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Sorority Row
- Review Date: September 10, 2009
- R
- Genre: Horror
- 2009
Common Sense Media says
Satirical shadings can't save sorority slasher schlock.
Parents say
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What parents need to know
Parents need to know that this college-set slasher bloodbath is full of gory deaths, mainly impalements. Sexual and erotic elements are graphic and lurid, beginning with a drugged-up "date rape" situation and continuing with casual references to sex as a tool for revenge, status, exploitation, and even commerce (trading sex for pills). Drinking is frequent (one victim is killed with a shattering liquor bottle), and college-level "education" is depicted as one alcohol, sex, and drug-saturated party after another. Profanity is the movie's least raw element, but you can still expect plenty of uses of "f--k," "s--t," and more.
What's the story?
In a setup that echoes I Know What You Did Last Summer (and makes that horror cheese look masterful by comparison), a group of seniors in the Theta Pi sorority pulls a prank on an unfaithful boyfriend during a drunken party, making him think that his lover, Megan (Audrina Patridge), has fatally overdosed during sex. But the stunt goes sickeningly wrong when Megan gets killed for real with a tire iron. The women who were in on the prank are pressured by their haughty, conniving ringleader, Jessica (Leah Pipes), to dispose of the body and keep what happened a secret. Eight months later, at graduation, the guilty girls start receiving ominous phone messages and images, and a figure in a hooded graduation robe starts stalking and killing them, wielding a tire iron tricked-out with blades and sharp points. Is a vengeful Megan back from the dead?
Is it any good?
A remake of the obscure 1983 horror film House on Sorority Row, SORORITY ROW stands out mainly for the cynicism involved -- and not just that of filmmakers who are commercially peddling unoriginal gore-horror leftovers and party-hearty school imagery to impressionable young moviegoers. The movie's campus-bound characters are particularly nasty and practically deserve to be slain (the murderer basically says so at the end), and what little entertainment value to be found here lies in the film's satirical touches -- tongue-in-cheek dialogue (especially from Jessica) that emphasizes what awful people these are and actresses willing to take their bitchy sorority personas way over the top.
Still, the bulk of the movie is just cruel sadism and violent death, not comedy, and it seems to take forever to get to the uninteresting revelation of the slasher's true identity. The usual clichés of violent attacks and characters wandering in darkened basements aren't made any easier by wobbly, dim, hand-held camerawork -- it's as though the onscreen binge-drunkenness spilled over onto the cinematography crew.
What families can talk about
Families can talk about the appeal of horror movies like this. What's the allure of watching young people die in such gory fashion? Many of the victims here are quite despicable -- does that make the material more "entertaining" than "splatter" movies in which relatively innocent people are terrorized?
Why do you think movies set in college focus almost exclusively
on partying, having sex, being stalked, and plotting revenge? Why is that? Parents, ask your teens what
they expect of college.Some of the movie's grim humor concerns the callous attitudes and
cruelties of the cliquish Theta Pi girls. Does the movie send an
anti-sorority message? Is the Greek system really like this?
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Sorority Row is only for older teens and parents you need to know that Sorority Row has a lot of intense violence a lot of sex talk and nudity shown and so many strong language used and a lot of heavy drinking used.
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Kid, 12 years old
August 4, 2011
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Really parents, really
PARENTS STOP LETTING YOU KIDS WATCH RATED R MOVIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ITS JUST WRONG HOW THESE LITTLE 10 YEAR OLD ARE SEEING THIS MOVIE. YOUR BETTER OF LETTING YOUR KIDS SEE PORN THEN WATCH THIS MOVIE. I HAVEN'T SEEN THE MOVIE BUT I THINK ITS BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Meh....
Dumb characters at their worst.The movie is horrible,the acting sucks and yes the violence is always bloody,why can't they make a decent movie nowadays.
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Just skip it.
Okay, nevermind that the content is very inappropriate, but the movie's just terrible. The acting is questionable, the plot twists are predictable, and the deaths are just too gory. And then there's everything else, which is just as wrong. The characters are one-dimensional stereotypical sorority sisters that haven't a clue what's going to happen after their senior year (not that they're going to live past the movie), and it's just really awful. Just skip.
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Horrible
THIS MOVIE IS 2 INAPPROPIATE FOR ANYONE UNDER 18
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Kid, 10 years old
March 27, 2010
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Perfect for tweens!
Love it.
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perfect for older kids
personnely, i love to watch me a good horror movie, but of course when it comes to children and young adults their should be limitations.
Sorority Row is a great time waster and quite entertaining as well, but definately not for your younger ones, 17+ they should be fine, maybe even 16+.
then again its all about the parents preference, parents should check it out first and then give the approval.
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PERFECT MOVIE!
LOVED IT! A VERY GOOD SLASHER SINCE "SCREAM"
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Good for kids 10+.
I like this movie because it shows you if you ever get in a horror movie situation in college tis shows what to ,somewhat, do. Bust TOO much sex,drugs,nudity,violence, and a little gore.
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| Studio: | Summit Entertainment |
| Director: | Stewart Hendler |
| Cast: | Briana Evigan, Leah Pipes, Rumer Willis |
| Genre: | Horror |
| Run time: | 101 minutes |
| Theatrical release date: | September 14, 2009 |
| DVD release date: | February 23, 2010 |
| MPAA rating: | R |
| MPAA explanation: | strong bloody violence, language, some sexuality/nudity and partying |
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