidy is likable, Jessica a real bitch and Ellie...well, she screams a lot, but Rumer Willis did a good job.There is not that much gore but the whole movie and the killing scenes have a nice pace.
At some point the real sister of the dead girl shows up at the party and she also wants to rush that same sorority.It all ends with some twists and surprises and the obligatory fire with our surviving heroines confronting the killer.Our villain is hooded and has a tire iron-like weapon with knives sticking out that he uses to kill most of his victims.
Like all above average slasher films, this one begins with a moral dilemma: 6 best friends and senior sorority sisters perform a prank at their back to school bash, and it ends in accidental murder.
The plot has the same boring clichés we've all seen--people wander off into the dark alone with no protection; there are ENDLESS stalking scenes; there's the evil rich girl and the sweet one (guess who lives); bloody murders that aren't shocking or interesting; a gratuitous shower sequence to show off nude females and male characters who were hired for their looks and muscular bodies--NOT their acting.
"Sorority Row" is the remake of 1983's creepy college slasher flick "The House on Sorority Row" about the murder of a sorority house mother.It's filled with obnoxious but extremely hot teenage girls,who are viciously slashed to death by a crazed killer.The prank goes wrong during sex and fun filled party and one of the sorority sisters ends up dead.The girls dump the corpse in a nearby mine shaft.Months later someone apparently knows what they did last semester as a robed figure begins taunting them with threats and evidence from the murder scene.And the blood is being shed.The acting by teenage actresses is fine and the killings are creative.The robed killer resembles Ghostface of "Scream" franchise.The comedy/satire aspect of "Sorority Row" is unconvincing and out of place.There is also no real tension found in this teen slasher pic,but if you like cheap laughs sprinkled with nudity give "Sorority Row" a look.6 out of 10..
I think the "slasher" cinema has two variations from the formula, which are very similar but they have an essential difference; in movies like Friday the 13th, Halloween and A Nightmare on Elm Street, the murderer is the star, and his victims are simple sacrifices on the road to the final confrontation between survivor (who is usually a woman) and villain, which offers a few times a slight psychological or emotional ingredient.The second variation keeps in secret the identity from the murderer, so we do not only see how he kills his/her victims, but we also look for clues to reveal the villain and his motives for the killings.Sorority Row belongs to the second group, but it did not leave me satisfied, because it was too boring for me to care who the killer was.Sorority Row is a remake of The House on Sorority Row, a film I have not seen, so I will not be able to make any comparisons.However, it will be unavoidable for me to compare it with other films from the same genre, specially on its fails.The story from this film is kinda similar to I Know What You Did Last Summer (anyway, neither this was nor The House on Sorority Row were the first ones in using their premise), but set on the vacuous and irritating university context, something which reminded me to the atrocious remake of Black Christmas.And as well as on that film, Sorority Row shows us young actresses trying to create drama and emotion with their stupid internal conflicts and insipid discussions.The result is something like a bad episode of Gossip Girl or 90210, but with more blood and less obsession for fashionable clothes.The characters are extremely antipathetic, and the actors (Rumer Willis specially) do not seem very interested in them, so I did not care too much if they died or not.Besides, Stewart Hendler (who had left me a pretty good impression with his previous -and first- movie Whisper)'s direction helps to sabotage the narrative with excessive close-ups and poor edition, which make what happens on various scenes difficult to understand.In summary, I cannot recommend Sorority Row, because it is boring and pretty mediocre..
Although Rumer Willis (yes, daughter of), who plays nervous Ellie, tries in an interview to elevate the film to a study of the consequences of sin, there's no way this is anything but a weak slasher movie that uses every horror trope to almost no effect (we've always known an unaccompanied trip to the basement is not a good idea nor a shower with no one else in the other stalls, etc.).Leah Pipes does well as Jessica, the leader of the pack: She has the right mix of indifference and nerve to invoke laughs and admiration as a new feminist who is bold, beautiful, and ambitious.
This movie was meant to be a remake of The House on Sorority Row (1983), which is so what of a forgotten slashers movie form the 8O'S , Which I found really fun and Cheese movie, Which I rated 7 out of 10.This movie nothing like Original at all at this a remake of the not so forgotten movie I Know What You Did Last Summer.The Girls plan a prank on one there boyfriends but they go to far as prank backfires on them.Sooner then later they are being killed off One by one by someone.
With Megan's body hidden in a mineshaft and Garrett now under psychiatric care it seems that Jessica and her girlfriends have gotten away with murder as long as they Ellie Clair Cassidy & Chugs, Rumer Willis Jamie Chung Briana Evigal & Margo Harshman, keep their mouths shut about the entire incident.It's now eight months later, Graduation Day, after Megan's death and strange things start to happen at the collage.
Whaddya know, years later somebody starts killing them off one by one with the silliest weapon I've seen to date in a slasher: a tyre iron, of all things.Directed by a no-name with a fine-line in copying other people's work rather than coming out with a style all of his own, SORORITY ROW is a complete bore.
The horror-comedy Sorority Row -- which is based on Mark Rosman's original screenplay Seven Sisters and the 1983 cult classic it beget, The House on Sorority Row -- follows five members of Theta Pi who cause the death of their fellow sorority sister Megan (The Hills's Audrina Patridge) during a prank gone wrong.With help from Megan's traumatized boyfriend Garrett (Matt O'Leary), the surviving sorority sisters -- the good-natured Cassidy (Briana Evigan), 'Queen Bee' Jessica (Leah Pipes), bookish Ellie (Rumer Willis), Claire (Jamie Chung), and Garret's party animal sister Chugs (Margo Harshman) -- dump Megan's body down an old well at an abandoned mine.
It's really tough not to root for the killer here, which I guess is the sick point of a slasher flick, except that this movie spends enough time trying to make you care that at least the "best" of the sisters escapes death.Yet despite so many drawbacks (not the least of which is its absurd ending and the real killer being a completely unjustified choice), Sorority Row isn't unwatchable.
Garrett & the other four sorority girls decide to throw Megan's body down an old well & make a pact not to tell anyone else for fear of going to jail but eight months later the girls are all sent texts referring to Megans death as a hooded figure starts to kill the girls one by one...Directed by Stuart Hendler this is a remake of the early 80's teen slasher The House on Sorority Row (1983) which I have seen but cannot remember anything about other than someone gets a walking stuck in their throat but I still think it's probably safe to say that it couldn't be any worse then this lifeless & dull offering.
Originally set to be PG the distributors decided to go with an R rating, not that it's that graphic anyway but the extra bit of blood & gore does help.With a supposed budget of about $16,000,000 this was filmed in Pennsylvania, the production values are good but the acting got on my nerves with every character's quite unlikable.Sorority Row feels like I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) only with more girls & nowhere near as good, this is standard clichéd teen slasher with little to recommend it.