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| FILM DETAILS | Certificate
15 | | Cast
Rumer Willis
Briana Evigan
Leah Pipes
Jamie Chung. | | Directors
Stewart Hendler. | | | Screenwriters | | Running Time
100 minutes |
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Sorority Row (15) Plot
Carnage ensues when a sorority prank goes wrong. Review
A sorority prank misfires, a sister’s corpse gets dumped in a well, and guilty parties get murdered during the big graduation blow-out. A loose remake of the above-average-if-scarcely-A-list 1983 House On Sorority Row, this plays better as a bitchy Heathers-go-to-college black comedy about ghastly kids being mean to each other than it as a horror film.
With its endless party-hearty babble, ridiculous whodunit plot, gruesome but brief death scenes, a few funny lines (nasty sister Leah Pipes steals the show) and a bizarre Carrie Fisher-with-a-shotgun cameo, it’s all slash and no stalk — a relentless series of payoffs without any build-up. A useful working definition of mindless entertainment, down to laughably gratuitous nudity, it only just scrapes a passing grade.
Verdict
Even the gratuitous nudity can't quite save a Heathers-goes-to-college horror that's undermined by a silly plot and clunky dialogue.
Reviewer: Kim Newman
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| Terrible | | | Sorority Row is basiclly a rip-off of other horror films, seen it all before and it's hardly scary at all. The deaths are very brief but bloody, why on earth was Carrie Fisher in it? and why were they are stiff and annoying? I managed to see it to the end, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who has seen these sort of movies before. ... Read More
| | | joanna likes films About me | | 10:04, 23 January 2010 | Report This Post | |
| | | | Terrible | | | Sorority Row is basiclly a rip-off of other horror films, seen it all before and it's hardly scary at all. The deaths are very brief but bloody, why on earth was Carrie Fisher in it? and why were they are stiff and annoying? I managed to see it to the end, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who has seen these sort of movies before. ... Read More
| | | joanna likes films About me | | 10:04, 23 January 2010 | Report This Post | |
| | | | Pointless | | | Kim's spot on with the review here. This is just another pointless remake with a woefully stupid plot and filled once again with wooden teens that you just don't give a shit about. ... Read More
| | | CIRVIRUS64 About me | | 08:19, 09 October 2009 | Report This Post | |
| | | | Soroity Row | | | Me and my mate go to the cinema every week. Up until we saw this film the films we had already seen are briliant. This film however stop the line of great films that we had seen. First of all what the hell is Carrie Fisher doing dropping her standards and acting in this film. The women that should of played her role is easily without second thought is Linda Hamilton. This film should come under the catergory comedy because it certainly wasn't scary. The whole that i was watching this film i was ... Read More
| | | Watchmen About me | | 13:22, 24 September 2009 | Report This Post | |
| | | | RE: Sorority Row | | L: The REAL Bozz
Disagree. If you love the genre then you will be in heaven with this ace flick. Check out Fangoria's review and some of the other genre sites. Newman wouldn't know a good genre flick these day's if it bit him on the arse.
think Emp should move to a percentage based scoring system to solve this problem. For example,
A score of approx. 70% = a mediocre film which passes time only. a good, recommended film you are a fan of the genre.
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| | | spamandham About me | | 15:06, 11 September 2009 | Report This Post | |
| | | | RE: | | L: Giles83
"Carrie Fisher-with-a-shotgun cameo"
"laughably gratuitous nudity"
SOLD!
^ ^ ^ ^ ^
What he said
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| | | spamandham About me | | 15:01, 11 September 2009 | Report This Post | |
| | | | | | "Carrie Fisher-with-a-shotgun cameo"
"laughably gratuitous nudity"
SOLD!
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| | | Giles83 About me | | 12:59, 11 September 2009 | Report This Post | |
| | | | Hmmmmm/... Hmmmm. | | | The girls are all cute and sassy but maybe the film reveals it all.. Sisterssss,,,,, ... Read More
| | | kevinhayden13 About me | | 05:12, 11 September 2009 | Report This Post | |
| | | | Hmmmmm/... Hmmmm. | | | The girls are all cute and sassy but maybe the film reveals it all.. Sisterssss,,,,, ... Read More
| | | kevinhayden13 About me | | 05:12, 11 September 2009 | Report This Post | |
| | | | RE: Sorority Row | | | Disagree. If you love the genre then you will be in heaven with this ace flick. Check out Fangoria's review and some of the other genre sites. Newman wouldn't know a good genre flick these day's if it bit him on the arse. ... Read More
| | | The REAL Bozz About me | | 17:56, 10 September 2009 | Report This Post | |
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