Sorority Row

Review by Anthony Morris

Sorority Row seems like yet another dumb slasher film, but wait a minute...

Once you look past the various stock-standard slasher elements there is actually signs of intelligent life in this film. Not that the intelligence is being put to good use.

After all, this is a film about a group of "sorority bitches"
who end up accidentally killing one of their friends in a prank gone wrong (only to have her corpse seemingly drag itself out of the mineshaft they dumped it down and start killing them on their final night as sorority sisters).

So any signs of "smarts" is a definite plus. 

For one thing, it can't of been easy to figure out a plot that explained why the sorority sisters are either in their underwear, taking a shower, or in skanky party dresses for the entire film - but they managed it. 

And it can't have been simple to come up with ways for the killer (who uses a "pimped out" tire-iron to commit the murders - a tire iron being the way the first girl was killed) to kill each and every girl by stabbing them through the mouth.

But they managed it! 

There is some other stuff happening here, including a marginally competent whodunit angle regarding the killers identity and a shotgun-toting Carrie Fisher.

But seriously - you are here to see barely dressed cute girls being menaced by a killer, and that is pretty much all you are going to get.

2 out of 5

Sorority Row
Australian release: 10th September, 2009
Official Site: Sorority Row
Cast: Briana Evigan, Leah Pipes, Rumer Willis, Jamie Chung, Audrina Patridge
Director: Stewart Hendler