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Sorority Row

(2009, Rated R, Horror, Starring Leah Pipes, Briana Evigan, Rumer Willis)
  • Is it age appropriate?

    About our ratings

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    Not age appropriate for kids under 15, age appropriate for kids over 18; suggested age 16.
  • Is it any good?

    1.0
  • Common Sense says

    Satirical shadings can't save sorority slasher schlock.

Themes in this movie include:   friendship, peer pressure, revenge
updated 09.14.09

Why We Rated This iffy for Ages 16–18

What to watch out for

  • Messages:

    The ideas of "sisterhood" and "solidarity" are twisted and corrupted by characters like Jessica. Still, the survivors persevere over the killer in the name of the same sisterhood. College, or at least the fraternity/sorority side of it, is portrayed as a nonstop orgy of drinking, parties, and sex.
  • Role models :

    There's nobody worth emulating here, although the entourage includes some requisite "good" girls who reluctantly go along with the deadly coverup, not to mention all the decadence. The movie's few representatives of the adult world -- a U.S. Senator, a house mother, a therapist -- are depicted as ruthless, corrupt, and sinister.
  • Violence:

    Blood spurts in many stabbings and impalings, chiefly thanks to a customized tire-iron bristling with blades. Shotgun blasts, one character is run down by a car, another's face is hideously burning from within by an incendiary weapon. Heads are bashed and noses bloodied by blunt instruments. Talk of dismemberment.
  • Sex:

    Female nudity (bare breasts) in the shower, a stripper at a party, and revealing clothing throughout -- including one get-up that shows a bare bottom. Talk of "blow jobs." Much additional talk about sex, most of it sordid, including sexual favors for drugs, sex secretly taped for the Internet, homosexual sex (a character is described as an "ass man"), date rape (seemingly condoned), etc. But most sex acts that are initiated are never completed, including a character found tied to a bedpost after an aborted kinky act. A character who turns down easy heterosexual sex is spitefully accused of being homosexual.
  • Language:

    Many uses of "f--k" and "s--t," as well as "hell," "whore," "dick," "laid," "hell," "ass," "damn," "douchebag," "a--hole," "oh my God," and, most of all, "bitches."
  • Consumerism:

    Not an issue.
  • Drinking, drugs, & smoking:

    Heavy drinking, talk of pills. One character is known as "Chugs" specifically for her voluminous drug/alcohol intake. Suggestion that "roofies" (aka date-rape drugs) have been administered. Inquiries about campus drug dealing.
 

What Parents Need to Know

About Sorority Row

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.

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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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  1. I rate this title iffy for age 15 and give it 2.0
    My concerns are:
    • Inappropriate sexual content
    • Drinking, smoking, or drug use
    • Negative message

    Just bad...

    I didn't like it. Started off okay, but didn't pick up at all. It wasn't scary & the whole story was just messed up. Bad messages throughout and lame storyline. I guess it's worth watching once if you're into slasher films, but you will most likely be disappointed if you're over 18!

  2. Teen Reviewer Age 13
    I rate this title iffy for age 15 and give it 3.0
    My concerns are:
    • Excessive violence
    • Inappropriate sexual content
    • Inappropriate language
    • Drinking, smoking, or drug use
    • Negative message
    • Negative role models

    just barley okay on the low end of fine

    not as bad as it sounds no good role modles but some what orignal which is odd since its a remake a very sexy movie if you like this crp id see it.

  3. Teen Reviewer Age 14
    Lives in Georgia
    I rate this title on for age 12 and give it 5.0

    This movie is really good. It contains the BEST DEATH SCENE EVER!!! Seriously. I would watch this movie again JUST for that death scene. Hint to the scene: Liquor bottle. (;

  4. I rate this title off for age 17 and give it 2.0
    My concerns are:
    • Excessive violence
    • Inappropriate sexual content
    • Inappropriate language
    • Drinking, smoking, or drug use
    • Negative message
    • Negative role models

    Buckets Of Terror And Gore.

    I Went With My BFF And We Hated It. It Was A Grisly Movie. NOT FOR ANYONE UNDER 17!

  5. Teen Reviewer Age 15
    Lives in Pennsylvania
    I rate this title iffy for age 14 and give it 5.0
    My concerns are:
    • Excessive violence
    • Inappropriate sexual content
    • Inappropriate language
    • Drinking, smoking, or drug use
    • Negative role models

    Not For Kids

    I loved this movie! I thought it was awesome. but of course, it is definitely not appropriate for younger children.

