More really can be less. Writer-director Mark Rosman’s 1983 “The House on Sorority Row” was a stylish, polished horror picture, an unpretentious and amusing take on the sorority-girls-in-distress genre. Writers Josh Stolberg and Peter Goldfinger and director Stewart Hendler have revved up Rosman’s original script with raunch and gore and reworked it as the far less satisfying “Sorority Row.”
Like so many movies nowadays, “Sorority Row” goes full blast from start to finish with so much action and razzle-dazzle editing that it’s actually hard to follow. As a result, it lapses into that familiar category of movies that go in for lots of fancy obfuscation along the way only to make its story seem all the more simple, trite and contrived by the finish.
High-energy, gruesome killings, plenty of punch and lots of attitude quite likely will be sufficient for the undemanding, yet some viewers may find it a challenge to give a hoot about its people. A clique of Theta Pi seniors have staged a prank that goes fatally wrong for one of their sorority sisters. Forceful ringleader Jessica (Leah Pipes) convinces her pals that they should uphold their sorority’s principles of secrecy and solidarity over such others as truth, respect and honor. Eight months pass, the girls graduate, but at a raucous celebration party held at the sorority house a black-robed figure commences avenging the accidental death of the Theta Pi.
Only Pipes and Carrie Fisher — yes, Carrie Fisher — as the Theta Pi’s canny housemother, have anything resembling defined roles. Top-billed Briana Evigan is cast as the one girl in the group who seems to have a conscience, and she and the young actresses who play the other sorority sisters are attractive, focused and terrifically game. The irony is that the actors in this film are more talented and assured than those in the original film but in “The House on Sorority Row,” Rosman managed to turn the callowness of his cast to advantage. “Sorority Row” unleashes an avalanche of kinetically staged chaos but the effect is a glum turnoff.
Cast & Crew:
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Starring: Audrina Patridge, Carrie Fisher, Jamie Chung, Rumer Willis, Briana Evigan,
Director: Stewart Hendler
Producer: Mike Karz
Writer: Josh Stolberg, Pete Goldfinger
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