Sorority Row Reviews

This movie has enough frights & thrills to make you jump multiple times, but it's not just that that makes the movie for me. What makes this film different from all of the recent mediocre horror films is that it is very much character and dialogue driven. The characters become as compelling as the plot itself and you actually find yourself starting to care about these characters. The dialogue shoots back and forth between the characters and further builds up the suspense until the final revelation. The suspense is very well drawn-out - it doesn't reveal the killer too early and it doesn't make you impatient for the end. The resulting finale is a big bang and not disappointing at all. The acting was also a cut above the rest - I didn't cringe at the lame screams or badly-acted terrified facial expressions because there weren't any. Kudos to all the girls because they gave performances beyond what I expected would be given. This movie doesn't deserve any awards, because it doesn't want any. Thinking about this movie is useless; if you want a movie that makes you think then go catch Inglorious Basterds. This film is meant to entertain, and entertain it did. It's what most horror films today should be. This movie has set a standard which all subsequent horror films (especially teen horrors) should follow. Just let yourself be drawn in instead of attempting to guess who the killer is and ruining the experience for yourself. If you just go in with a blank mind and just leave all you doubts at the door you will enjoy it as it is and not blame it for being what it's not afterwards.

As we all know, this movie about a group of sorority girls who kill their friend and try to keep it a secret. The problem is that they don't try that hard, and they each tell one person that they did it. So, one year later, they are at a rush party and most of them are killed.

Overall the movie is very predictable, and it has a slow pace (there isn't a real death until about 40 minutes in). It's hard to get invested in the characters because most of them are not very likable, only two or three of them are slightly sympathetic. I wanted a particular character to die from the very beginning.

So, like I said, the movie is predictable. I predicted who the killer was fairly early, and could see where it was going most of the time.

This gets a 4 out of 10 because some of the murders were creative. Other than that, the movie has close to zero redeeming qualities, and is just another trashy horror flick that isn't campy or creative enough to be enjoyable. I don't recommend it to anyone.

A group of Sorority Sisters try to pull a prank after one of the girls find out her boyfriend has cheated on her. The prank goes wrong and he ends up stabbing her with a tire iron and so the girls make up their minds that they will dispose of the body and never speak of the tragedy again. Flash to 8 months later, the girls are set to graduate and so the make a toast to their fallen friend saying she has been missing and they hope someday she will be found. After Graduation the girls receive a text message of a tire iron and so they pass it off as a sick prank, but as they day progresses the girls begin to get killed and so they try and come up with a plan that will settle it once and for all.

Sorority Row is a step up from most modern horror remakes, however it does not bring back the classic horror feel because it is still one cliché after another. They built the tension fairly well, and there was the odd glimmer of acting hope in this film. But like most horror film remakes you have the clichés, the predictability factor, and the parties. One thing screenwriters, unless you are intending to have some supernatural aspect added in near the end stop with the whole idea of having your characters think it could possibly be the dead person back for revenge. It is simply the most annoying thing to have the characters yelling and screaming it could be the person they know they killed.

On the acting front you had young girls who were meant to get the young males attention. Yes they were pretty young girls, but that is not the highlight of the film. It doesn’t get the film added points; it does not turn the film from another remake to a horror masterpiece. Perhaps the best acting was from Rumer Willis, most of the others seemed to be content with looking like a pinup and sounding way to overdramatic. Most notable for doing this was Leah Pipes who played Jessica the leader of the Sorority House. She looked too fake and sounded even worse, her voice at times was annoying, and her words just made the movie almost unbearable.

Sorority Row at least tried to bring into effect how one decision can mess up the rest of your lives. It played on doing what was morally correct or lying to protect your image. Sorority Row was a film that had one killer looking for justice for a girl that was a victim of a horrible accident. Sorority Row was about one person taking matters into their own hands and trying to make those who only cared about their own good looks pay. The thing is you smash any hope of trying to convince people that doing the morally correct thing is ok when you pit a cheesy tire iron wielding killer against 5 girls. Convince people with a solid film where the morally incorrect choice actually has an adverse affect on their lives. Horror films have a tendency to kill off the people that react badly or treat other people badly and letting those who are decent loyal individuals live. It has become this way for horror movies to try and teach people that being good always pays off. To most people these have just become cheesy endings to horror films.


What is with endings these days always ending on a sour note, this is probably the fourth horror film in a row that has an ending where a killer is the final shot. The Friday the 13th remake had an ending where Jason was attacking in the final shot, Nightmare on elm Street had Freddy attacking through a mirror and this one had a flash a scarred wrist as the new year of college began. These horror films always leave room for a possible sequel because, and none of them as of yet have an announced sequel or score a high enough audience approval rating to even bother making a sequel. Stop with the stupid ending that makes us wonder about a sequel, because most of the time we just do not care if there will be one or not because the first films are not good enough.