  6. Teen Reviewer Age 15
    I rate this title on for age 16 and give it 5.0

    i love the previes

  7. Adult Reviewer
    Anonymous
    I rate this title on for age 13 and give it 5.0
    My concerns are:
    • Excessive violence
    • Inappropriate sexual content
    • Inappropriate language
    • Excessive consumerism
    • Drinking, smoking, or drug use

    eating great white sharks fears killers and scary monsters and aliens plain to turn one row of girls into a scared girls great whites plain to eat the row 1 and another the girls never known before that they will be hunted dawn by sharks and the others one girl got eatin by a shark when she was shooting it with her shot gun and that was the only girl with a gun show they had to use the gagets to fight them only they were sending girls to attack them show the gaget did not work the girls found the other gun she shot it and there was no more of the girl fighter show there was only boys show they can use the gagets

  8. Adult Reviewer
    Anonymous
    I rate this title iffy for age 17 and give it 5.0
    My concerns are:
    • Excessive violence
    • Inappropriate sexual content
    • Inappropriate language
    • Excessive consumerism
    • Drinking, smoking, or drug use
    • Negative message

    13 year olds to 16 year olds will get scared when girls get trapped killed and tracked dawn in the movie there is some product placement like apple dell and shoot and stop store the row and the bad guys curse and say mean words and the sex is that the row has a secret tool that makes mean people love them and kiss them and also fights back with a top secret girl power that scars boys and there is lots of drinking

  9. Adult Reviewer
    Anonymous
    I rate this title on for age 16 and give it 5.0
    My concerns are:
    • Excessive violence
    • Inappropriate sexual content
    • Inappropriate language
    • Excessive consumerism
    • Drinking, smoking, or drug use
    • Negative message

    the row is under attack the rulers queens and the kings are not protecting the girls and the allen punched the school and broke it the people the gun store was open show they can use the guns the gun man made the allen pay 100 dollors to get the gun and then the allen went to dell and mc donalds they wanted 103 dollers show he payed and then they attacked the row and shot them they tryed to attack but they were to quick but the one of the girls got her shot gun and she shot the killers that went to dell serched on apple for the best shot gun on google and he said a bad word

  10. Adult Reviewer
    Anonymous
    I rate this title on for age 16 and give it 5.0
    My concerns are:
    • Excessive violence
    • Inappropriate sexual content
    • Inappropriate language
    • Excessive consumerism
    • Drinking, smoking, or drug use
    • Negative message

    • My highlights are:
    • Good role models

    the row are queens of being happy also when your crazy and at the end of being happy killers became killing and sharks became mean and monsters came to earth came to earth to kill one shark ate its trap when the row was going away in the water and they got out of the water and there was a killer in front of the girls

  11. Adult Reviewer
    Anonymous
    I rate this title on for age 16 and give it 5.0
    My concerns are:
    • Excessive violence
    • Inappropriate sexual content
    • Inappropriate language
    • Excessive consumerism
    • Drinking, smoking, or drug use

    sharks and monsters eat the row and killers kill the row when sharks attack that means monsters are coming and the monsters means that killers are coming to kill or eat or attack the row

  12. Adult Reviewer
    Anonymous
    I rate this title on for age 17 and give it 5.0
    My concerns are:
    • Excessive violence
    • Inappropriate sexual content
    • Inappropriate language
    • Excessive consumerism
    • Drinking, smoking, or drug use
    • Negative message

    • My highlights are:
    • Good role models

    the girls fear all evil monsters but they face their fear by making a girl row laser and a girl row boom the monster came that punched the boom it killed them and there was only monster and sharks with jaws

  13. Adult Reviewer
    Anonymous
    I rate this title on for age 11 and give it 5.0
    My concerns are:
    • Excessive violence
    • Inappropriate sexual content
    • Inappropriate language
    • Excessive consumerism
    • Drinking, smoking, or drug use
    • Negative message

    not a kid a preteen or a movie for a 19 year old and under

  14. Adult Reviewer
    Anonymous
    I rate this title on for age 14 and give it 5.0
    My concerns are:
    • Excessive violence
    • Inappropriate sexual content
    • Inappropriate language
    • Excessive consumerism

    there is some jonas some twilight and some the unborn

  15. Adult Reviewer
    Anonymous
    I rate this title iffy for age 10 and give it 5.0
    My concerns are:
    • Excessive violence
    • Inappropriate sexual content
    • Inappropriate language
    • Excessive consumerism
    • Drinking, smoking, or drug use
    • Negative message

    • My highlights are:
    • Good role models

    the images are scary the langage is strong there is lots of girl sex and the partying is funny

  16. Adult Reviewer
    Anonymous
    I rate this title on for age 13 and give it 5.0
    My concerns are:
    • Excessive violence
    • Inappropriate sexual content
    • Inappropriate language

    there was a group of girls that got scared every day

  17. Kid Reviewer Age 12
    Lives in Massachusetts
    I rate this title off for age 10 and give it 1.0

    EWWWWWWWWWWWWW

    THIS MOVIE WOULD BE LIKE IDK STUID AND JUST LIKE OTHER MOVIES

  18. Kid Reviewer Age 12
    Lives in California
    I rate this title off for age 9 and give it 1.0

    Not interested

    I really dont think this would be a good movie

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