Movie Review: Sorority Row

Thursday, January 21, 2010
Synopsis: When five sorority girls inadvertently cause the murder of one of their sisters in a prank gone wrong, they agree to keep the matter to themselves and never speak of it again, so they can get on with their lives. This proves easier said than done, when after graduation a mysterious killer goes after the five of them and anyone who knows their secret.

Starring: Briana Evigan, Leah Pipes, Rumer Willis, Jamie Chung, Carrie Fisher
Directed by: Stewart Hendler
U.S. Rating: R

What it is supposed to be a horror film, turns into something remotely scary. I laughed at some of the key moments of this film, especially at the end. Even though Sorority Row was considered a possible great pop-corn Summer/Fall thriller, it was far from it. The script was bad, nonsense, not scary at all, supported by a cast that was more interested in selling a dumb, plastic image of a bunch of college girls jumping around in their underwear, throwing crazy parties, rude tricks and hiding secrets like they were a dark secret organization. The saddest of all was watching the once beautiful Princess Leia, Carrie Fisher, playing the role of the house mother of the Theta Pi Fraternity.

The film is about a group of girls who plan to play a trick to one of the girl's brother. The trick? They hooked him up to one of the girls, and while they were kissing in a room (being filmed by a video cam), the girl starts convulsing and dies (supposedly). Everything went well until the moment they get to a lonely place and the guy stucks a tire iron in girl's chest. They drop the dead body in a hole and decide to keep the incident as a secret. Few months later, the girls receive a text message with the tire iron used the night the girl died and from this moment on... lots (and I mean lots!) of people start dying. Some of the people killed have nothing to do with the event, some of the people involved in the event the night the girl was killed survived. The script tries to keep some options for your imagination, trying to guess who's the person killing all those involved in that incident, but at the end, it reveals the responsible... someone who has NOTHING to do with the situation. The end couldn't be more surreal: A house burning, several girls screaming their lungs out, machine gun shots everywhere, a house, hot tub and garden in a complete mess after a crazy loud party... and the police and fire department arrives years later?! Besides that, the surviving girls leave the house walking like they were in a beauty parade. I couldn't laugh louder. I could recommend this one for a boring afternoon at home, but honestly, I can't do that to my followers and friends.

What did I like from this movie?

1. I enjoyed the film laughing to all the plastic and dumb situations offered in this film

What did I dislike from this movie?

1. Sad watching Carrie Fisher in this dumb scary college girls film
2. Poor plot and boring cast
3. Horrible end

I would rate this movie with a 1/5


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